Deepsea
Fishing
Ben,
my son came across to Perth in August 2015 for a holiday, and we decided to go
camping up North as far as Coral Bay and then inland to Karijini National
Park. The camping experience will no
doubt be covered in a different post.
This post relates the story of deep-sea fishing.
Before
the journey started, Ben had expressed an interest in trying deep-sea fishing. We had taken him fishing for his 12th
birthday on a previous visit to Perth. I
must admit that the idea of deep-sea fishing was not my idea of a good day
out. The previous day, we had seen two
snakes and I was still suffering from that shock. We had also seen a spiny lizard which had
made my day.
Anyway,
while in Coral Bay, we went to the shops and one happened to be advertising
deep-sea fishing, so we enquired further and before I knew it, we were booked
on for the next day. Paul and Ben were fishing,
and I was spectating. I secretly hoped
that the trip might have been cancelled due to weather but no … the next
morning we were off fishing for 7 hours.
I
took a couple of seasickness tablets but think I spent most of the 7 hours
feeling like death warmed up, especially when we were stationary, however, Ben
and Paul were having a great time. There
were some experienced fishermen on the trip, and they helped Ben in particular
to land a couple of fish which was great for him. At one point someone landed a shark and they
had to cut the rope as it was too big – an assumed Great White. They also landed a small shark which they
pulled in for long enough for us to see.
Everyone
fishing was allowed 5 fish, so the experienced fishermen pulled in quite a
haul. We also saw a whale which was exciting. In the area’s close to the shore, where the
sea was as clear as crystal, we could see all kinds of fish.
Coral
bay has some great coral to explore, we did not get too much time to do so with
the busy schedule we had which was a shame.
At the end of the trip I got off the boat and kissed the ground. We then went round to the tables that had
been set up where the fish were gutted and filleted.
As
we were in tents and our only refrigerator was a cool box, we could not take
the 10 fish we were entitles to but walked away with about 6 of them. I wasn’t really that keen on fish until then
but I have to say the fish – there were 3 types, snapper and red emperor where
two, I can’t remember the third, were the best fish we had ever tasted. They were so fresh it was amazing. We gave same away but still ate fish for 4
days, and it was disappointing to come to the end of them. Cooked on the BBQ – which was our only
cooking method, they were amazing.
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