baggersace
27-09-2013, 09:35 AM
Last Monday I had the opportunity to take my aging Father and my teenage son fishing around Jumpin-pin chasing the new season flathead. Putting in at Jacobs Well we moved towards the bar area , seeing the tide pushing in pretty hard we decided to move off to some more sheltered areas and chase the rising water over the flooding shallow weed beds.
After land a few small just under legal flatties, I decided to act as guide and let the two other enjoy what was a great day. Finding the fish we more active across the patterned weed and sand banks, I decided to start to troll the very shallow banks and bars.
The old man who had traveled several thousand km's to spend holidays with his son and grandson, had never caught a large anything from the salt water, so this was a special day.
Slowly trolling over a depth of 2 - 3 ft with the odd piece if 1.5ft we dragged some Atomic Hardz in the darker colours. My father 's rod god a large thump, initially thinking it was snagged he declared we was stuck on a log. As soon as I saw the two quick lunges of the rod tip I knew we were onto a larger fish. Slowly moving the boat the deeper water on the electric whilst coaching the old man, we let the lizard do it's best. Only after seeing the size off this big girl and the fact the lure was engulfed way down the mouth of the fish did I lean over and just tighten the drag just a little more, as my now highly enthusiastic but very nervous father was all dinner plate eyes at this stage.
After several solid runs and many attempts to gain purchase under the boat the big girl started to tire, I held the line, dragged the fish along side and lip gripped the biggest flathead my father had ever seen.;D
My son eager to show his grandfather how well he works on the boat, did everything perfectly, helping getting the fish in and photographing it quickly. The big girl was released and there were high fives all round. A great way to spend time on the water with 3 generations of avid fishermen. We ended up with 4 nice flathead ranging from 45cm thru to 56cm, and dropped about 4 others, using very light line, 4lb or 8lb.
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After land a few small just under legal flatties, I decided to act as guide and let the two other enjoy what was a great day. Finding the fish we more active across the patterned weed and sand banks, I decided to start to troll the very shallow banks and bars.
The old man who had traveled several thousand km's to spend holidays with his son and grandson, had never caught a large anything from the salt water, so this was a special day.
Slowly trolling over a depth of 2 - 3 ft with the odd piece if 1.5ft we dragged some Atomic Hardz in the darker colours. My father 's rod god a large thump, initially thinking it was snagged he declared we was stuck on a log. As soon as I saw the two quick lunges of the rod tip I knew we were onto a larger fish. Slowly moving the boat the deeper water on the electric whilst coaching the old man, we let the lizard do it's best. Only after seeing the size off this big girl and the fact the lure was engulfed way down the mouth of the fish did I lean over and just tighten the drag just a little more, as my now highly enthusiastic but very nervous father was all dinner plate eyes at this stage.
After several solid runs and many attempts to gain purchase under the boat the big girl started to tire, I held the line, dragged the fish along side and lip gripped the biggest flathead my father had ever seen.;D
My son eager to show his grandfather how well he works on the boat, did everything perfectly, helping getting the fish in and photographing it quickly. The big girl was released and there were high fives all round. A great way to spend time on the water with 3 generations of avid fishermen. We ended up with 4 nice flathead ranging from 45cm thru to 56cm, and dropped about 4 others, using very light line, 4lb or 8lb.
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