Family Fishing Fun

[Herefishyfishy101]

Hey Raiders,

Took my 4 year old and a couple of her 5 year old friends (and dads) out on the Hacking today for a bit of a fish and some fun in the sun. My daughter has been watching IFISH a for the last couple of weeks while we get dinner ready and wanted to catch "a whopper". Cute.

We put in at 8am and potted around to Yowie bay for a look. We chucked half a dozen rods in with a mix of pillies, squid and prawns on the hooks and waited...

My 4 year old starts getting excited, I look around and she's actually onto a fish! She's really struggling just holding the line. It's a $10 Kmart job and she's only little rigged with a #8 longshank hook so how big could it be?

She got scared and handed me the rod, and this thing has some weight to it! I loosened the drag and let it have a few runs before bringing it close enough to the boat to net it. 52cm Salmon!! My first salmon! (I cast it and a landed it so it's only fair I claim it right?! [emoji6]) and her first fish! Asked the girl what we should do with it and she said put it back and catch it again - back it went.

By this stage we were at the top of the tide and nothing was biting; cool but annoying to see a rat king on the surface swimming around the boat. So close we could see his yellow stripe - tried to net him but dodged us. Would he touch any of our baits or lures? No. Was he happy to eat our berley cubes? Or course he was! Clever fish.

Spent the rest of the morning drifting South Arm and Deeban with plastics but only managed a puffer fish. The creepy thing kept croaking while I was getting the hook out.

Anyway bit of fun for the kids who enjoyed some sun and some fresh air and we're stoked to actually see a big fish!

On a side note one of the dads caught a silver fish with 3 thick vertical black stripes, about the size of a bream, which he promptly dropped over the side of the boat before we could get a picture. It didn't look like any bream I've ever seen and definitely not a luderick either. Anyone have a good guess off this vague description?

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[Krispy !]

Hey Raiders,

Took my 4 year old and a couple of her 5 year old friends (and dads) out on the Hacking today for a bit of a fish and some fun in the sun. My daughter has been watching IFISH a for the last couple of weeks while we get dinner ready and wanted to catch "a whopper". Cute.

We put in at 8am and potted around to Yowie bay for a look. We chucked half a dozen rods in with a mix of pillies, squid and prawns on the hooks and waited...

My 4 year old starts getting excited, I look around and she's actually onto a fish! She's really struggling just holding the line. It's a $10 Kmart job and she's only little rigged with a #8 longshank hook so how big could it be?

She got scared and handed me the rod, and this thing has some weight to it! I loosened the drag and let it have a few runs before bringing it close enough to the boat to net it. 52cm Salmon!! My first salmon! (I cast it and a landed it so it's only fair I claim it right?! [emoji6]) and her first fish! Asked the girl what we should do with it and she said put it back and catch it again - back it went.

By this stage we were at the top of the tide and nothing was biting; cool but annoying to see a rat king on the surface swimming around the boat. So close we could see his yellow stripe - tried to net him but dodged us. Would he touch any of our baits or lures? No. Was he happy to eat our berley cubes? Or course he was! Clever fish.

Spent the rest of the morning drifting South Arm and Deeban with plastics but only managed a puffer fish. The creepy thing kept croaking while I was getting the hook out.

Anyway bit of fun for the kids who enjoyed some sun and some fresh air and we're stoked to actually see a big fish!

On a side note one of the dads caught a silver fish with 3 thick vertical black stripes, about the size of a bream, which he promptly dropped over the side of the boat before we could get a picture. It didn't look like any bream I've ever seen and definitely not a luderick either. Anyone have a good guess off this vague description?

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Sounds like a lovely day on the water with the family mate, the fish you describe, I can only think of an indo pacific sergeant, and I have seen small ones in the hacking before

[Yowie]

Another possibility is a fish called an "Old Wife".