Flathead St Kilda Pier

Lagoon Pier, Kerferd Road Pier, Station Pier, Princes Pier, Webb Dock Port Melbourne
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Flathead St Kilda Pier

Post by enrioray » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:50 pm

September 16th, 2017

Hi fellas! Just here to give you guys a report on these flatties i caught at St Kilda pier. I was fishing in the incoming tide using soft plastics with bright yellow color. I was fishing the right side of the pier as the wind was blowing quite strong from the left side of the pier. Then i started casting the lure, made it sink to the very bottom, pause for 5 seconds or so, hop hop, retrieve the slack line, and pause again. Did that for like 30 minutes until my first one at 8.30 pm when the tide was almost high. the bite was on the pause. The other one i did it differently: i cast it out, let it sink, the retrieve it very very slowly just to crawl on the sand. Then the flatty hit it again. I also did bait fishing with pillies and squid, caught nothing but this creature. i think it was eel. what do you guys thing? is this edible? or perhaps good for bait?

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Re: Flathead St Kilda Pier

Post by Lightningx » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:57 pm

Nice report mate! Gotta love a feed of fresh flattie tails.
Enjoy the feed :thumbsup:

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Re: Flathead St Kilda Pier

Post by Nude up » Sat Sep 23, 2017 5:36 pm

A couple of nice flatties would have been a nice evening

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Post by Fish-cador » Sat Sep 23, 2017 6:06 pm

Hey mate. Did you catch anything from lagoon pier? We met and chatted there last weekend. I was the one using stradic reel.

Nice fish...

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Re: Flathead St Kilda Pier

Post by enrioray » Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:50 pm

Fish-cador wrote:Hey mate. Did you catch anything from lagoon pier? We met and chatted there last weekend. I was the one using stradic reel.

Nice fish...
hey guy with stradic :victory:
got nothing on that day. 3 bites but couldnt set the hook tho. Did you actually go to st kilda pier after that bad results at lagoon pier? any fish?

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Re: Flathead St Kilda Pier

Post by Fish-cador » Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:52 pm

I went to mordialloc. Some small salmon around but the wind was NNE and 20 knots. Not good for lures.

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Re: Flathead St Kilda Pier

Post by enrioray » Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:53 pm

Fish-cador wrote:I went to mordialloc. Some small salmon around but the wind was NNE and 20 knots. Not good for lures.
so you caught those salmons using pillies?

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Re: Flathead St Kilda Pier

Post by Fish-cador » Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:55 pm

Plastic lures

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Re: Flathead St Kilda Pier

Post by Tim399 » Sun Sep 24, 2017 2:13 pm

The eel looks like a worm-eel. I'm not sure how they go as bait but I have had a flathead spit up a small one once before so at least flathead will eat them

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