Best fishing Weekend Ever!

Alright, so a new blog post. I’ll talk about my weekend. Well, more like just Saturday.

I woke up bright and early on Saturday morning. 6:15 am!!! But this was to go fishing so I was happy with the early wake up. Dad woke me up an hour late so I decided to have a shower to wake myself up. I don’t usually shower before fishing because I just get smelly on the boat and no one is gonna see me. I made a coffee in mums travel mug just before dad and I left to pick up Lochie, he was coming with us too! With his gear in the boat and him in the backseat with all the dog fur, we drove towards town on hopefully a great day of fishing. But that was just false hope.

Soon after we rocked up at the boat ramp and spotted the public toilet wall graffitied with spray paint. It wasn’t mindless graffiti, it was quite artistic. Anyway, we launched the boat and Lochie and I are waiting for dad to park the car when he spots heaps of decent sized mullet schooling around the jetty. I jumped in the boat, grabbed the gaff and attempted to gaff one of them. I failed miserably. Dad hops in the boat and we’re off, gliding across the cold water of the Murchison. The air was that much colder that steam was visible on the waters surface and we could see our breaths. And thus, we begin our long drive out west.

After half an hour of driving, we pass underneath a raining cloud. It rained on us but it was light. The rain produced a spectacular double rainbow in the distance, and one end seemed to finish exactly at our spot.
“Well this is our lucky day Lochie!” I yell over the roaring wind
“Hope so!” He shouts back. That’s where we were wrong. Not 5 minutes after the double rainbow vanished, our engine cut out. At first I thought dad stopped the boat because he saw some good ground but he didn’t do it. The key wasn’t responding!!!! He checked the motor, lifted it up and declared that we were stuck. Dad radioed the VMR (voluntary marine rescue) and got them to tow us back through the river mouth. Lochie and I still wanted to fish so we dropped a metal jig over the side. We had only just begun jigging that day and we were pretty carp at it. (did you see what I did there?) we weren’t over any good ground either and we jigged for an hour until the VMR boat arrived to tow us in. With a mess up with attaching the tow rope to the front of the boat, we enjoyed a ride home without the sound of the motor. It didn’t feel natural moving that fast on a boat without hearing the motor going! With a quick half hour ride, we arrived safely back in the river mouth. We hooked the boat on and drove home, with nothing to show for it except a stuffed up boat!

With a quick drive up the hill and dropping Lochie off, we emptied the boat and dad rang a boat mechanic in Gero to see if he could figure out the problem, since we were going to Coral Bay in a few weeks. He found that the wiring was done wrong with all motors made in the year 2009. He took it to gero Monday to get it fixed and we’re driving to gero to pick it up in a few days. We’re so lucky we took the boat out for a fish before Coral Bay. Having a boat problem there would have ruined the whole holiday since we only go to Coral Bay to fish the spectacular reefs. With the greatest day fishing I’ve ever had behind me (sarcasm is hard to type!), i began to look forward to an awesome Coral Bay holiday with my ‘cousins’ (dad’s high school friends wife and kids).

Thanks for reading this and don’t worry, I’ll be back!