Dishin up a Smile/FFF Helping Kids...THE NITTY GRITTY : Landbased Fishing

Agent86

It was a great day had by all, well done Oldfart and Mrs, good to see all the fellow FFFr’s get together and have fun. Worked well and next year will b just as good.

We had a ball on our boat, the rivalry started after about half an hour, i think it was 3 all, small goldies for the 3 kids we had on board. Nomad and i were kept flatout busy, dehooking fish, rebaiting, explaining the techniques over and over again, but the smiles from the kids were worth it!!!
We saw a dolphin, turtles, even fed a couple of the local birds, the kids were amazed when a big sea eagle swooped down between Shane’s and my boat to pick up a fish, i think Smed had the wind go past as the bird swooped past his hat!

There were little fish at every spot we tried, we were lucky, after fishing the river for a few years it wasn’t too hard to find them, i said to the kids we were aiming for 10 species, but we could only manage 7.

I think the end score was over 50 for the boat with 2 of the kids catching 16 fish and 1 bagging 17, and i actually managed a couple of littlies in the half a dozen drops i was able to make between the frantic action from the youngsters. Best fish was a nice blue salmon, a cod, and then a pansized Goldie that was caught, other fish included Javelin fish, little tricky snapper, puffer fish, and another type of cod. One of the lids got smoked by something a little bigger, suspect a smalljew or a good goldie, drag was tightened a little too much during the run.

Pics follow to show you they had fun.

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What a great Day!!

nomad

Thanks again shorty for organising the day. Great effort
It went off without a hitch on our boat and was full on action.

When they started out, the kids weren’t keen on handling smelly bait but by the end of the day, they had guts all over them.

It was funny to watch them when they started out as they thought they had a fish on everytime the sinker bounced off the bottom! But by the end of the day, they were yelling out “Yep, I’m on” just like the rest of us do. :mrgreen:

86, the final score was 14, 17 and 18 fish plus the lost big one when ‘someone’ did the drag up too much.
I can’t remember seeing so many smiles in one day. Our motto was ‘Fishing is fun’ and they sure had a lot of fun.

Well done to all who put in the effort :clap:

smed

Computer drving me insane....I have to upload one at a time.....

smed

Happy Camper

SteveB

Fantastic to see. Well done all, but especially to OLFART.

smed

Some top people & their boats

smed

Some rough buggers

smed

Slaying the bream

smed

And again......Cheers & Merry Xmas to all involved.

olfart

Dropped a nice card and a small pressie off to Jamie at BCF, on behalf of FFF forum, as a gesture of appreciation for her input to Mate's Day. Also contacted their Head Office and gave her a wrap. :cheers:

graham

jeffish

Hi gang
Well its been a week since mates day and I,v still got a smile on my dial

, I was at work on weds and this young kid came up to me and asked if i had a big blue boat, to which I replied yes ,he thanked me and all the orther men that took him fishing last w/end :applause:

How cool was that he wasnt even on my boat,he must of been on Shanes 50 fish boat :catch:

,,,,

Hope you all have great xmas and lots of tight lines in the newyear :fishing:

Ho Ho Ho

Cheers
Jeff
p.s olfart i,ve just heard you,ve been put up for a sainthood by the Pope :angel:

sorry 86 just read back through the posts you had the 50 fish boat, good job mate

olfart

jeffish wrote:

Hi gang
Well its been a week since mates day and I,v still got a smile on my dial

, I was at work on weds and this young kid came up to me and asked if i had a big blue boat, to which I replied yes ,he thanked me and all the orther men that took him fishing last w/end :applause:

How cool was that he wasnt even on my boat,he must of been on Shanes 50 fish boat :catch:

,,,,

Hope you all have great xmas and lots of tight lines in the newyear :fishing:

Ho Ho Ho

Cheers
Jeff
p.s olfart i,ve just heard you,ve been put up for a sainthood by the Pope :angel:

sorry 86 just read back through the posts you had the 50 fish boat, good job mate

In future you may refer to me by my correct title..Saint olFFFart of the Smile... :lolpoint:

Merry Xmas to all. :cheers:

Graham

Agent86

yep thanks jeffish, good to hear someone said hello!!

good on ya saint oldfart

Looking forward to next year already, everytime i look atthe pics i smile and think of the kids.

have a happy chrissie all!! and may you catch more fish and have a better year next year.

I know if i do it will be a great year!!! :-)

cheers

Smartie

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