Fishing with Cake

By now we have established that The Bloke and I are generally rubbish when it comes to fishing. One has to allocate suitable time, especially around changes of tide. The rig needs to be suitable for the species of fish, the bait needs to be appropriate and the hooks, sinkers etc appropriate for the depth one might be expecting to catch this fish. What can we expect to be there? How deep? We are absolute clownheads.

Lunch, dinner and lunch again.

We have not given up however and have had a modicum of success with a particular type of bait. A box of cake. It's not isolated success either. We've had sufficient success over the last couple of years to persist with it.

Box of mixed slices retrieved from the freezer and good to go!

Whilst in Macona Inlet recently we observed a prawning boat come in and anchor. The Bloke was immediately dispatched with some Ca$h to see if some prawns could be purchased. Success. However, seeing as the smallest quantity we could buy was 2.5Kg The Bloke had to pop back for some extra money. The prawns would be cooked, frozen and caught only a couple of days earlier. Perfect! How lucky that this guy was having some time off with the Missus and came into our bay. Knowing what a tough life it must be on the ocean in all weathers, The Bloke asked me for a box of cake slices as gift. No problemo. A box was fished out of our freezer. The prawner was so taken aback he insisted on a return gift. It was a small bag of cooked and frozen Moreton Bay Bugs. And that's a recent example of how we fish with cake.

They look a bit prehistoric but big tails are awesome.

PS The bugs were pealed and the tail meat heated in some butter with garlic, chopped chillis, cherry tomatoes, Pernod and cream and served on spaghetti. We declared our bait was the best so far.