Recent Random Fishing Action

[Smithy]

Snapper on the sounder above bait.

Tough day but got some in the end.

Snapper sounding around.

Active snapper on the drift above bait.

Seal off Mooloolaba. Waiting on the better pics from customers.

Good quality for soft plastics.

Soft plastics session.

Andy and an AJ.

Rob's dad.

Andy and an almaco jack.

[Smithy]

The iBlossom girls.

Leaving the harbour on a calm Sunday afternoon.

The couples.


Paul came good first with a good pearly then a morwong.


Dave was unlucky with a red emperor going 5cm undersize so we had to put it back.


Bag of AJs.

New Rocket Launcher will make life easier.

Rob's 88cm Snapper.

John and a soft plastics mack tuna.

Karl and a kingy.

[Smithy]

Creek to Coast Shoot.




Week of cobia.


Brian and a good one.

[Smithy]

Murdoch with one on his jigging gear.






Murdoch's dad getting a yellowtail king on the jig.

Murdoch with another jigged one.

Live bait caught one.

Local dolphin.

[Smithy]

Ryan's fish.


Kreel's best one.

Again.

On the truth mat.

The haul.

Some trag jew.

[Benno1]

Top stuff Smithy!!!

[honda900]

Nice work Rob, pleny of happy customers. How do you find the garmin sounder compared to the furuno?

Regards
HOnda.

[fisho8]

Awsome lot of fish there Smithy I definatly need to come out for a run with you mate.

[Smithy]

Since the transducer wiped itself out off the Furuno I have been making do with the little Garmin 400c the boat came with and it is doing a ripper of a job. I have certainly found it better to mark the snapper the last two weeks like in the sounding shot above. It has always been hard to separate the snapper from the bait with the Furuno and I have only ever marked one mid water snapper school with the Furuno and that was this year at Caloundra Wide where we went on to get 12 or so in the middle of the day till the show dissappeared. I know Jeffo had the combo equivalent in his father-in-laws Mustang and he could mark Marlin left, right and centre with the Garmin. For a budget unit they are bloody good.

[dan12345]

great pics mate a tribute to the quality of your buisness

[No Fear]

There's some great fish there Smithy. More interesting is the seal. Read on here that they are at Ballina at the moment as well.....Whats going on there? Should there would be a few toothy critters following them around. No snorkeling for me!!!
Great report and photos

[TREVELLY]

Some magic trips there Smithy - the dolphin is neat.

Thanks for sharing.

Pleny of cobes too - happy clients - well done

[smclaren]

Whats the story with almaco jack's, Rob ? Are they common ? Are they a by-catch of Ambers/Kingies ?

[Shawn 66]

Since the transducer wiped itself out off the Furuno I have been making do with the little Garmin 400c the boat came with and it is doing a ripper of a job. I have certainly found it better to mark the snapper the last two weeks like in the sounding shot above. It has always been hard to separate the snapper from the bait with the Furuno and I have only ever marked one mid water snapper school with the Furuno and that was this year at Caloundra Wide where we went on to get 12 or so in the middle of the day till the show dissappeared. I know Jeffo had the combo equivalent in his father-in-laws Mustang and he could mark Marlin left, right and centre with the Garmin. For a budget unit they are bloody good.

Smithy ,
I have the same unit , (Garmin) , what tranny are you running , dual beam or dual frequency ?
Thanks,
Shawn

[Bremic]

Since the transducer wiped itself out off the Furuno I have been making do with the little Garmin 400c the boat came with and it is doing a ripper of a job. I have certainly found it better to mark the snapper the last two weeks like in the sounding shot above. It has always been hard to separate the snapper from the bait with the Furuno and I have only ever marked one mid water snapper school with the Furuno and that was this year at Caloundra Wide where we went on to get 12 or so in the middle of the day till the show dissappeared. I know Jeffo had the combo equivalent in his father-in-laws Mustang and he could mark Marlin left, right and centre with the Garmin. For a budget unit they are bloody good.

Smithy, what model was the furuno? Was it one of the digital models 620 or 585? Just wondering if it is a problem with the digital models "filtering" out some of the information that you would had to interpret yourself with the older models. I haven't had the opportunity to fish with one of these newer digital models, only the older 582.