[Davey G]

Was on the water at around 10am and decided to drift with soft plastics for flathead to see if they're starting to wake up from their winter slumber.

got a couple of follows from flatties and flounder and caught one Ok sized (28cm) flounder on a berkely 3" minnow. unfortunately the little fella had gobbled the jighead so, despite my intentions of chucking him back, he's now my daughters dinner tonight.

A couple of chopper tailor were caught on the sp's and I dropped one down into a deep hole hoping for a jewie. there were a couple of interesting readings on the sounder - looked like good sized jew holding along the edges of the drop. however no action.

trolled a halco laser pro 45 and a halco scorpion 35 back and picked up a nice 50cm flattie and dropped another one right at the yak....off the water by 12.

good to have a quick paddle and catch a couple of fish..

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

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[abitfishy]

Hey Dave

Good to meet up with you today for a test paddle.

Thought you'd get a couple of flatties - so where did you pick that one up from - looks pretty tasty to me?

Martin

 

[beefs]

Nice one Dave - looks like you've picked up dinner

Regarding those large Jew shaped objects on your sounder - what size SP you send down in front of them? Picked up some large Sguidgie Minnow type SPs the other day - in the 6" range, might be the trick?

 

[Davey G]

Travis... mate a 6" soft plastic would be great on jews. I was in serious strife today if I'd hooked one as I was only using my light rods...but it would have been fun while it lasted. :?

Martin.. no worries re the paddle..hope you find something that meets your needs soon, and look forward to catching up for a fish. Flatties were in around 1.5 metres of water only 300-400 upstream of where I launched. The flounders were pretty much straight out from the beach.

Red, yes mate, the esky is a beaut... If I ever get stranded on a desert isle in my kayak at least i'll have cold bait!

 

[paffoh]

Mean looking flathead!

Kinda jelous you get mid-week yaks :evil:

Nice work...

 

[Peril]

Nice one Dave

 

[YakAtak]

Nice feed between the little flounder and the flattie Davey, I'd be a happy camper after that effort.

 

[bazzoo]

nice one Dave , have paddled down here with lillypilly kayak club for 10 years and never seen a fish caught, you must have the touch

 

[Russ]

Oh he definately is touching something thats for sure. But nice fish just the same Dave.

fishing Russ

 

[Dodge]

Nice lizard Dave.

A tip with touchy jew given to me by our jew champion at Pt Mac years ago.

Fillet a big chopper...fold length wise so that the flesh is outwards and skin in..weave your hook length ways down the bait so the line is sewing shut the folded fillet as you go and locate the hook finally near the thick end of the bait...he used 9/0 hooks.

He got many jew on this rig when other baits including livies were not succeeding, and claimed the softer feeling bait was getting the result.

Have often wondered if this would be worth a try on kingies as it must put an enormous scent trail out behind trolling

 

[Russ]

:shock: Bloody hell Richo I would eat that myself Yum

fishing Russ