We stayed at
the Caravan Park opposite the hotel, luckily getting 4 sites beside each other
at the back of the park which enabled us to fit in the Myers caravan, David’s
tent and delightful clinker built boat, the McDonald’s large boat attached to a
Landcruiser, Barry’s tent and my caravan.
The weather
was perfect although it was predicted to deteriorate on Sunday afternoon.
Fishing for
the weekend was somewhat difficult for most of us although Sean managed to
out-fish both his brother and father most of the time. It was soon apparent
that prawns were not the flavour of the month and nearly all fish were caught
on the good old sandworm including those marinated in metho. Typical of what
happened over the weekend was demonstrated in my boat where I caught 2 keepers
on Friday afternoon whereas on Saturday Barry caught about 10 with 6 or 7
keepers and I only caught two undersized and then on Sunday morning we caught
one keeper each. However in the Myer boat they caught 16 between them on
Saturday afternoon. Saturday was the best day with David and Carol catching 2
and even Alby caught one (but there may be a fine associated with this latter
one as there was a whisper in the camp that Carol had to bait his hook.)
We all headed
for the pub on Friday night where an enjoyable meal was had by all-- David
picked out the wrong card and missed out on the $1900 but got a glass of wine instead
and Barry won a meat tray in the Friday night raffle
Saturday saw
the arrival of the Edgley's who proceeded to head out to sea, via the entrance.
Whilst out there Kerry threw a few lures around and managed to catch a variety
of fish including the winning ’other species’ that being a Wrasse which just
pipped Carol’s Mullett.
Saturday
night saw many hands pitch in to preparing the ‘Club dinner’ which consisted of
beautifully cooked rump steak, spuds cooked in foil, carrots and peas and corn--special
thanks to Barry for cooking the potatoes in his ‘spit thing’ and Carol, Bronwyn
and Kerry for their help. Sandra Bills sent Barry along with a steamed pudding
and Carol brought along 12 little apple pies she had made. The only issue with
the meal was that there was a whole saucepan of peas ‘n corn left over.
The winning
bream was caught by Ian Myers weighing in at 669 gms whilst the junior award
went to Sean Myers for a fish weighing 561 gms.
These weights
may seem low but most fish caught over the weekend were around 30-32 cms long.
The secret
weight was won by Barry Bills.
