The cleaning tables at Sweers are well set up with a snap freezer nearby. Novices can watch the experts, Ray and Tex, clean the fish in no time at all, although most fishos like to clean and pack their own. There is a big freezer back at the resort which can easily store the biggest catch. After a long session at the cleaning tables, a superb three course meal was much appreciated. Both Lyn and Salme are creative cooks, and of course fish features heavily on the menu.
Drinks are on a self-help honour basis.
Overnight the wind howled, but by morning had settled down to a steady 25 knots. After a leisurely breakfast we decided to send out a couple of floating baits under balloons from the beach while we caught some live bait. Bream congregate along the edge of the sandy beach near the cleaning tables. The size of these would make any southern bream fisherman's eyes water, yet they use them for live bait up here, and they are easy to catch. A small unweighted hook baited with a piece of gar is all that's needed to catch these bream.