Crayfish anyone?

Saturday Jan 23. I filled up my water bottle, grabbed my sunscreen, hat and sunglasses... i'm ready to go. As we drove to the harbour, I smothered myself with SPF 40, as it was another hot and sunny day. Today we went to catch us some crayfish! We got there at 11am and found a hole to lower our net. As bait, we have a giant fish head dangling above the net. The idea is for the crayfish to nibble on the head and while they're feasting on the head, we tug on the rope that's attached to the net. This should hopefully cause them to fall into the net. According to the locals, 10 minutes after lowering the net is the best time do the 'pull'. I should have brought a book. Alot of the time was spent just waiting to do the next 'pull'. However, 'pull' time was exciting... though after 2 hrs and 10+ pulls of empty net, the excitement faded a bit.

On the last 'pull' that we declared, we caught our very first crayfish. Feeling some encouragement from our declared last pull, we decided to stay a bit longer. An hour later, and still no crayfish, we declared our last 'pull' again. This time, I did the 'pull'. I could see that the net was empty but I was excited to find a large fish attached to the head. Unfortunately we didn't have anything to catch it with. So as soon as it stopped being greedy and let go of our bait, it fell back into the water.

Four people x three hours = 12 man hours and we caught 1 crayfish... Its the experience that counts! ^_^