Author Topic: Microfishing & Miniatures Gallery (Read 166580 times)

kaptein delarey · « **Reply #81 on:** October 02, 2013, 08:44:24 AM »

Great!

I have a couple of micro catches from a couple of months back that I could post, but I'll try and get out there to catch a couple of 'fresh' micros.

Will keep you posted.

Cheers

kevf · « **Reply #82 on:** October 02, 2013, 10:44:16 AM »

haha WK, cant say it was on purpose-but a fish is a fish! I think it was on a #6 or #8 on 12lb braid using mud prawns

Flashback Rob · « **Reply #83 on:** October 02, 2013, 11:46:36 AM »

A size 18 nymph landed this beaut.. A wild rainbow in a mountain pool near the Lesotho mountains.

Flashback Rob · « **Reply #84 on:** October 02, 2013, 11:59:22 AM »

A number of years back a mate and i had great fun targetting Malawi Ciclids on small flies..

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #85 on:** October 02, 2013, 12:02:43 PM »

That is so awesome!!!

kaptein delarey · « **Reply #86 on:** October 02, 2013, 01:50:14 PM »

Those Malawi cichlids look a lot in build like our canary and dwarf kurpers.

Very cool!

Cheers

kaptein delarey · « **Reply #87 on:** October 02, 2013, 01:59:28 PM »

Here's the smallest I've caught thus far.

A mosquito fish of +/- 35mm

Want to catch one much smaller as soon as they come out for summer.

Cheers

VISCHAL · « **Reply #88 on:** October 02, 2013, 03:03:55 PM »

Here is my smallest.

kaptein delarey · « **Reply #89 on:** October 07, 2013, 11:53:09 AM »

OK, I beat my previous smallest fish by almost 1cm this Saturday.

The pre-spawn bass weren't in the mood fir biting, even when presenting lures on their heads, so I turned my attention to the micros.

Caught this Western mosquitofish on a tanago hook and small piece of white rubber lure.

She measure in at a teenie 28mm in length! Used a R1 coin for scale.

Underwater shot. If you look closely you'll see the red mark where I hooked it through the upper lip.

Most of the city dams in and around Joburg are teeming with mosquitofish at the moment.

Now I have to catch one that fits on a R1 coin ...

Cheers

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #90 on:** October 07, 2013, 11:54:20 AM »

Beautiful

kevf · « **Reply #91 on:** November 01, 2013, 05:50:30 PM »

umfolozi river, mapelane side. on a little bit of sard. ID please? A soapy?

kaptein delarey · « **Reply #92 on:** November 05, 2013, 04:45:35 PM »

Quote from: Willie on October 01, 2013, 07:08:50 PM

Great photos and some lekker fish there. Ok we need a comp the smallest fish. I will put in a Tica bait caster Caiman CA205 for the prize. BTW I have been micro fishing for a long time just did not knew it never took pictures hahaha but the truth was I was going for much bigger fish.

Pick me, pick me ...

23mm mosquitofish on artlure

The 'lure' and tanago hook used on far right.

Who else is still in the running for the reel?

Cheers

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #93 on:** January 09, 2014, 12:01:08 PM »

Smallish Blacktail, not quite micro, thought I would share anyway, this was the smallest fish I managed to get the beginning of this year.

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #94 on:** February 17, 2014, 09:31:09 AM »

VISCHAL · « **Reply #95 on:** February 25, 2014, 09:31:45 AM »

My pb miniature

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #96 on:** February 25, 2014, 09:37:59 AM »

Thats awesome!

kaptein delarey · « **Reply #97 on:** February 25, 2014, 10:23:32 AM »

Fished an artlure league at Loskop this weekend and managed to pick up another 2 new species.

The first one is a true micro namely a river sardine/glassie (Mesobola brevianalis) that I caught on a tanago hook and small piece of Powerbait. We found huge schools of them, but they still weren't easy to catch.

The second new species was small, but just a juvenile Largescale yellowfish that I at first thought was some kind of ghielie.

Cheers

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #98 on:** February 25, 2014, 10:35:53 AM »

NICE!

gavin erwin · « **Reply #99 on:** February 25, 2014, 12:01:35 PM »

Brilliant stuff so cool to see!!!