OB1
31-01-2008, 10:55 AM
My wife gave birth to out first child on 29/11 and I've spent the last 2 months trying to come up with a way of attaching the car capsule to the boat ;) .
On the wife's insistence I left little Thomas at home and took the boat to the pin for a plastics session with my brother on Aus Day. The wind was blowing 25 knots and all my usual spots were murky and wind blown. Searched around for a new spot that had some cleaner looking water. Found a spot where the wind was blowing over a sandy bottom (just 2 foot of water) and the clarity was a bit better. Casting a 4 inch chartreusse gulp minnow up into about 1 foot of water I got nailed by a good flathead. I was only fishing 2kg line so a slow fight finally saw the fish in the net - at 79.5 cm it was a great fish for this time of year.
We thought it might have been a fluke catch but a few casts later and I'm on again this time a 51 cm fish that went into the esky. within 10 minutes I was onto another good fish this time another throw back at 71cm. My brother was getting a little edgy as he had not hooked up at this stage. He does not fish plastics very often and still lacks confidence in them. Just as he was complaining about his lack of luck he calls, "I'm on" and leads a fish to the boat. He calls it for a small fish but when it hits the deck it measures 59 which was his PB, and all the sudden he is all smiles (he later also lands a 55 and 42 completing his conversion to the darkside).
All in all we fished this spot from 6pm to 7pm and landed 15 flathead taking home 4 for a feed.
A great session on a day I thought we would come home empty handed. Now if I could just fit that car seat in the boat.....
Cheers.
Ollie
On the wife's insistence I left little Thomas at home and took the boat to the pin for a plastics session with my brother on Aus Day. The wind was blowing 25 knots and all my usual spots were murky and wind blown. Searched around for a new spot that had some cleaner looking water. Found a spot where the wind was blowing over a sandy bottom (just 2 foot of water) and the clarity was a bit better. Casting a 4 inch chartreusse gulp minnow up into about 1 foot of water I got nailed by a good flathead. I was only fishing 2kg line so a slow fight finally saw the fish in the net - at 79.5 cm it was a great fish for this time of year.
We thought it might have been a fluke catch but a few casts later and I'm on again this time a 51 cm fish that went into the esky. within 10 minutes I was onto another good fish this time another throw back at 71cm. My brother was getting a little edgy as he had not hooked up at this stage. He does not fish plastics very often and still lacks confidence in them. Just as he was complaining about his lack of luck he calls, "I'm on" and leads a fish to the boat. He calls it for a small fish but when it hits the deck it measures 59 which was his PB, and all the sudden he is all smiles (he later also lands a 55 and 42 completing his conversion to the darkside).
All in all we fished this spot from 6pm to 7pm and landed 15 flathead taking home 4 for a feed.
A great session on a day I thought we would come home empty handed. Now if I could just fit that car seat in the boat.....
Cheers.
Ollie