Today in the morning I got up and made a hot chocolate for myself and my sister. After breakfast we didn't do much until lunch. My sister and I cleaned our lures that we had left out to soak in water overnight. I think that she has finally overcome her fear of hooks. Dad and I also did some work on our fishing gear. Dad needed to put a hook on one of the float rigs. While he did that I practiced putting a squidgee on a jighead. Its not as easy as it looks. After getting all our gear into top nick we had an early lunch.
For lunch we had wraps and rice cakes. After lunch we packed the car and drove down to the Batavia Marina. When we arrived there was no one there except us. We went out to our spot and started fishing. Dad got a rod set up for my sister and got her hooked on some fish. Within seconds she had caught her first fish. It was a Puffer fish. (What a surprise.) I had a small lure on my line and a bit of squid on the back hook. The Puffer fish were going ballistic about it. I was trying to get my lure down to where we could see these big silver fish. But the lure had no sooner hit the water than one of these pesky Puffer fish would nibble the squid on the lure. In seconds 100 or so of these Puffer fish followed the other one out and they started to tare my squid to bits. I
t was impossible not to catch a Puffer fish. The worst thing was that the silver fish kept trying to eat my bait and lure, but the Puffer fish weren't letting the other fish near it. After a while I gave up and went off in search of something a bit bigger than the 15cm Puffer fish. I walked to the jetty where yesterday I had caught the Snook or Seapike. Today the tide was different and there wasn't any sign of fish. So after 15 minutes I walked back to the jetty where Mum and Dad were. A lot of other people had turned up and were catching Blowies as well. I started to catch the Puffer fish as well.
Pretty soon I released that the Puffers were more interested in my sister's small hook covered in Squid than my lure with squid on the back hook. So I put a big piece of squid on both of the hooks and cast it out far away from the pesky Puffers. Almost immediately I felt a hard couple of tugs on my line. As I wasn't paying attention I was to late to strike and therefore missed my fish.
After the big fish had nibbled all of my bait off I put on more bait and tried to float it out. Meanwhile my sister had caught about one million Puffer fish and 2 Yellowfin Bream. Suddenly I felt a hit and pulled my rod up hard. I jagged the lure into a fish and started reeling. I was winding against the drag for a few seconds but after 10 seconds I had a Buff Bream on the jetty. It was the biggest catch of the day for our family. The Bream was about 17cm long and was flapping around like mad. They are supposed to make good eating but we didn't get to find out. This Bream found itself back in the waster in a matter of minutes.
After catching the Bream I floated my lure with bait on the hooks. The big silver fish turned out to be more Buff Bream.(I found this out later as they came to the surface to eat some bread that we threw down into the water for them.) All the Puffers were busy being caught by my sister, so I had the rest of the water to myself. I cast out my lure again and just let it float down. Just before it went out of sight I saw about 10 of these big silver Buff Bream come in and hit my lure one after the other. The trouble was that they didn't have the hooks in their mouths so I could inly watch as these 1 kilo plus swam away from my lure in utter bewilderment.
Soon after that we went back to the car and drove back to the caravan. When we arrived at the caravan my sister and I washed our lures again. Saltwater makes the lures and hooks rusty so you have to wash the saltwater off. One way to do this is soak them in freshwater. Another way is to put all the lures in a bucket of water and fish them out one by one and wipe them down with a wet cloth. After an hour of washing lures my sister went and had a shower with Mum. I was left to finish washing the lures. After finishing them and packing them away again I went inside and had dinner which was ready just as I came in. For dinner we had Pasta in Alfredo sauce with peas, carrots and corn. After dinner I wrote the blog. Halfway through writing the blog we had dessert. For dessert my sister and Dad had a chocolate milk and sponge fingers. I had five german wafer slices and a small gulp of chocolate milk. My cough is still here so milk is bad for me at the present time. After dessert I finished writing the blog and went to bed.
Oggi siamo andati da pesca.
Ho preso 15 pesci.
Mia sorella catturo il suo primo pesce.
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