Wollongong Fishing : Boat Trip, Charter

Date: 11th OCT 2007
Time: 0530-1330
Boat /Captain: Hapuku / Captain Greg

Anglers: Willy
Kelvin
Yullie
Kat
Yours Truly

The day before the captain mentioned that a storm might be moving into our region the morning we were supposed to go offshore. Kinda turned off cos its the last time we would be fishing until we finish our exams. Luckily, the morning's weather was fine, light wind and a clear blue sky.


Leaving the harbour.

Moving towards the first reef.
Willy looking tired. We went fishing for rays the night before and we only had 2 hrs to sleep. Sleep deprivation certainly does affect the speed Willy ties his rigs.
Me in the background looking dazed too. Rigging up for Kat and Yullie, in retrospect why isn't Kelvin rigging up for his girlfriend? Huh?
I can't see what Kelvin is doing but he seems to be busy. With what? hehe, I dunno. Yullie enjoying the sunrise, little does she know she's the champion angler today. The biggest fish and a Snapper to boot. Well Done.....


Everyone busy fishing, Greg the captain surveying us , wondering why we are working so hard. People in Oz treat it as a relaxing day out. We view it as the only chance to get fresh fish. Of course we need to work hard to earn our feed.

Willy with his puny snapper. Not his biggest fish ever but this is one of his dream fish on a boat trip. Hopefully we'll get bigger ones next time.




Cleaning the fish on the way back to the harbour. 48 fish to clean and it takes a long time. We didn't even finish when we return to the harbour. In the mean time, while the guys were busy cleaning and gutting the fish, the girls are taking photos and video.


48 fishes and roughly 25 kilos. Our catch consists of a 4 smaller snapper and a bigger one, plenty of Morwong (13) and lots of leather jacket, 3 sweep,5 wrasse and 3 pig fish and 2 nannygai.

The half the team in the picture, minus the girls, forgot what they were doing.

Anyway, the designated photographers are responsible for the photo taking and there are more photos with Kelvin. I'll be getting it from them and posting the other pictures soon.