Flathead fly patterns

[bazza_mundi]

Hey guys,

One of my mates has just started fly fishing and is very keen on catcching a flatehead on fly. Could you Please post some pics of good fly patterns for flathead and any helpful hints.

Happy fishing
Bazza_mundi

[wessel]

Mate

I am nowehere near Aus, but in the waters around here the odd flatty is taken on occasion.
Nobody that I know of target them specifically, you could have guessed when mates of mine call them FUGLIES. (You work that one out.)

The ones that were taken were all bycatch in the mouth of an estuary, fishing for other species at the change of a tide.

I would hazard a guess and say Intermediate line, anything with a baitfish profile on a size 1 hook. That would be my uneducated guess, but I am sure that there a few experts lurking here who might part with their secrets.

Best of luck

Wessel

[Jack_Lives_Here]

3 types - clouser, clouser and clouser. ;)

[waggy]

I have done well with Clousers, Pink Things, Bend Backs, Deceivers and a Deceiver/Clouser cross ( like a big deceiver with lead eyes) all of which are easy to tie. I don't think Flathead are too fussy. If it moves along or near the bottom, they will eat it.
You can use a floating line with a long leader with the weighted flies when you are fishing the shallows, or an intermediate line for the same flies as well as the Deceivers.
I like the weighted flies around structure as they present the hook point up which minimises snagging up, and lets face it, Flathead like to lay around a bit of structure like a rock or log. All the best.
Ray

[killitfillit]

scottie's flies down near the border is the man to talk to and from my experience bright orange with a splash of black is the colour for lizards