Driving my quad bike through the sugar cane fields on my family’s 6.5 hectare farm, I headed towards my favourite fishing spot – a creek on the edge of our neighbour’s property.
It was September 2022, and my mum, Ros, 45, and brother Jackson, 10, were back at the house a kilometre away.
Casting my line, a few minutes later I got my first nibble. What a beauty, I thought, reeling in a huge tarpon fish.
Since I was old enough to hold a fishing rod, my dad, Ben, 45, and grandfather, Col,