Fishing @Denham

We went out fishing with our neighbours Brice and Doreen today. They are an older pair of friends and Brice owns a huge shark cat that we took out 60kms to “The Shoals”. We were aiming for the change of tide, so were able to leave quite late (10am) which was pretty good. All of us packed lunch and snacks then headed off. It took us 2 hours to get to “the spot” as marked on his GPS where we dropped our lines. The boat limit of black snapper is 4 each or 16 in total and we had these by 1.30 when we pulled in our lines, ate our lunch then headed for home. Apparently some say “the Shoals” is fished out but not for us today-we had the best time pulling in our huge fish.

The ride in and out was pretty good-we saw schools of mackerel, tuna, dolphins and I saw a whale. It was as far as Russ and I have ever travelled west in the world too.

When we got home a crab seller going through the park sold Brice his last 15 blue swimmers for $10, so we sat round at their van and ate crab with salt, pepper vinegar and fresh bread. That’s after we finished filleting and packing all our fish for the freezer. A huge day out!