I went fishing in the Kalbarri Offshore and Angling Club monthly competition, the competition started at 5:00pm Friday and ended at 4:00pm Saturday. After school I got all my fishing gear ready and then I went down to Marina Home and Leisure (Post Office) to get my bait and extra tackle.
I walked down to the Penn and set up. Robbie, Phet and Harry were down there fishing. None of us caught any fish that night but there were a few big runs but none of them were landed.
When I woke up, Dad drove me down to the Penn to have another fish. Robbie, Phet and Harry camped overnight there. Robbie caught 1 Mangrove Jack early in the morning. There was a few bream being caught but nothing big.
A few hours went by and nothing competition worthy and Terry came down to take his boat out and the noise of the boat made the fish come out to investigate so I cast behind the boat and hooked up to a big bream. It didn’t fight, it was just a solid weight and then I saw the bream and I told Phet to get the net and he scooped him up in a single scoop. I was thrilled. I measured it and he was all of 41cm and he didn’t fit in my esky so I put him in Robbie’s esky with his mangrove jack and smaller bream.
After my ‘nanny nap’ I went down to the weigh-in to get a ticket and then I saw my competitor’s fish and what they caught. I was feeling lucky.
When they weighed my bream it was 1.32kg, I was stoked with a new PB bream and I won the Junior River and Meritorious prize.