Smitty

Sounds like fun!!! Would be great to put faces to names and have a chat. I've got some busy weekends comming up but would love to come along if I get a chance. Cheers, Smitty...

Congratulations Rick and woodch0p, very nice bag of fish there! Great to see yet another FR member enjoying what the harbour has to offer. Cheers, Smitty...

Hi Bill, and to fishraider. Thanks for the intetesting read mate, it made me think back to my early fishing days too......the lessons we learn hey ! One thing I also learned young was that you can never get to much information from the older blokes who have been doing it for years and have it wired! Good luck with your blackfishing this time around, with an older and wiser head and all the info form Roberta and other Raiders you should have no trouble at all. The Shoalhaven area sure is a nice area to give it a try too . Looking forward to seeing the reports of your successful blackie exploits. Cheers, Smitty...

Happy birthday Raiders many happy returns for the day. We'll have to catch up over a blackie session very soon Paul. Cheers, Smitty...

Stewy, I hope you have a fantastic day mate!!! But I dont think you will be getting any presents, I reckon you got em all in one go about 6 weeks ago !!! Take it easy my friend, I'll talk to you soon. Cheers, Chris...

Looks like a photo I saw on a mates phone at work today, is one of your mates Anthony?? Top bag of bream mate well done! Cheers, Smitty...

Geez Bruce that weed is crazy.....the beaches around the JB are usually so beautiful. I though the first photo was of a rock platform when I saw it! Cheers, Smitty...

When you leave the ramp are you travelling upstream or downstream??? (away from the ocean or toward it). The system is designed so its port to port and starboard to starboard when you are travelling in from the ocean. The colours will always be back to front if you're travelling downstream. Smitty...

Thanks for a great read Nicnat !!! You lucky buggers, sound like you had an AWSOME time. That sure is some quality time with your young bloke. Cheers, Smitty...

Hi Raiders, I had some yard work to do this mornin....and it was pretty warm in the beautiful autumn sunshine (geez a coldie would've hit the spot but the cupboard was bare). When I was done I went inside for a while to cool off. I went back out a couple of hours later and couldn't believe the difference....a cool breeze had picked up and I remembered that the cool weather is on its way. Anyway, I got thinking about the good and bad things about the cooler months to come. What are your pros and cons for the cooler months to come??? Here's my shortlist. Pros: Coolweather species (blackies, salmon YFT etc), Hot showers, My combustion heater, Cons: Getting out of a warm bed in the morning, COLD, Gets dark too early, What have I missed??? Cheers, Smitty...

Sometimes they're used as litte umm...shock absorbers to prevent sinkers damaging knots etc. I use them above some floats to stop small "stoppers" going through the float eyelet or sometimes to stop small hook eyes going inside sinkers. Hope that makes sence

Seems you enjoyed youselves and caught some nice fish in trying condition pmak...congratulations. Plus you did exactly as the wife asked.... mate you should be in the good books for a while!!! Thats something else to thankfull for. Happy easter, Smitty...

Nice litte warm down session there fellas...congrates. Smitty...

Got myself some weed, and....yes i'm gunna try the georges for Blackies tomorrow. Early start and give it my best shot. Tides arent great but its better than sittin around the house! Hope everyone has a fantastic long weekend!!! Smitty...

Hey there, if you do a Wiki search on "sea lettuce" you'll see the stuff fishos call cabbage. Cheers, Chris...

Well done Rickster, some very nice blackies there mate! Were you fishing west of the bridge? Cheers, Smitty...

Hi Raiders, Headed down the Harbour this morning with good mate and fellow member Stingrai in search of some nice Blackies. Recent reports had our hopes and our confidence soaring! We arrived at our chosen location at first light - the tide was just starting to run out. After a bit of burley the Blackies came out to play and it wasnt long before the first fish was in the bag. It was a bit of a patchy bite though and by half tide we had only landed half a dozen fish.......oh well it coulda been worse. They went totally of the bite shortly after and we decided to pull stumps. Tried another spot quickly on the way home but no cigar!!! Had a great morning anyway and we caught some nice fish for the table as a bonus. Here are a couple of pics of our dinner guests (all between 32 and 37cm). Catch ya later, Smitty...

Good stuff breambo, glad to see that a trip to the Hawksbury paid dividends for you and your dad. Dont ya just love it when the fishins so fast that eveything becomes a blurrrr! Cheers, Smitty...

Hahaha, love it!!! May be a promotion on the cards?

Some nice looking fish there Rickster - well done mate. Gotta love foul hooking fish...they always fight above their weight hey? Lucky you had that second trace on!! Should be heading down that way to give em a tickle up later this week, there seem to be some nice fish around at the moment. Cheers, Smitty...

I've just secured myself a nice pile of fresh greenweed and I've been told that the Georges is loaded with Blackfish at the moment . The wife is having a perfume party this weekend - no prizes for guessing where I'll be!!!

Hi Raiders, Headed out this morning with Scottakasid and his future father-in-law (another Chris!!! WE are everywhere I go ). The plan was to give Chris, a Melbourneite, a look at Sydney from the water and hopefully pick up a few flathead and leather jackets for the table. As most of you would know, Sydney turned on a beautiful day and I'm sure our southern visitor was suitably impressed , just a pity we didn't do a bit better on the fishing front. The tides weren't ideal for my usual flathead haunts in the Lane Cove river but we perservered and managed 4 nice flatties between 40-45cm, thanks mostly to scott and his trusty blade (I didn't bring any blades with me and they outfished plastics 4:1). Then we had to move around a couple of times before we could find the leather jackets ........ and when we finally found em it was our victorian friend opened the innings. We ended the session with 4 flathead, 4 LJs, a flounder, plenty of laughs and a nice cold beer . All in all a fun day on the water with a couple of great blokes and I hope we can do it all again some time - well most of it anyway. Here are a couple of pics from the day.. Couldn't resist this one!!! Cheers, Smitty...

Happy Birthday fellas, hope you both have a great day! Smitty...

The fish my mate got was caught whilst boat fishing at night using live prawns. But dont let that put you off, just keep fishing and you never know what'll turn up next. I might even give Chippo a go over the weekend, I've had reports of some good fish being landed! Good luck everyone. Cheers, Smitty...

So its not a first hey, this one came from the Chippo area also! Thats interesting Anti-carp, any size to the silvers?