We leave here on Friday (two more sleeps) so yesterday we had our last day of fishing. The pink snapper season opens on the Monkey Mia side on August first so we decided to go over and try our luck, having never caught a size pink there before! Size is between 50 and 70 cm and we can have one for each of our licences.
We were in the water by about 10.15 and apart from catching half a dozen bait fish we'd got nothing! At 12 15, I started to get bored and whingy and wanted to go home. About 5 minutes later, Russ pulled in a 59cm pink and I caught a 37cm black snapper. We started to drift and caught 4 more blacks (biggest was 42cm) and heaps of just undersized pinks. By 2.15 ish we'd drifted about 9 more ks down the coast! and needed to head home so we could clean the fish and shower before going to friends Charlie and Beatie's for a drinks. Just as we were using our last bits of bait, I got a huge bite and knew I'd caught my snapper. He put up an amazing fight and at 63 cm is the biggest fish I've ever caught out of our tinny. We turned for home and realised the wind had got up-it took us 45 minutes bashing through the waves to get back to the boat ramp. It was exhausting.
So, this morning we went out to the hot tub at Peron Homestead once again to soothe our aching muscles and soak out some of last nights alcohol and a cooked breakfast was pretty good for our recovery too ;-)
