My first (real) fishing experience and time back home

When I was around 4 years old our family went fishing, I can't remember much - all I can remember was that it was heaps of fun and that we were fishing in a fish farm (yeah no wonder they were easy catch!). This fishing trip has to be my earliest childhood memory!? This time when I got back home I decided it's really time to do some real fishing! After I announced this, my little brothers constantly asked me when will we go fishing? where will we go fishing? will we catch lots of fish? etc etc...

So we went to buy some fishing supplies at a local outdoor store. We got 3 standard fishing rods with reels, a bag of burley, 3 fishing bobber which comes with hooks (2 floats and the other one can do deep water fishing). Burley is used to attract small fish so that it will then attract larger fish - good idea! We confessed that we have absolutely no fishing experience and it consists of me asking stupid questions such as why are there 2 hooks? (so you have 2 chances of catching a fish), should you cast against or away from the current? (away from it otherwise it will come back to you haha). The guy showed us how to hook up the reel and cast the line, I must have looked super confused with the hand positioning during casting so he asked me to give it a try - perhaps not a good idea on his part cos I nearly destroyed their front counter (twice) cos I let go of the reel too soon!

We went fishing twice. The actual fishing experiences themselves were nothing short of disasters. We first went to Fremantle on the North Mole pier which is supposedly a very good fishing spot - but there were tonnes of rocks and the fishing lines kept getting stuck. Then we (ie the children) noticed that there were plenty of crabs between the rocks and started trying to catch some crabs with bare hands. I nearly got one after 3 attempts at 3 different crabs! We were there for perhaps 2 hours along with many other anglers (ha I like this term) whom looked rather pro but they didn't catch anything either! However during this time we have fished, crabbed and ready to leave lol. The second time we went to Port Bouvard bridge in Mandurah which again is supposed to have good fish and no surprise we didn't catch anything - again. It's a good thing that we did take some crabbing gear and got 4 blue manna crabs! mmm We definitely need more knowledge in and patience for fishing - but it's all good fun!

My plane leaves tomorrow afternoon for NZ - the 11 days that I'm back at home has gone by rapidly. Everyday, my mum would ask me - where do you want to go today? what do you want to eat today? (mmm does my mum make delicious food! plus she can make EVERYTHING!) And my little brother Yu literally begs me to play games with him all the time while my little sister Dong has so much to talk about. So yes, the work that I have originally planned to do over the vacation never actually happened lol. I have to say goodbye to my family tomorrow, I hate saying goodbyes. But isn't always like this?! I came back home really happy to see everyone, then I'm sad cos I have to leave, a couple of days later I'll be really happy meet with my sister and sad again to say goodbye! I hate myself for not being able to control this because this missing/nostalgia feeling is not fun. Arghh, human emotions are so hard to analyze let alone control!