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La Casa Kingfish

  

Want to escape to paradise and fish some of the best temperate waters in NSW? Then the Jervis Bay Marine Park is for you. Why not spend a couple of nights at 'La Casa Del Pescador' (home of the fishermen) and relax with all the creature comforts. During the day explore the inshore reefs and dropoffs while chasing monster kingfish and snapper and why not have an underwater DVD made of your experience while you're at it, perhaps capturing the fish of a lifetime.  

The house

Available for rent on a weekend or weekly casual basis is a brick beach house at Callala Bay, only 10 minutes walk to beautiful Jervis Bay and 2.5 hours drive south of Sydney's CBD.  With plenty of off street parking, 'La Casa Del Pescador' is close to shops and boat ramps at Callala Bay and Currarong, which puts you right in the action.

The dive boat

A 4.2 metre zodiac inflatable with 30 hp outboard including fishfinder and nav aids is available for hire to make sure you get to all the fishy spots. In season species include kingfish, snapper, jewfish and crays.

Facilities

Queen bed, double bed, double sofa bed. (sleeps 6)

TV, CD, VCR and DVD player

Washing machine, microwave, oven, stove fridge, large yard

Fully furnished

Spearguns and other freedive equipment is also available on request

Nightly Pricing

All prices based on 4 people per booking, unlock extra bed for $30.00 per night

Peak includes Dec-Feb (kingfish) Easter and all long weekends $160.00 pn

Off peak all other times $140.00 pn

No minimum nightly booking

Boat hire

Full day hire only $100.00 pd (excluding fuel) max 4 pax

Includes life jackets for 4 pax, fishfinder, flares, paddles, gear tubs, esky

Boaty/dive guide and photographer available by arrangement

Deposit

A deposit is required on reservation. Contact me here for enquiries and bookings and watch this space for pictures and events at exciting Jervis Bay.

     

November brings with it the start of the yellow tail kingfish season for many of us temperate water spearos, and the chance of an early summer king brings many punters back to the water. Wetsuits and equipment are snatched from winter dormancy, spear tips earnestly sharpened, frayed bridles and notched mono replaced and once idle outboards hum to life, game on. There are no second chances with these power houses of the ocean, a dull spear, a weak clip or a poorly tied rig will be thoroughly tested by a large king.

The news is good with recent early catches in Sydney's southern and eastern suburbs as well as the NSW south coast, its time to decide where to put in for the upcoming weekend. With constant rain and runoff inputting pollution plumes along the Sydney shoreline all week we motor for the south coast. .

Southerly swells have pushed clear cool waters inshore making for a very divable 15 metre vis. clear enough to see the school of legal sized kings approach along the bouldered bottom. I dive infront of the school which surface toward me and before long a 75cm fish is making its way along the floatline, entree.

Hunting the main course, I find myself lying in the bowl of a large rock still contemplating the snapper I had seen earlier, were there more?, perhaps I should berley? I am roused from musing by a school of incoming torpedos, sleek, fast, immaculate. They arrive as one and circle above my position in the bowl, curious, perplexed.......bang......the short double rubbers snap and the wounded fish explodes away carrying the 7mm shaft. Under tension now it turns and the shaft draws a large arc, bending. The fish sounds, its weight and power strain the rig, i let go of the gun and anchor the fish above the rocks with the float line. We fight until her power is spent and I can wrap my legs and arms around it. Knife drawn, our eyes meet, today it all comes together and I issue the coup de gras.