After a flatty for Pirtek Challenge...Wello Pt

[rob316]

I had a 3 hour window to get a fish for a flatty this morning , 0500 until 0800 , before family commitments stole my time away...it was a failure and went something like this...
0430 - out of bed and off to Wellington Pt , 15 mins of driving in the rain praying it would soon stop...
0500 - Sitting under some picnic shelters near my launch point looking at very dark skys and it pouring rain...
0530 - still bloody raining and I don't want to get wet...
0600 - looks like it might slow with the sun due to make an appearance soon...
0610 - on the water , light drizzle but showers are passing more southerly now so might get an hour and a half in...
0700 - fishing shallows , maybe 3-4 ft of water , where I usually get flathead without trying most trips , none showing yet...
0800 - after rainbows , showers , clearing sky then greying sky again I have to pack up and leave , no flathead , not impressed !!!

Was using zman prawns , squidgy variety and atomic hardbody lures , caught 6 small squire , about a dozen bream , a sole and some steroid induced pike...glad I made a contribution to the prostate cancer cause anyway - trendy hat and bragmat was a bonus - the flathead are lucky I had some "younger taylor" to attend to or I'd still be hunting them...

ps..taylor = last name - not the fishies !!!

[BrisbaneJamie]

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[YakAtak]

Looks like a fun session all the same mate, good on you for getting out and for a good cause.

[LittleSalami]

Sounds like my morning. I tossed up fishing Wello Pt for the Pirtek, but decided that if the fish were to be either whiting or flathead then I should try somewhere more flathead looking. I went to Bribie instead hoping that water coming out of Ningi Ck would have flathead lying in wait for bait fish and a fat bloke on a kayak. Lots of paddling and lots of rain saw me with one bream and one flatty that spat the hook at the yak. Bugger! Nothing to measure. Oh well maybe next year.

[rob316]

Hey Jamie , been married 20+ years now...it's not the wife I'm worried about anymore if I am late , its the damn teenage daughter - NOW THAT'S TROUBLE...!!!!
And Wello wasn't my first choice , but my "local" didn't have the tides right this morning for me , I may even get a chance to flick a lure late this arvo for a 2nd chance...unless my afternoon "nana" nap gets extended...

[billpatt]

I tried the Well this morning for a Flatty, nothing there either. I managed a couple of 50 or so cm trevs but no flat fish.

thinking of walking out to King for a try, not sure if I could be bothered but.