Today I woke up at 7:33 AM and wrote the rest of yesterdays blog. After that I made a hot chocolate for myself and my sister. After a quick breakfast Dad went and filleted the Mulloway. After that my sister and I went to visit Fredricka. Then we walked back to the caravan. Then we lazed about until lunchtime. After lunch Mum and Dad went shopping. I stayed at the caravan and did some integrated studies work.
When Mum and Dad got back Dad and I went and hired a boat from the Boat Hire place. These little tinnys are 3.95 metres long and have a 5 horsepower outboard engine. We set off up the river at snails pace. We were going up the channel when the outboard gave a clunk. Dad slowed right down and I looked over the side. The water was barley 2 ft deep! We motored up with care until we hit a sandbank. There we hopped out and fished a bit. We didn't catch anything so we drove back down the river. On the way back down the river I was driving and keeping a lookout for fish when Dad yelled over the noise of the outboard. I stopped it and looked around for the fish that he had seen. There 5 metres in front of us was a fish. I steered over to the fish and Dad tried to scoop it out of the water.
Then Dad took over the steering and I tried to scoop the fish up. I had just got the gaff hook ready when Dad succeeded in getting the fish into the boat with the bailing bucket. It was a good sized Sea Mullet and I measured it. It was 33 cm and as there was no legal size on Sea Mullet we kept it. I then steered to a beach and we did some fishing. We didn't catch anything so Dad drove us back to the beach were the boat hire was. After that we drive to the caravan and Dad filleted the Sea Mullet.
Then We got the bait rigs ready for some night fishing. After that we started cooking dinner. Dad fried he fish and I fried the potatoes. After a lovely dinner of fried Sea mullet and Mulloway fillets and steaks we went night fishing.
When we arrived at the jetty there was no one else there. We started fishing and almost immediately I caught a small Tailor. Then Mum hooked up to something big. The fish ran like mad and fought really hard. Mum couldn't reel the fish in so Dad had to give her a hand. In the end though we landed the fish and I got it out of the water with our lip grip. It turned out to be a good sized Mulloway. I went and measure it. It was 65 cm 15 cm over the legal size. Dad bled it and Mum kept fishing. Then the same thing happened again. Mum's rod buckled over and the line went zipping off the reel. This time I had to give Mum a had in landing the fish. This time it was a 64 cm Mulloway. Dad bled this one as well and Mum kept fishing. Then this happened a third time and Dad helped Mum again and the fish turned out to be another Mulloway. It was 60 cm long and Dad bled it as well.
I changed to bait and almost immediately hooked a small 30 cm mulloway. Then I re baited and waited a bit more. Then my rod buckled over and I was onto a good fish. It fought but not as hard as the Mulloways that we had caught. It turned out to be a good sized fat Black Bream. I measured it and discovered that it made 25 cm! A legal bream at last. Then Dad hooked up to a fish. He thought that it was a small Mulloway. He reeled it in and we saw that it was an even fatter and even bigger Black Bream. I measured it and found out that this one was 27 cm. It made my Bream look puny! Dad bled both the Bream and we went home soon after. We gave one Mulloway to the guy who was fishing next to us yesterday. When we finally got to the caravan I went straight to bed.
Oggi siamo andati da pesca.
Io presi due Mulloway.
Ho anche preso uno Bream.
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