"Common catch that tastes great!"

Speedbird13 · Post by **Speedbird13** » Sat May 10, 2014 12:54 pm

I love this line in the forum entry.
The reason been is because THEY ARN'T COMMON! I have never caught a flathead and it's annoying!

Where are they guys? and im landbased, no boat. it has gotten to the stage where i could walk through the water saying "here flattie flattie flattie" and ill have just as much of a chance at catching them as I would with a rod and bait lol

Post by **sloth** » Sat May 10, 2014 1:10 pm

They are on the bottom mate

You fishing ppb or the estuaries? I've pulled heaps out of the yarra just by fishing soft plastics on the bottom hard up to the bank and at night. I'm landbased too. I chase bream and quite frankly flatheads are annoying as they generally trash my plastic. Anywhere from docklands down to the mouth should be workable. Look for shallows or natural choke points - they are an ambush predator and wait for you to hop your lure past them.

Bait - dunno can't help you - very rarely fish with it.

If you're going to eat a heap .... Further down in ppb might be a better option

Speedbird13 · Post by **Speedbird13** » Sat May 10, 2014 1:26 pm

what type of soft plastics? grubs?

thanks for the advice. Ive been fishing mordialloc pier, mordi river, patto river, flinders pier

Post by **sloth** » Sat May 10, 2014 1:31 pm

Grubs, squidgy wrigglers, squidgy fish ... Gulp sand worms. .... Pretty much anything works if it bounces into their strike zone.

Try the standard lift-drop-pause retrieve. If that's not working sometimes they go for a couple of really energetic whips of the rod... Mix it up until you get hits.

Good luck!

Post by **sloth** » Sat May 10, 2014 1:34 pm

Piers im not too sure off but fish the run out and choke points drop-offs etc. anywhere bait fish get funnelled into as the tide drops

Hopefully someone who picks them up in ppb can give better advice

Speedbird13 · Post by **Speedbird13** » Sat May 10, 2014 2:00 pm

by the sounds of it, maybe the mouth at patto river might hold flatties

Nude up · Post by **Nude up** » Sat May 10, 2014 2:11 pm

I can't help land based but from my boat if you are not on or very close to the bottom you won't get them. They are an ambush predator they lie on the bottom any thing moving will turn them on that is why soft plastics work so well on them.

Speedbird13 · Post by **Speedbird13** » Sat May 10, 2014 2:32 pm

Im inviting myself on to your boat Nude up.

Milk man · Post by **Milk man** » Sat May 10, 2014 2:41 pm

Speedbird13 wrote:I love this line in the forum entry.
The reason been is because THEY ARN'T COMMON! I have never caught a flathead and it's annoying!

Where are they guys? and im landbased, no boat. it has gotten to the stage where i could walk through the water saying "here flattie flattie flattie" and ill have just as much of a chance at catching them as I would with a rod and bait lol

i felt the same for ages when i started fishing the salt more often over the last 18 months or so. Then for some reason, i don't know why lol.. i just started catching them more and more often :dontknow

Nude up · Post by **Nude up** » Sat May 10, 2014 2:45 pm

That would be funny I just happen to be a lame for an airline we would have a lot to talk about. I often fish alone out of portarlington due to shift work. I broke my wrist in march and am just about to get the boat back in the water I will pm you next time I have a spot

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