1st day at the Point

Fishing off the Rock 

& Playing in the Rock Pools.

Tide half way out; perfect crab hunting time

For the love of Occie!
Can you see them both?

Our favourite fishing at Quondong Point is for Bluebone (Black Spot Tusk Fish), which we use crabs caught in the rock pools for bait.  Since we hadn’t bothered catching any crabs yesterday on low tide, (we were just enjoying being here and relaxing after setting up camp), we couldn’t fish for Bluebone with this mornings high tide.  We still headed over to the rock for a look, with rods of course!  

A few casts with the Rooster Poppers got some attention but no takes.  Quick change of lure and Johnno was ON!  Wahoo!!! First cast of new lure, first time it’s ever been used, and Fish On!!  Go the Stick Bait!  He was just about to ‘walk the dog’ but Mr Tervalley couldn’t wait that long!  Tight Line, fish running, running, oh no!! Running around the rock!! Hahaha, just our luck, first fish and it’s going to cut the line around the rock.  But No, sorry Mr Tervalley, Johnno has played this game before!  He loosened the drag a bit, letting the fish run, so he could lift the line above the rock.  A little bit of wind, making a little bit of wave, made it interesting trying to get the fish in around the rocks; but experienced Johnno just kept playing the game, until he had Mr Tervalley were he could safely land him on the flat rock below where he had hooked him.  Couple of quick photos, watch out for the waves, and an easy release with the next wave that took Mr Tervalley back to a safe recovery rock.  Yes, of course there will be a YouTube clip to follow shortly, we both had our GoPro’s on.

1st day, 1st cast on new lure, 1st Quondong fish!

We spent the rest of the morning while the tide was going out, reading, swimming, and sleeping.  Johnno is still coughing at nights, no where near as bad as the night I almost took him to hospital, but enough to stop us sleeping.  But yet reading a book in the shade, listening to the waves after a little lunch, is a much better sleeping drug than all the cold and flu tablets he has been popping to try and sleep at night.
On that note, I was amazed at how quickly my eye got better.  For over a week it would feel like it was getting better, then get worse again, feel better, then get worse again etc etc.  Then on Wednesday, after our shopping trip to Broome, I took ONE of Johnno’s Cold & Flu tablets, an hour later my eye was better, and has been fine ever since!!  One friggen tablet!!!  And here I was thinking I’d done some kind of serious damage because it wasn’t healing!! 

 I love drugs!!

So after a few hours of sleeping, my chair was no longer in the shade, and I was starting to stink, (I mean get hot) ;)
The tide was half way out, time to go for a walk around the rock pools.  Knowing the cool breeze down my the water would wake me up, and we needed to get bait for tomorrow morning, Bring on the Bluebone!!!

Hello Bluebone bait.

What a wonderful relaxing afternoon, cooling down by laying around in the crystal clear rock pools, while catching crabs, and watching Octopus.  I do love to play with the little Occie.  Such beautiful little creatures those little cephie’s!

Octopus, from the Cephalopoda family ;)

Cooling down at low tide in the clear rock pools.

Plenty of Gaint Clams here, love them too

We gathered a few nice sized boy crabs (we always leave the girls), ready for fishing off the rock tomorrow.  Will still be taking our lure’s as well, we have seen a lot more fish than usual cruising around, so want to be ready for anything.

Sun is setting, beer is cold.  I’m going to cook Liver and Bacon for dinner, to use it up.  I’m confident we are eating Bluebone tomorrow!!