Fishing (again)

Yesterday (Sunday 4th) we went fishing (“again”?! I can hear some of you say!) It was a fairly nice day, so we went with Brice and Doreen for a look around at the other end of the waterways near here. We went out past Steep point, the most westerly point on the mainland and Into the Indian Ocean. On Friday we went to the most westerly point which is on an island!

We passed the usual schools of mackerel, tuna, pods of dolphin; we saw a number of huge osprey nests with birds sitting in them, and a shark when we anchored for lunch. We weren’t trying too hard for fish and got nothing out past Steep Point at 65 metres. We came back in to the shallower water (32metres) and straight away Russell caught a sweet lip emperor, then I caught a 61cm pink snapper and a sweet lip emperor. They were the only fish we caught that were worth keeping for the day between the 4 of us, so I was pretty pleased with myself. The four of us shared the 2 sweet lips for a huge feed of fish last night.