A trap full of fish

On Sunday, I went to Altona pier. I had prepared a fish trap with prawns and a slice of squid in it.

I was going to lower it under the pier, where I could see mussels and some cold water coral. I dropped the trap down and watched it sink.

After 1 hour, I came back to check the trap. I started to pull in the trap and in it were 15 small fish.

One of these fish is a gobie because it was breathing air; some were sculpin because of the small spines on their fins. Many of the others, I don't know their names. After taking pictures, I released them all back under the pier.

 I also found a soldier crab on the beach.

Finn's mulloway 2

At the end of September, I returned to Werribee River pier in the hope of catching a mulloway.

I used yellow-tail for bait and a small mullet lure on the two rods I brought.

Casting beside the old groynes, Werribee River

 The mulloway were taking the yellow-tail off the hook, much to my annoyance. I put another yellow-tail on the hook and cast it out 10m.

 I used these two lures

 The mulloway didn't like these lures - no bites. So I packed up my lure rod. Then I heard a clicking sound. It was my bite detector. I went over to reel in the line. I felt a weight on the line and set the hook. Fish on! But when I started reeling it in, the mulloway broke off. Maybe I'll catch one next time.

👦  🐠  🎣

Finn's mulloway

Mulloway are one of the hardest fish to catch.

Image courtesy of: https://goo.gl/images/5VBhUy

I went to Werribee river pier to try to catch this fish.

When I wasn't looking, a Mulloway took the yellow tail bait on my stronger rod. When I turned around, my rod had been pulled into the estuary. Luckily I had brought two rods, so I started fishing with my lighter rod.

I switched to using lures to catch the Mulloway.

Bream were biting my lure but they wouldn't hook up. I tried two different lures - one hard plastic and one metal lure.

 I went home empty handed - the Mulloway were just too hard to catch here, but I had a nice time and will be back. 👦🎣

visitation

Thought you'd like to see this pic of Mum and me and Hum, our visitor. I gather that in Arab society, you're obliged to offer hospitality for three days... well, Hum's been here for nearly two weeks now and seems to have settled in rather than be showing any signs of moving on. Dad says she's a Keeper, Mother Sleeper, but he's just getting confused with one of the albums Auntie Elizabeth gave him for his birthday. On the plus side, however, I have managed to expel him from our bed and erected a fence to rival the Israeli one to make sure he doesn't try sneaking back in during the night.

3yo weigh-in

"16 kilos of prime Mozzie beef"

cunning plans

Just received this from Julia...

"Dear Finn, thanks for dobbing in a new arrival and providing such detailed information about her whereabouts and those un-Austrayl-yan working families who have assisted her. Unfortunately, the Malaysia off-shore processing policy was intended to deal with asylum seekers, rather than people born in Austrayl-ya, although as you point out, the country probably would be a better place if we could export a few true-blue Aussies. Keep up the vigilence, Yours JG"

Time for Plan B, I guess...

Hum

Got home from Nonna's to find a Goldilocks situation: who's been sitting, eating, sleeping in my spaces? Mum and Dad call her Francesca, but as I mentioned in my blog a few months ago, her real name is Hum. I like her - she gave me a pressie, although I have yet to establish how she bought it as apparently she can't walk or drive and has no money.
Anyhoos, I'm posting a few questions which I feel she needs to answer (Dad says she'll respond to them in her own blog in due course, although where he'll find time to type up her musings as well as mine goodness only knows, even if he has finally finished his thesis and has nothing better to do with his time).
1) Why did Hum do a poo in her nappy if she only drinks milk?
2) Why doesn't she like sleeping in her basinette (the irony of this question is breathtaking, given how little time Finn spent in his cot - Ed.)
3) Why does she cry so much?
4) Why does she get to stay up later partying with Mum and Dad?
5) Just, why?