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<\/a>My kayak (Native Slayer 13), almost fully rigged up.<\/p><\/div>\n
We hung around Ketam for a bit using Nick’s old (and dead, and frozen, and dead) prawns from his previous netcasting trip before we went netcasting. Yes, I had brought my brand new cast net. Nick was kind enough to give me a brief tutorial on cast netting a few days prior. What are neighbours for after all, if not to steal your plants.<\/p>\n
As Nick ventured further and deeper into the river to find the prawns, I stayed at roughly the same spot. Wading through muddy water with a muddy seabed with muddy SLIPPERS isn’t exactly the most fun thing in the world.<\/p>\n Nick caught a flower crab:<\/p>\n Nick got pinched by a flower crab:<\/p>\n I laughed… discreetly…. keenly aware that he still held the feisty crab in his hand.<\/p>\n Eventually, we both began catching some prawns.<\/p>\n My haul. Decent sized but not large, and definitely not that many.<\/p><\/div>\n With his experience and ability to move around, Nick caught a little more than me.<\/p>\n Nick’s haul. Some prawns are larger than the ones I caught, and obviously more numerous.<\/p><\/div>\n I kid of course, because that is clearly almost double the amount I got, and there was more to come.<\/p>\n I gave up after a while because my net kept getting snagged.<\/p>\n So for the first time ever, I tested my life jacket.<\/p>\n Have you seen those guys fishing with just a lifejacket and floating down a river? If the waters are calm, it could be a thing. Just don’t think about the monitor lizards, snakes (huge ass pythons), sea snakes (all are venomous btw, though there is a decent chance they won’t envenomate you when they bite), and all other manners of invertebrates that could get at you.<\/p>\n While I played in the water, Nick spotted this baby squid and scooped it up with his hand.<\/p>\n We headed out about half an hour later and used our freshly caught wild prawns to fish and I caught 2 more cuttlefish on both rods.<\/p>\n Both cuttlefish were released unharmed.<\/p><\/div>\n As expected, the weather turned sour.<\/p>\n Nick, decided there was time for him to get back to watercross before the rains hit but I continued fishing into the evening.<\/p>\n I eventually caught these guys<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n