School Holiday Fishing

[Smithy]

Just the photos I have myself or customers sent back. Still waiting on more. Did a 12 day stretch there at one stage but three of those days ended up being on the river chasing gar which have been going good this year.



Family arvo with dog, nephew, me girl and father-in-law.









Few cobes starting to get around.





The usual gold spots in the same sorts of areas.

[Smithy]

Other random stuff.

Nice 5kg local red in 43m.



Few parrot and hussar with him.















Soft plastic sessions.

[Smithy]

A bit before the school holidays the mahi mahi were still chewing.











A sharked trag.

[DALEPRICE]

nice rob.
you gettin the trag in closer as i havent caught any under about 58m?
seems to be a few about this winter. some pretty happy customers with those fish.
cheers dale

[Smithy]

Yep Dale in on 53m.

[two dogs]

thanks smithy i loved the family day shots

[Donny Boy]

Onya Smithy..........Great Work & Great Pics.

Any of the above will do nicely thanks.........except for the Sharked Trag.

PM me for address details...

should I expect them by Monday, or when hell freezes over ??

[Plumb-Ezy74]

Thanks for the pics, nice for a local red got to be happy with that, seems to be a few more legals one around this year either that i am just hearing about it more.
Cheers Scott

[LostNearBribie]

Great stuff Rob.
Are the gars for bait or do you eat them?
Looking forward to a plastic session soon.

[Smithy]

I've been keeping the smaller ones for marlin and mackerel baits and the customers got the big ones to eat.

[trueblue]

how many inches long do you reckon for the marlin baits Smithy?

[Smithy]

There's a chain of thought that smaller is better so they just crash it and swallow it all in one motion for a better hookup. 8" body are good. The ones you buy for bait are often a lot smaller than the 3x2s you catch yourself and are that 8" sort of size. The best bought ones I have come across were from Townsville at Dale Weldon's shop I think it was. The gill plates were torn on some being netted like most of the bait ones are but the quality was great and they still had a flouro blue stripe on them.