We’ve been big on fishing lately, we’ve always been keen but my partner recently finished work and now we have all the time in the world, so every nice day we’ve been getting up at 5am to head out to the local reservoir.
For these fancy fellas. Redfin Perch are an introduced species here in Aus which means they have no bag limit, no size limit, and are recommended not to be thrown back. They’re aggressive fish that hunt by ‘beating’ an area which means they sit in schools of large numbers and disturb mud and vegetation to send worms and food flying. So moving hooks works better, making it a really engaging way to fish rather than just ‘throw out line and pray.’ We’ve just been using night crawler worms and reeling them in slowly and we caught eight fish in an hour.
We’ll be taking them straight home to dunk in tempura and deep fry the little guys.