Flathead offshore
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Re: Flathead offshore
added a few more today. One followed the bait to the surface in 16mtrs. Dropped the line back and hooked up straight away. never seen them do that before. :water:
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Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (River Rat to Mole)
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Re: Flathead offshore
Finally got some "tinny weather" so crossed the bar at dawn before sunrise on the start of the flood tide. Nice smooth crossing except for the long weekend traffic. You feel very little when there are a few large vessels zipping around in the half light.
Headed back west on the beach and tried 16mtrs. Well a few bites then a little flathead about 30cm. Sent it back to grow. Quickly followed with a nice 45+cm one. Then zip for an hour. Moved shallower seeing it is just after the full moon. Just lots of little bites. So moved out to 17mtrs and got wacked big time on my lightest rod. Yep the familiar gummy feel, peeled a heap of line of as it was only a 4kg rod and it was bent double. Finally it got sick of the pain in it's mouth and turned back. So wound in about 30 mtrs of line and started working it slowly up. Could see it about 10 mtrs down, yes a gummy not huge but plenty of life in it. Finally got it to net range and did the usually dance and shimmy of a single handed net and line exercise. Just got it in the net and the boat lurch and I tipped it back out. It saw freedom and immediately dived. Lucky I have a habit of slacking off the drag as I go to net a fish. So now its back down out of sight. Worked it all the way back up and didn't stuff it up the second time. Landed a nice not overly large gummy. Yeah ha! :water:
didn't get another decent bite after that.
Was a cracker day out there so hung around for a while and headed a bit deeper to some rocks. Past a shark working some bait on the surface but couldn't get close enough to I.D. it. Small bronzy maybe.
Oh well it was a feed and beats stopping home doing house work or mowing lawns.
Headed back west on the beach and tried 16mtrs. Well a few bites then a little flathead about 30cm. Sent it back to grow. Quickly followed with a nice 45+cm one. Then zip for an hour. Moved shallower seeing it is just after the full moon. Just lots of little bites. So moved out to 17mtrs and got wacked big time on my lightest rod. Yep the familiar gummy feel, peeled a heap of line of as it was only a 4kg rod and it was bent double. Finally it got sick of the pain in it's mouth and turned back. So wound in about 30 mtrs of line and started working it slowly up. Could see it about 10 mtrs down, yes a gummy not huge but plenty of life in it. Finally got it to net range and did the usually dance and shimmy of a single handed net and line exercise. Just got it in the net and the boat lurch and I tipped it back out. It saw freedom and immediately dived. Lucky I have a habit of slacking off the drag as I go to net a fish. So now its back down out of sight. Worked it all the way back up and didn't stuff it up the second time. Landed a nice not overly large gummy. Yeah ha! :water:
didn't get another decent bite after that.
Was a cracker day out there so hung around for a while and headed a bit deeper to some rocks. Past a shark working some bait on the surface but couldn't get close enough to I.D. it. Small bronzy maybe.
Oh well it was a feed and beats stopping home doing house work or mowing lawns.
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There's nothing . . . absolutely nothing . . . half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (River Rat to Mole)
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Re: Flathead offshore
Good work and nice fish, :thumbsup: cheers davo
It's an exhilarating feeling catching a fish
But it's an even better feeling releasing them
But it's an even better feeling releasing them
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Re: Flathead offshore
Nice work mate :thumbsup:
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Re: Flathead offshore
Great read. Spewing you lost the big one. Hard to beat a good feed of flatties.