Today we woke up in the morning and lazed around a bit. Then I made a hot chocolate for my sister and myself. Then I made some toast. After breakfast Dad and I filled up the water tanks on the caravan. This was done by me grabbing the bucket and walking to the drinking water tap. I then filled up the bucket and walked back to Dad. He emptied the bucket into the water tanks and the I went back to the tap to fill up the bucket again. This happened two times. On the third time the tanks overflowed and we used the rest of the water for dishwashing.
After that my sister and I had a game of battle ships. Then we got out the rods and went fishing. I put on a soft plastic in the shape of a beach worm. When we arrived at the beach after a short 1/2 kilometre walk Dad and I started casting our lures. Mum and my sister put on some squid and cast there baits. Dad and I felt some hits on our lines but the fish weren't hungry enough. We moved up the beach while Mum and my sister stayed behind.
Dad had some more hits and soon hooked a small 30 cm Longtom. These fish have very long snouts and sharp teeth.
Then all these Longtom nibbled the entire beach worm off my jighead. Every time I thought these stupid fish were hooked and started reeling they let go of the lure. So I changed to another soft plastic and cast. I felt a couple of good hits but they were probably Longtom. On the next cast I let the plastic sit on the bottom for about 5 seconds and then I flicked the rod. As I was flicking the rod a fish decided that it would take my soft plastic.
My rod was bent over and my reel was buzzing, though I'm not entirely sure that was because the fish was big. I had my drag set very lightly because we were fishing for Flathead. This fish was definitely not a Flathead though because it didn't fight like a Flathead. I reeled, gained line on the fish and after a minute or so saw the fish break the surface about 3 metres in front of me. From what I could see it looked like a good sized Whiting. But then as I wound the fish closer I saw that it had a much deeper body than a Whiting. It was a small Spangled Emperor about 38 cm long. It had swallowed the soft plastic completely and the top of the soft plastic was just visible in its throat. The hook was protruding out just in front of the gill flaps which showed that the hook had gone down a fir way. I took the fish back to Dad and he removed the hook. I tried but I couldn't. After removing the hook Dad released the fish and it swam away as fast as it could. Well I don't blame the poor fish. Having that hook removed from halfway down his throat must have been pretty painful.
After that we went fishing again but didn't catch anything. I didn't cthc anything owing to the fact that the big Longtom kept biting through my 14 pound leader. In the end I just switched to a hardbody lure so that we could have some soft plastics to use in the future. After another hour of catching nothing we walked back to the caravan and had lunch. For lunch we had fresh, crunchy rolls from the bakery. Mum also bought dessert. Dessert was a bit of a Wagonwheel each, a third of vanilla slice and a third of a chocolate cheesecake slice each.
Mum ate the rest of the Wagonwheel because she really likes them. After lunch Dad and I did some soft plastic riggering uppering. Dad tied the loop to attach the jighead to the line, when he was finished with that I tied a surgeons end loop so that we could clip it onto the snaplock on the main line. This was quite a good system as a surgeons end loop is so easy to tie.
After that we went to another fishing spot and this time we took our snorkelling stuff. When we got there we fished a bit. Then I decided that the fish weren't biting and started snorkelling with my sister. We saw all these Garfish and a lot of big silver Sea Mullet. Dad put on his Garfish rig and the Garfish started taking it almost immediately. The trouble was that then hook was bent and the Garfish couldn't hook themselves and neither, for that matter could Dad. After 2 hours of telling Dad where the Garfish were we drove back to the caravan. When we got to the caravan we packed it up and then went inside where mum started cooking dinner. While mum cooked dinner I started writing the blog. Then we had a bit of a break from blog writing so that we could have dinner. For dinner we had some sort of Fritatta. After dinner I finished writing the blog. Then we had dessert. After that I went to bed.
Noi oggi e' andato da pesca.
Io presi un imperatore lustrini.
Sembrava molto bello.
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