Tall tales and fishing lore from Kiwi fishing personality Cliff Barnes. As he looks back over his adventurous life, Cliff Barnes muses that he must have used up eight of his nine lives while fishing along the Northland coast but, on a recount, concedes he has used up the lot. Among his many scrapes with death was the time his boat was smashed against rocks and sank. Then there was time when he fell overboard and was left fully clothed and treading water as his pilotless boat motored away into the distance.