Smallmouth yellowfish

Amazing trip to the Vaal for club trials, tough fishing but managed to land my first 3 Vaal smallmouth yellows 💪🎣

Caught on a Garlic Float, Earthworm & Fluoro Backing Combo 💪🏻🎣

Although Reece wanted to come out, the cold in the morning wasn't for him and dulled his enthusiasm to actually fish. Nonetheless, I kept changing his lines out. Eventually, his line ripped off, and the energy levels were past 100%. But something was wrong,his line was stuck, but I wasn't going to allow him to lose this fish. So I stripped down to my undies and waded into the frigid waters. Low and behold, I got the line unstuck, and Reece managed to land this beautiful looking yellow.

Moments later, as I was still redoing my rig from the previous catch, my right line screamed off. Up and till then, I was using a single bottom hook Rietvlei rig with two small banana floaties and a soft banana dough backing and banana garlic spray on the ball. This line was cast as far as possible.