Mike and I went out fishing in the Adelaide river, launching from saltwater arm. It was extremely windy so we couldn’t repeat the last trip. I sight cast a approx 40cm barra who took it with no hook. Another cast had the barra grab the lure as soon as it landed on the water but no hook up as my bail arm wasn’t even over.
We bait fished for some jewies and got 14 catfish. As we went home we flicked a few interesting things and I got a barracuda. A very quiet day!
We went to Corroborree Billabong on the 6 person houseboat with the Lewis’s. Was a nice day out although not very sunny given the time of year. And we didn’t see a croc!
Maggie was soon off to Belfast with Claire, so the two of us decided to head to Litchfield togther. It was a public holiday because of the Queen’s Funeral. She handled the lenght of the drive and the bushwalk really well. Overall a great deal of fun. If we go with Ed we might need to stick to Wangi for a while.
Ed’s naps have prevented us from being able to travel to Kakadu and Litchfield, but Berry springs is only 40 minutes away. So we decided to head down early one morning. Claire and I were unsure just how much he would get out of it, but we knew Maggie would love it.
Well, it turned out Ed had a great time! He couldn’t do much but hang onto his Mum in the shallower part, but still thought it was a blast. And Maggie absolutely loved it. It was hard describing it to her, she seemed to think she was going into a big pool that looked like a lake. But when she got there she saw the fish and we swap downstream to the bigger pools she said in her geniune voice “this place is amazing Dad!”.
Some trips just work!
Mike and I went out together looking for some Trevelly and Queenfish action. The plan was to throw lures around – I personally think Queenfish are very underrated as a table fish, though everyone agrees both are terrific fighters.
We went out and it was one of those (great) days! We caught loads, in fact, I twice caught two trevelly on the same lure! I had not seen this before, but it is not likely not that uncommon. They swim as a pack and because of the clear water I could see a fish follow the guy I had on my hook and try to grab the “food” out of its mouth and in doing so get hooked.
Mike caught something huge, it took him a very long time to even get a glimpse of it – brassy trevelly! 74cm and it fought like all hell. Was quite entertaining too, he would get it to the boat and I would get the net out, suddenly the fish would take off and threaten to spool Mike so I would have to start the boat up and chase him down. Then Mike would win the fight, get him to the boat and I’d get the net… only to have to start the boat again. That happened 4-5 times, we started calling him the “gym junkie trevelly”.
My best fish for the day was a 58cm Queenfish (a PB).
We finished the day with some bait in a hole. Not much was happening when suddenly I hooked something huge! I thought perhaps a ray because of how it could stick to the bottom. But it went on long runs, so I was daring to dream I had caught a monster jewie! It took me about 20 minutes to get it to the surface, and it was a turtle. Dissapointing and also a bit upsetting, I love turtles. It went back under and the line snapped right at the point which was good, hopefully it gives it a fighting chance.
Got:
Me – 58cm Queenie, approx 6 queenies, approx 10 trevelly.
Mike – 74cm Brassy Trevelly, approx 3 queenies, approx 15 trevelly, and lots of catfish on bait!