Hamish's Fishing Guide

Hey, I want to tell you about the fishing my family’s done on our trip. Everybody has caught a fish, and everybody enjoys fishing, even though sometimes it does take a long time and you may lose a rig, it’s still fun. 

Now this trip is us kids first time doing proper fishing. JoJo and Sara caught their first fish in Streaky Bay while we were camping at Perlubie Beach, whereas I caught my first in the Coorong while we were camping at Long Point. So far we have caught three eating fish, all leatherjackets, two of them had problems. One fish swallowed the hook, that was the one mum caught and the one dad caught had some sort of parasite crawling into its guts but the one I caught was perfectly fine, Sara and I refused to eat the fish with the parasite. My family’s caught heaps of small fish so far.

 In the Coorong most of the fish we caught were Australian salmon, then at Perlubie it was sand whiting and now in Lucky Bay its sand and King George whiting, with some random ones as well. Mum really wants us to catch an eating sized whiting because at the fish shop in Streaky Bay whiting was 60 dollars a kilo for fillets!

When you’re fishing you need a rig so that’s what I’m going to talk about now. So far we’ve lost a couple of hooks and sinkers, not too bad! I can’t make a rig because I can’t tie knots and mum’s just better at doing it (with the help of the fishing book). 

 Every successful person has a reason behind their success. The reason behind our two eating fish caught is a fishing book, it’s called the “Australian Fish ID Pocket Guide”. It’s got heaps of the popular fish species, it tells you how to tie knot’s and techniques to use for different fishing situations. The book has helped a lot but sometimes it doesn’t tell you what you want, like yesterday mum caught this yellow scaly fish and I caught a light green one but they were not in the book.

 Now this concludes Hamish’s fishing post because we are going out fishing! 

 • BTW me (Hamish) wrote this by myself byeeeeeeeeeee