Caleb types again... Special Fishing Edition

OK.

So far we have been 2

Adelaide

Wilpena Pound

*Coober Pedy

Crossed border into NT

Yulara (Uluru)

Watarrka (Kings Canyon)

Alice Springs

Tilmouth Well

*Yuendumu

Devils Marbles

Mataranka

Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge)

*Darwin

Kakadu

Victoria River

Crossed border into WA

*Wyndham

Halls Creek

Derby

Broome

*80 Mile Beach

And now we have stopped at Point Samson.

*My favourite places

Have enjoyed practically every place so far but have enjoyed 80 Mile Beach 4 a specific reason (see fishing report)

If u don’t see me with a basketball in my hand in a day, there’s something wrong...

Now, THERES SOMETHING WRONG!!!

I would KILL to play basketball just about now...

Priorities in killing are:

• Moth flying around my head - done
• Entire Mosquito population – work in progress
• Sam’s voice box
• Other moth flying around my head
• Anything else that would allow me to play bball

A highlight has been that the MIGHTY TIGERS BEAT THE LIONS BY 83PTS!!!

Sport Scores:

none. *sob*

Fishing Report:

Wyndham:

Off a little creek near the pool at Parry’s Creek Farm where we were staying I caught a massive 1.5m barramundi... I WISH!!! Ok. Dad started our fishing diary with a decent 42cm Barramundi using squidgies live bait, its was quite tasty. I followed by catching 2 30 odd cm barra. Three 1sts in this: 1^st barra, 1^st lure-caught fish and 1^st fish caught with my telescopic rod (got as b’day pressie).

80 Mile Beach:

Day 1:

Dad once again started the catching with a 40 odd cm Bluefin salmon, I quickly followed with another pilchard-caught 33 odd cm Bluefin Salmon. TASTY

Day 2:

Started fishing at 1pm but didn’t get a fish until I caught a tiny Salmon. We were amused to see a shark leap out of the water. Now comes the trail of events:

1. Reeled in small Bluefin Salmon, Dad goes to get the camera
2. Dad gets BIG tug just as he is about to get camera and starts reeling in
3. See a large fish jump out of water, shark fin slowly rising out of water
4. Hook snaps off, shark spawns (the baby was about 2” or 3” long and see-through)
5. Dad runs and swings shark out of reach of the water, doing it twice to make sure

Therefore landing a beautiful 65cm black-tip shark. Just b4 we left I caught a 21cm Threadfin Salmon, but let it go too. Later, when filleting the shark, we opened up its stomach to find two whole pieces of our pilchard bait that the little (not really little) bugger was eating. We also retrieved, with great difficulty, the hook from its mouth. A beautiful eating fish and we will eventually try the delicacy of ‘shark fin soup’.

I have realised that I catch the quantity and dad catches the size and quality.

Dad:

42cm barra eaten

40cm Bluefin Salmon eaten pilchards

65cm Black-tip shark eaten squid tentacles

Me:

30cm barra

30cm barra

33cm Bluefin Salmon eaten pillies

Tiny Bluefin Salmon peeled prawns

Small Bluefin Salmon peeled prawns

21cm Threadfin Salmon peeled prawns

I hope you have enjoyed the report and the blog.

I hope to record more caught fish in the future

Cya!