A great session on the blackfish

YESTERDAY WAS GOOD BUT TODAY WAS SENSATIONAL

THE UPPER GEORGES FIRES ON BIG BLACKFISH

What a great days fishing with my two partners in crime Norm Jeffery's and "Fishraider' Mark Night. We had a wonderful day yesterday and a beaut. bag of fine fish, but to day they really came on the chew.

As I've always said "It is great to fish with blokes who are masters of the art of black fishing" and it is an art.

A bit like fly fishing for trout, working out the best runs, the right flys and the best techniques to outsmart the fish .

Well! To fish with Norm Jeffrey's, who probably has passed the (70 to young bracket) is for me a prive ledge, not only is he a great conversationalist, which is so good on a blackfish session, but he too is a humble man who has forgotten more about blackfish than most of us will learn.

Why wouldn't any sane man want to rub shoulders with him?.

He has fished the Georges for 50 years and can pick when the fish have moved off to the next eddy in the tide He can say "Drop down 6inches here Roscoe" and low and behold the bites come gain.

I admire men that have accumulated such knowledge and go through their fishing life with total dignity and a reediness to help others, a fine man and a great mentor to fish with.

I have met other knowledgeable black fisherman and most of them older than me.

My great mates at Laurieton Brain Perkins and Jack Elliott and the late Bado, they too have taught me much of which I will be eternally in the dept.

You see blackfishernman are a special breed, they always take the good with the bad and after a bad session may say "Well they didn't bite so good today, but it was most enjoyable and Ya wouldn't be dead for quids…would ya!"

Maybe as we get a little more mature it is this form of fishing that attracts us I'm not sure.

Some say to me "Why would you want to go fishing on your day off!"…I reply ' "Cause I love it".

Black fishing has been in my blood now for the past five years and whilst I spend a couple of hundred days a year catching yellow fin, marlin mahis etc for our clients…. when I go black fishing it is for me personally, no customers, no pressure, no rocking boats…………… Just me and a couple of friends.

On a lonely river with an occasional screech of a white cockatoo or a white-bellied sea eagle hovering in the sky looking for a mullet Somewhere in the timber a magpie calls

Yeh! that's what I love about black fishing

The serenity as you watch your float as it dips and then slowly goes down "Don't strike to early but don't leave it to long either!

You lift your rod and feel the weight and your on……That's what I'm talking' about

We fished a session on the Georges today in near perfect weather and for all of us the fish bit so well

Roberta I watched my float instead of the other blokes, on your advice and caught 14 beaut fish

We all had a great time…….Good conversation and a great session on the Georges,

Shame you missed out Swordy………………………. See you tomorrow.

As usual Norm was champion angler with Mark and myself were right up his exhaust pipe.

I will try to attach photos These fish are caught in NSW on green weed we use a tiny no 8 hook and a balanced float They are great to eat and better to catch

Captain Ross Hunter