Back to the east coast

We drove to Swansea to continue down the east coast.
We drove along nine mile beach to Point Bagot a free campsite. I went down to the outlet for a fish in search of Salmon. There is so much weed coming out of this outlet into the bay Salmon fishing is not easy. I did see plenty of Mullet swimming into the bay so I swapped over to Bait and hooks for a try of this. As seems to be the case in Tassie you need to fight of the little fish to allow bigger fish to get them. A school of some bigger mullet swum past so I cast out into them and bag got a good size one. There were to many small fish here so I moved along the bay. In about an hour I caught 20 odd mullet and Salmon but most had to be returned. I wonder how the fish know how to stop growing just before the reach legal size. This is the first time I have fished where there are other people and I’m the only one catching fish. The young lads were soon pissed off that they couldn’t catch anything and they left. That left me and another guy who even tried to rig up the same way I did but still couldn’t catch anything while I was pulling them in. I hope this means I’m getting better at catching fish. I do feel I’m beginning to understand the conditions better and where the fish are more likely to be. I hope this is so!!

It is quite windy this morning and no chance of canoeing here so we will move on. There is rain coming today or tomorrow so we are off in search of a more sheltered place. There are very few camp sites now along the coast so we have had to back track to Mayfields camp site which is still in Oyster Bay. It is pretty popular. No fish here just weed. We have spent a couple of quite days here relaxing and putting up with some rain and wind.