Goldfish Bowl

Deep Sea Fishin', NSW, Australia

Originally penned for some time waaay back in July - well that seems like a long time ago now anyways; the long awaited deep sea fishing trip finally rolled around. A car full of 5 guys departed Randwick not long after 6am, and after an all too grisly toilet stop for one of the fishermen, it was time to scoot on over to Cronulla where our grand voyage would depart.

We boarded our vessel and were shown the ropes; or the rods, reels, hooks, lines and sinkers - not to mention some bait. After a bacon roll and a cuppa; we were cruising out across glassy bay seas. As we left the bay, the ocean started to roll the boat around a little before we dropped anchor and set about casting out our lines. It wasn't too long before the first fish were being yoinked in. Red Rock Cod & Sweeps seemed to be pretty popular this morning. From diving experience, I got the feeling we were shooting fish in a barrel at first light.

Soon however, the fishes stopped biting, I'm guessing they'd had their feed for Brekkie and were off doing whatever else it is that fish do when they're not getting hoisted up out of their natural world to potentially end up in a large plastic bucket, only hours later, to be stripped of their scales, stuck to some lemon skin, peppered and then thrown in a 180degree oven and served up as a feast.

The highlights for my lucky morning was pulling out a 6 spiked Leather Jacket Fish which turned out to be the biggest catch of the day, and then I pulled out an ugly yellow eel - which as fun as it was, then broke the line with its struggling as I tried to get a picture. I have a feeling he wouldn't have last long in the depths with a large metal weight now bolted firmly through his lip.

We moved to a few alternate spots and a few more small catches were pulled... some of the boys managed to pull a couple of fish out with the hook landed directly thru our squirmy friends eyeballs... all in, with the beers flowing, and the sun shining down with some strength for the first time this Summer - it was a great day, capped off with the feast of fish later on that night.