Fishing with daughter (4yrs)

The local waters can be hot and cold fishing wise for me so far this year.
But a recent trip with my 4yr old daughter was definitely hot - fishing wise

Just a couple of hundred metres from the boat ramp at East Arm the water was boiling with packs of fish harassing bait. We were heading to front of harbour (a 40minute run) but we stayed here all morning just puttering around on the electric motor.

For three hours we were hooked up to giant trevally to 45cm and if the fly got past them there were golden trevally to 65cm also present and eager to take the fly. The flies use were pinkish clousers and small surf candies about 4-5cm long. I used a full sinking line on a 7w TFO fly rod (one I won in a competition last year for catching a 53cm mangrove jack to win the category for Largest of Species - Snapper).

I just had to cast near the boiling mass of frenzied feeding fish to get a hook up. No long casts just a gentle false cast and land the fly 20m away - so easy. The one handed fast strip was interspersed with pauses here and there but once 2-3m away from the boiling fish, a quick water haul and back into the water near the fish.

Here is the video I did up for proud mum i.e. more of daughter than fishing but you can easily see the fishing action in between my cute daughter doing stuff like driving my boat and getting tangled in the fly line.