Fishing Trip to SA's West Coast

[StinkyPete]

For the last two weeks we've been on a fishing trip to Elliston on SA's West Coast with our daughter and her family  We all used to go there on a regular basis when the kids were little, and it was time for another family holiday to this great location.   There's a very productive jetty, cliff top fishing for sweep, and three or four salmon beaches, and some lovely cliff top drives and walks.  While we didn't get onto the salmon as they were always at a beach other than where we were on the day, we did have some good sessions fishing off the cliff tops, and the jetty was firing for squid and tommies.  We've come home with an Engel full of fillets.

It was a lovely family holiday, and we were able to spend lots of quality time with the grandies and our daughter and her hubby.

[Sicman]

Very nice Pete 

[alans1100]

All Ok - except for the fishing bit

Better not tell Heather and Tammie about all the fish over there or I'll have to take them over.

[ST2UP]

Ahh got to love coastal fishing...that's what we did every waking hour as kids growing up on the coast.

They haven't made a snapper lead big enough for me to clear the breakers from where we call home at the moment 

[Sicman]

Pete would have been arrested and fined in NSW for not wearing a life jacket while fishing off the rocks 

[ppopeye]

Glad you had a good trip. Looks like fun.

[Biggles]

Great to do what you love with the people you love.
You can keep your squid, but great to hear you managed to fill the esky.

[StinkyPete]

Here's the disastrous sequel to our Elliston Holiday.    Upon returning home we put the Engel fridge full of packets of fillets in the caravan, with the van plugged into 240v to power up the Engel freezer.   There was probably 40kg of fish fillets.

A week after getting home when checking the van I noticed a slight smell, and assumed that the caravan fridge probably needed cleaning.    A week after that, the feint smell was worse, and when I checked the back of the Engel, the plug has been kicked out, probably when unpacking after we got home.  I did not bother opening the Engel in the caravan and carried it outside and plugged it in to power it up from the meter box to freeze whatever disaster was waiting inside to make it easier to handle and less smelly.     A week later I removed the packets and packed them into multiple thickness plastic bags and placed them still frozen into the bin on collection day.   I have smelled some bad things in my day, but even when re-frozen this took the cake by a long shot.   

This little disaster cost us 40kg of beautiful fish fillets, and our old green top Engel fridge freezer from which we have not been able to eliminate the smell. 

[Bodø Glimt]

That's no good.

[PC]

Hey Pete try 50/50 mix of detol and water wet a rag rub it around liberally then wash off  see how you go
You can also put mixture in a spray bottle and spray around    Another remedy that I used to get mould smell from wet carpet out of cars when I was detailing was to cut an apple in half (sometimes two depending) and put in car for a couple of days

[Brock]

Try a bowl of Bicarb soda, its supposed to absorb stink stuff.

Even try setting to max freeze, and leave it running for a week, that will kill bacteria that makes bad smells

[StinkyPete]

We've managed to save our old green Engel fridge/freezer which lost power when full of fish fillets, all of which went rotten, leaving stink that rivaled anything I've encountered before, and drove away the blowflies. (Read my post above)
Well we've managed to save it with lots of washing, sunshine, carb soda, refreezing, metho, anti-bacterial treatment, repeated over and over again.   I left it shut and turned off for a couple of weeks, and upon opening, no smell at all, and it still works.   

[richo]

 . Well done. I knew there was a reason I do not eat fish.  They are too hard to clean up after