Hunters' wives out hunting ... for food !!!

It was a beautiful day with clear skies. The Hunter's wives decided to leave the hunters at home and have a night out on the town!

Beautiful Docklands. It was a mad scramble not to drop the camera when setting it up!

Our first course started with yummy steak and seafood at the Steakhouse. With a big screen plasma up on the wall so we could see our steaks cooking!
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After freezing on the boardwalk trying to find the place, we ended up at the.. Chocolate shop! Yep... chocolate was the main substitute for alcohol that night! Unbenowst to all, 2 of the ladies were early pregnant!

Yummy dessert!

Hsu and Rita looking puzzled at the bill. Our accountant had preggy Mum syndrome even then!

Night shot of Melbourne from SouthBank 14-Oct-2006

This blog entry has nothing to do with fishing. But this night shot was taken so beautifully with my Canon PowerShot A95 that I had to share it with anyone out there in the net. Just click the photos for the original full size.

Warneet Jetty (7-Oct-2006)

The leatherjacket story !!!This trip was made by me and Daniel only. We arrived at around 7:30am, with the lowest tide. We were the only one there. High tide reached peak at around 12pm.

Both of us was using pasternoster rig with size 6 or 8 hooks. I was feeling very confident that I would catch a few mullets ... after all Daniel/Tanya had been successful in their past two trips.

Other anglers started coming in at around 9:30am.

While we were there, a young man reeled in four King George Whitings. A few others reeled in mullets.
A leatherjacket was caught by Daniel at around 10:25am.
Size limit: 20cm. (from the website - Department of Primary Industries and Water website)

We left the jetty at 12pm, feeling upset, because Daniel was unable to duplicate his previous success, and I ... well ... empty-handed again.
Daniel ended up giving me the fish because he said he does not know how to gut this little sucker.

We didn't know the legal size limit during the trip because leatherjacket legal size was not listed on the jetty size scale. This fish measured 18cm. If we had known this earlier, we would have released it back into the water immediately. We sworn we won't never do this again after today.

Warneet Jetty (1-Oct-2006)

Daniel and Tanya struck Mullets again, with a total of four. If this keeps going on, we will have to call them "The Mullet couple".

Daniel and Tanya wrote:
"It does not matter whether you use pipis or chicken as bait, timing is the most important factor. Pretty much these fishes were caught within that one hour.

It is not the am pm thing. It is the turn of the tide! We got there and the tide was going out and no fish at all! As soon as the tide started coming in, it was feeding frenzy! When it reached close to peak tide, the frenzy stopped. So... in conclusion, turn of the tide."

Hmm!!! Two of them seems to have drowned. Need to buy a keeper's net, to keep them alive in the water???