Things progressing for our adventure of a lifetime. All happy at home except our 12 year old daughter. While we endeavour to tick off our to do list such as securing sponsorship, completing our website, sourcing a support team and so on, our 12 year old worries about how she will do her hair, avoid snakes and survive weeks camping with her parents with no IPad, mobile, TV. Bless her! It’s all relative I guess. I’m equally beginning to wonder what was I thinking when I decided to embark on our adventure – weeks with hubby & a pre- adolescent in the bush. Identifying as a Buddhist I think I will need a new mantra to deal with those meltdown moments. Or just lots of meditation by the river.
Hubby on the other hand is on his own mission with an agenda. To finally catch a fish. Yes he has never caught a fish yet has managed to lose two rods off the back of the boat. And that’s was over one holiday Christmas period. He thinks fish in the Murray is a fable and all the advertising material shown in glossy tourist brochures a conspiracy as they don’t exist. Of course being a mere male it can’t be that he just hasn’t been lucky or using the wrong bait. Speaking of which he has used corn, cheese, chips, prawn, plastic bait of all shapes and sizes and dim sim to lure this elusive fish. Yes you read correctly a dim sim from the fish & chip shop. I should note the obvious he hasn’t used worms as he doesn’t want to take any from our home worm farm as apparently they are like our pets!!
This weekend was taken up with trying to fish at an alternative location – Lake Eildon. The statement in the morning was I will definitely catch something today. Again nothing! Oh he did manage to pull out a stick. 
Check out the photo to see my dilemma. Not until he catches a fish on the Mighty Murray will I ever hear the end of it. So for those of you who are religious please pray he catches one within the first week of our journey in order to preserve my sanity. For those who can shed any light on how to catch a real fish please feel free to provide advice below. Please, I beg you. P.S. Any advice on surviving the child also welcome.
6 Comments
Kate · 19 May 2015 at 8:22 pm
At least he has weeks to try to catch a fish!! My dad & a family friend would often fish when we went away – either catching nothing or small group ones….never fish for tea. In fact often the fish would swim around them while they fish….so close, yet so far – ever elusive.
Dianne Yoong · 20 May 2015 at 11:30 am
Good idea that we don’t plan fish for dinner given Kiam’s reputation & your dad’s. Think we might bring a few tins of Spam! Haven’t had it since I was a kids. ha ha
Matt · 19 May 2015 at 9:13 pm
I know for a fact a 6 year old has caught a Murray cod on both cabana and cheese both from Aldi whilst an older fellow tried traditional baits 15m away and caught nothing while his wife laughed at the situation of being out fished by a 6 year old.
Dianne Yoong · 20 May 2015 at 11:27 am
That’s amazing. I won’t laugh next time Kiam goes for the dim sim!!
mick veal · 20 May 2015 at 2:58 pm
i would chips and dimmys do not cut it. it is like barry and his lollies hahaha.
Jan Tompkins · 22 May 2015 at 10:16 am
Barry would rather eat the lollies than give them to the fish. hahaha