There are some ugly things in the sea
Yesterday I went fishing with Sam and bagged this hideous thing..
Actually it's a squid and is quite nice to eat if you like calamari and that sort of thing.
I am wearing my new stupid fishing hat. The wind was so cold I wore two shirts, the top one is my stupid farm shirt. Fishing at Myponga is unique in that you can get simultaneously burnt to a crisp by the sun and frozen to death by the wind.
My brother set up the lure you can see above, which is a garfish skewered down it's length. At the bottom are hooks which the beast is snared on. Sam didn't use any bait, he used one of these squid jigs which seem to work even better:
Above is one of four squid that my brother caught. We bagged five squid in total.
We went to Myponga which seems to have become our regular haunt. Myponga is an hour's drive from Adelaide and it's name is supposedly derived from the Aboriginal word maippunga meaning locality of high cliffs.
You can see that Bouche has been splattered with squid ink on her legs and got some smeared on her face. They are squirty litle blighters, those squid.
Sam walks back to the car. The problem with Myponga is that you need to clamber over these rocks to get to the best fishing spot. If you can carry all your gear and avoid falling over and twisting your ankle you have done well.
Sam also caught a cuttlefish but let it go. I didn't get a picture of it but it had orange and white stripes, a bit like the following cuttlefish but uglier:
I used to see hundreds of cuttlefish bones (below) on the beach when I was a kid but I had no idea they came from this fish until I was older.
We also saw:
One day I hope to catch some proper fish with Sam, it has been slim pickings the last few times.
Actually it's a squid and is quite nice to eat if you like calamari and that sort of thing.
I am wearing my new stupid fishing hat. The wind was so cold I wore two shirts, the top one is my stupid farm shirt. Fishing at Myponga is unique in that you can get simultaneously burnt to a crisp by the sun and frozen to death by the wind.
My brother set up the lure you can see above, which is a garfish skewered down it's length. At the bottom are hooks which the beast is snared on. Sam didn't use any bait, he used one of these squid jigs which seem to work even better:
Above is one of four squid that my brother caught. We bagged five squid in total.
We went to Myponga which seems to have become our regular haunt. Myponga is an hour's drive from Adelaide and it's name is supposedly derived from the Aboriginal word maippunga meaning locality of high cliffs.
You can see that Bouche has been splattered with squid ink on her legs and got some smeared on her face. They are squirty litle blighters, those squid.
Sam walks back to the car. The problem with Myponga is that you need to clamber over these rocks to get to the best fishing spot. If you can carry all your gear and avoid falling over and twisting your ankle you have done well.
Sam also caught a cuttlefish but let it go. I didn't get a picture of it but it had orange and white stripes, a bit like the following cuttlefish but uglier:
I used to see hundreds of cuttlefish bones (below) on the beach when I was a kid but I had no idea they came from this fish until I was older.
We also saw:
- a stingray, maybe a couple of feet in wingspan. I have seen this the last couple of times I've been to Myponga, I think it hunts the little fish that stay close to the rocks.
- a couple of small zebra fish, close to the rocks
- some little dark fish, probably leatherjackets
- two dolphins jumping, maybe 200m out, only caught a bit of them on video
One day I hope to catch some proper fish with Sam, it has been slim pickings the last few times.