I am thinking no clear water big tides less fishable time in good spots. So off to the daly we go me the missus & the 2 little eels. Fish friday arvo only to drop 1 good fish as the water was like soup. On the way back up stream i am saying big tides bad fishing less movement would be better.
Get back to sinclairs & the mother in law had arrived with pop & the 2 liitle eels think its great Grandmas here.
Its grannies first trip to the daly & all she mentioned was cherrabin fishing & how the chokers on the other side of camp caught 4 Barra. 
I politley told her that if you want to use bait then not around me. 
Saturday comes round & nobody is keen to move due to the ice hanging from the windscreens of the cars bl..dy cold. Its 9.30AM & we decide to go fishing.I am thinking waste of time big tides & now freezing cold. So all day we fish for no result, can see the fish but they just won't feed nobody is catching anything not even the cherabin chokers. The stress of not catching fish was playing on my mind bad had a dummy spit & what do you know the Missus hooks a ripper at The S-Bends 79Cm high fives all round
Run down stream a little & show off our fish to the mother inlaw whom by this time also had the sads from not having a touch all day. Again she brings out the cherabin line.
she asks what lures we are using & I suggested 1 go deep & the other go shallow. So she puts on a lure that swims 1mtr bearing in mind this lady can only use a handline,
Yes she is Primative 
She just can't use a rod even at 60. Off i go upstream & leave them to themselves following us trolling. As i get to the end of my run I turn around & can see them in the middle fighting a fish. 15 Minutes later & burn marks on the hand from a silly handline & the fish is in the boat. High fives & cheering broke the silence of the peacefull suroundings with about another 8 boats around clapping & not believing that this granny just landed the fish of a lifetime A HUGE 112CM BEAUTY on a handline trolling
I jumped from my boat to help handle the fish so as not to harm her after six very quick photos she was back in the water within 3-4 minutes. I swam her for about 2 minutes to the snags,She boofed my hand about 5 times so when i let her go she just tail smacked the boat & bolted.
That was all the fish we caught for the weekend retired happy & now there is no more mention of cherabin chocking.
Photos to follow tommorrow so stay tuned.
