When I was younger we used to target the river perch every April ( From Memory) Always a sunday afternoon because if dad was not working on a Saturday he would be listening to the races. ( Sacrosanct kids not allowed to speak so we used to take the dog and go and play in the bush).
Fishing gear was cord lines on wooden spools.
Walk a mile from Ekibin up to the tram at Chardons Corner and catch a tram into town where we used to buy a shillings worth of prawns form the bait shop that used to be under the Victoria bridge and then walk up past the Grey Street ( William Jolly ) bridge . We would fish to dusk and half fill a sugar bag with perch not many forkies those days but dad would occasionally hook into a jew which he had no chance of landing.
Then a repeat of tram and walk back home and then clean the fish. We would never take more than half a sugar bag of fish as in those days we did not have a fridge and kept everything in an Mawson ice chest.
Iceman came 3 days a week delivering from a horse and cart. Milkman ,baker, also by horse and cart and paperman rode a horse with the papers in large bags over the withers;
All the fish scraps were fed to the chooks after some of the heads were boiled up to make stock.
Fish for the five of us till Wednesday which was grocery day when my sister and I would then walk from school up to Manahans the grocers at chardons corner and meet mum and we all used to carry the grocerys home.
Sorry for going off subject I tend to remissness in my old age and waffle on. Life was so much simpler in those days.
Cheers Ray
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