The title says it all – this post is all about the boat and fishing – so if you’re not interested then you might want to give this one a miss!
Well I’m happy to say that the boat works really well, and more importantly, it floats really well. We’ve been out every weekend since we got the motor serviced and I think we’re becoming addicted. It’s a lot of fun. Now while the boating has been successful, I’m sorry to say we’ve been total failures at fishing! We have actually caught some fish, but due to our total cluelessness on what type of fish it is, we’ve let some return to their watery home. We’ve also caught some that are too small so they’ve been sent home as well. We were in BCF yesterday so I had a browse through some fish identification books and was all set today – unfortunately I didn’t catch anything to identify. David got a cod (I think that’s what it was, it had bulgy eyes!) but it was too small, so it got returned. This fish had the biggest mouth, which was fully open and his gob was stuffed with some other sea creature – not sure what it was, but it was quite spiney. I thing he was being too greedy in trying to take David’s squid while his mouth was still full and got hooked.
I forgot to take the camera today – so here’s some photos from last weekend
About an hour after these photos a storm started to come in and the waters were like this
We went to BCF yesterday to buy seats for the boat – those aluminium benches are really uncomfortable even with cushions. We also ended up buying a canopy! David fitted them yesterday and we test drove them today – my bum is saying thankyou!
Hopefully we’ll get the hang of this fishing thing and start catching something we can actually take home and put on the bbq. A nice barra, or trevally or something. There’s lots of good eating fish in the harbour, but obviously they aren’t hungry when we go out. Need to learn more about this stuff. And don’t worry, when I catch something it will be posted here – with photos!