Bemm River, Victoria

We travelled onto the town of Bemm River (well it is sort of a town, it has a pub and a very small shop and doesn’t sell fuel). It is located on the coast just east of the town of Orbost in Victoria. We spent a couple of very successful days here fishing in Sydenham Inlet in the boat.

Aidan and Cody did most of the fishing, flicking soft plastics around and pulling in bream and flathead, one after the other. Aidan’s comment at one stage was “This is soooooo much fun, and soooooo much better than sitting at school!”

Aidan was quick off the mark both mornings, pulling in very impressive sized bream and flat head, but, much to his disappointment, Cody always came back pulling in the bigger fish. Cody’s record sized fish were an impressive 40cm bream and a monster 65cm flathead (which we re-released). At the end they were bringing in so many flathead we were letting them go as we had already caught the maximum legal bag limit (not something we do very often!!). They were just enjoying the sport of catching them.

We all very much enjoyed eating fish for dinner for a couple of nights, particularly Michelle who was most impressed that the boys were catching one of her favourite eating fish – bream!

Cody also is the current holder for the smallest fish caught. We tried a bit of fishing one night off the banks after dinner we were having no luck, just enjoying a pretty sunset when Cody did one more cast and pulled a tiny little bait fish.

Something we did see down there as well was a whale which had apparantly died at sea and had been washed up into the inlet. It was a sad but very interesting sight to see.