Today we got up early in the morning and I made breakfast for my sister an myself. Then we packed up the caravan, hooked on the car and were driving by 9:00 AM. We drove out to the station and this time we were admitted through. after driving for half an hour we reached the campsite. We would have been there sooner but the speed limit in Cape Range national park is 80 km/h. When we arrived we unhooked the caravan and set up the awning. Dad rolled it out and I pegged in the guide ropes. That was hard work seeing as the ground was very hard and dry. We have no water here except for the water tanks on the caravan so we have to be very water conservative. After we had set up Dad and I started planning the fishing. We tied some thick leaders on some of the soft plastics because the fish kept inhaling theft plastics and biting through the line.
After tying the leaders onto the soft plas
tics we had lunch. After lunch we all headed down to the beach to do a spot of fishing. I saw a small stingray make it's way hastily out to sea but that was all the marine life we saw. After a bit we still hadn't caught anything and Dad cast a small spinner. We though it was snagged in some floating weed but when the weed let go at the sight of Dad he thought it was a small squid. He cast a couple more times and each time the squid followed it. Dad went to get the squid jigs from the caravan. While he was gone I cast a small spinner. After three casts a fish decided to grab the spinner and took off.
I set the hook and started reeling. The fish ran for the snags a fair few times and fought hard. After about three quarters of a minute I saw the fish just under the surface about 4 metres in front of me. The fish saw me and took off again in a last attempt to get away. Then it tired and I tightened the drag. I reeled the fish up and dragged it onto the beach. I stared at it in amazement. It was a fish that I had never seen before. It had snout that protruded out over the top of the mouth and four threads like a Thread Fin Salmon. I still don't know what it was. After some quick photos the fish was returned to the water. After some encouragement it swam away as fast as it could.
After that Dad came back and Mum and my sister walked back to the caravan. Then Dad and I did some more fishing but didn't catch anything. After an hour we packed up and headed back to the caravan. Then Dad walked down to Yardie creek to check out what the fishing was like. After three quarters of an hour he came back and we walked down to Yardie creek to do some sunset fishing. Dad cast a soft plastic and but didn't hook anything. Then he tried a small silver vibe. A 20 cm Trevalley hammered it and took off. Dad's drag was set rather loosely but he tightened it and landed the fish.
After that I put Dad's Garfish rig on and hooked some of the fish that were swimming around the rocks. Then I couldn't catch anything else because Dad decided to go back to that caravan as the sandflies were coming on and starting to bite. When we arrived at the caravan Dad went and talked to our new neighbours while Mum started cooking dinner. For dinner we had fried sausages and fried potatoes. After dinner we had dessert. Dessert was chocolate milk with some more german lebkuchen biscuits. After dessert I finished writing the blog and went to bed.
Oggi siamo andate de pesca.
Io presi i piccolo pesci.
Erano molto piccoli.
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