fishing garfish

My favourite rig for garfish as indicated below is the floating bait rig (as i call it myself)

A rig which enables long casts ... as far as 50mtr away with weighted floats ... mainly bubble floats half filled with water

and below is the typical set up for the floating bombarda

 It's the perfect rig for when garfish are staying far away from shores

best timing of the year for fishing garfish is from late August till mid December

Quite fun fishing this type of fish around in Maltese waters .......

This garfish fishing method is at it's best during early morning hours lowers by time and gets best again at around noon ...... stays good until sunset hours but is not productive as soon as the sun sarts setting away .... it's time to say good bye to the lovely surroundings and get back home to prepare your meal ......

How to cook garfish ..... 

My best and so this is the one and only garfish preparation that is good on the face of the planet is GARFixxx deep fried

remove head from fish ...... remove internal parts and off you go .... wrap the freshly caught garfish in flour and off to the low cholesterol frying pan which has boiling oil ready to go

Back to the fishing method:

mela ......... cast as far out as possible and start retreiving as soon as float touches water ...... start retreiving at a very low speed and this is the best part ......... the secret to garfish fishing

Watch out for garfish movement behind your float ... this is the test ... an eye test actually

so garfish fishing gives you a real eye test ... that is why i do not check my lenses at the optician. I just prefer to wait till October each year and test my vision on my friend the Garfish

ooppsss what about bait ....

start on Koreano worms or fine slices of bacon strips then move on to garfish slices freshly caught fro live stock as your target start being suspicious