Smoked In The Cooks

[Guest]

Had the great pleasure of having my good mate Smitty out on the Cooks River with me today in search of his first jewie on a plastic.

The day started off with a phone call at 4 am from Smitty who said he had slept in and I was still catching ZZZZZZZZZZZs and didnt hear my alarm either still made it to the ramp by 5 am.

We tried for a jewie early but had no luck so we gave the bream and flatties a good going over for 4 or 5 hours and did pretty well on plastics and hard bods with Smitty getting a black bream on a pink smilin jack.

Plenty of hits and misses and a great day out as Chris and I dont get to fish a lot together owing to me working shift work.

Later in the day it was decided the tide was right to hit my favourite jewie spot and we werent disappointed with a smallish fish almost straight away and high fives all around and then I cast straight back into the same spot and got smoked by a very good fish which didnt even give me a turn on the reel I was giving them a sporting chance with 4 lb fireline and a 12lb leader with a 4 inch flik bait in green and white on a 1/4 oz jig head.

Note to self ....dont give them a sporting chance and take the elephant gun next time

Thanks for a top day out Chris and hope we can do more of the same and get you your first jewie on plastics.

Cheers Swordie

[Penguin]

Some nice fish there Swordy and Smitty , bad luck on the smoking Jew

cheers

[Hodgey]

Good on ya fellas. A great assortment of fish A shame about the smokin', Stewy.

Smack 'em with the certate next time

Cheers

Skip

[outfisher]

Thats great fishin guys

nice jewie stew

cheers

[james7]

Great collection of fish there!

You've gotta go back and catch that jewie now. It only won round 1!

Cheers

Peter

[Tiger Cam]

Nice variety of fish Swordy & Smitty - well done

What gave way - the 4lb fireline / 12lb leader / knot?

Cheers,

Cam

[Guest]

Nice variety of fish Swordy & Smitty - well done

What gave way - the 4lb fireline / 12lb leader / knot?

Cheers,

Cam

The fireline was burnt off as the jewie ran through the pylons and my poor old T Curve has never been stretched that far before

The knot held fantastically with a 5 turn surgeon knot and 12 lb nitlon leader.

Cheers Stewy

[snag]

Good to see you boys getting into some nice fishy,

[slinkymalinky]

You'll get that big Jewie next time, Swordy. Nice work boys.

CHeers, Slinky

[sadamson]

Well done got to love the old cooks river.That green sp did it again.

Cheers Stephen

[bassboy888]

Awesome catch there Swordie. Unfortunate about the jewy, just leaves you wanting more!

[wannabefisho]

G/W swordie. Great session there and a nice mixed bag . them jews just dont play nice when you want do they

Better luck next time.

Tight lines

Anthony

[Scottakasid]

Nice job boys,

What a great day of fishing and its always the best story (the one that got away)??

Was talking to Smitty today and i tell you Stewy he was so impressed with that little real he was talking like he had just kissed his first girl??? I know what Smitty wants for Xmas oh yeah me to please Santa.

Ho Ho Ho have a great Xmas guys.

[Bream Mad]

Nice work as always swordie!

starting to crack some jews consistantly makes me want to give them a go as well.

good conditioned bream as well, many on the surface lures yet?

berowra creek is awful for bream at the moment.

I think maybe 27 deg water is a tad too hot for the bream. bass love it though

kl

[luderick -angler]

Stewy some nice reports from my old backyard there, it's been enarly 3 years since I fished there and damn the system must be getting healthy cause in 30 years I never saw awhiting that far up always manged the odd lizard and jew. well done!

[Joco]

NICE report, i wish i was there to witness you get smoked ALL those times in the Cooks.....

Like you said before, you should have brought the shot gun if you wanna crack that magic 100cm Jewie....

Thats one of my main goals this year, to crack that 100cm mark, with your knowledge maybee a double hook up....