Mad morning in the sandy straights(pics now posted)

[chewy01]

Pushed the boat in at river heads round 5.15am and headed 10 mins to my fave flattie spot. Put on the well worn bananafish bomber droppod the minn kota into the water and motored in.First cast im onto a little flattie round 45,2nd cast another round 55.ended up with 5 in nine casts at this spot. moved down to another spot and got another 6,the biggest going 68.all were released as i was chasing whiting later.Chasing as it turns out was the operative word.picked up a couple here and a couple there,but had work pretty hard for them.I poked the boat into a shallow drain, lifted the big motor and was nudging the bottom with the hull fishing for whiting when 20 metres away there was a huge explosion in the water.a big blue salmon was into a heap of gar. i clipped on a chrome long a bomber and cast out.unfortunately i only hadmy flattie spin rod.2nd cast this blue behemoth falls in behind my lure,then engulfs it 5 res from the boat.Only now seeing the size of this thing does the stupidity of what i have done hit home.This thing took off faster than anything iv hooked before and culdnt chase it coz im aground.i tried to motor out but was too shallow.i lookd at the reel and was into the backing already. it hit the deep water hit afterburners and the 2o lb backing popped.luckily the barbs were squashed on the bomber.As soon as the pressure came off he came to the surface thrashed about and the lure came free. i motored over that way and ended up with braid round the prop,but at least it wasnt still in the fish.All went quiet then so changed location. got onto a few nice whiting on the top of the tide.enoug for a feed.Bite went off so i dopped the kota in and moved along the island.no flatties but lo and behold a goldy bout 5 kg was tailing on the yabby bed,i cast out my squid rod with a small bomber on it and it was ind in no time.i played it for about ten minutes,got it close to the boat before the hooks pulled.None to worry it was going back anyhow.With the northerly blowing hard now i headed off home with a good feedand my faith in the salt restored.Briing n more of those blues... they are nuts..

[chewy01]

Photos to follow after a beer n a kip...

[Benno1]

fruitfull morning Chewy...brought home a decent feed by the sounds of it...nice one ...looking forward to the pics...
thanks for the report

Mrs Benno1

[Walker]

Pushed the boat in at river heads round 5.15am and headed 10 mins to my fave flattie spot. Put on the well worn bananafish bomber droppod the minn kota into the water and motored in.First cast im onto a little flattie round 45,2nd cast another round 55.ended up with 5 in nine casts at this spot. moved down to another spot and got another 6,the biggest going 68.all were released as i was chasing whiting later.Chasing as it turns out was the operative word.picked up a couple here and a couple there,but had work pretty hard for them.I poked the boat into a shallow drain, lifted the big motor and was nudging the bottom with the hull fishing for whiting when 20 metres away there was a huge explosion in the water.a big blue salmon was into a heap of gar. i clipped on a chrome long a bomber and cast out.unfortunately i only hadmy flattie spin rod.2nd cast this blue behemoth falls in behind my lure,then engulfs it 5 res from the boat.Only now seeing the size of this thing does the stupidity of what i have done hit home.This thing took off faster than anything iv hooked before and culdnt chase it coz im aground.i tried to motor out but was too shallow.i lookd at the reel and was into the backing already. it hit the deep water hit afterburners and the 2o lb backing popped.luckily the barbs were squashed on the bomber.As soon as the pressure came off he came to the surface thrashed about and the lure came free. i motored over that way and ended up with braid round the prop,but at least it wasnt still in the fish.All went quiet then so changed location. got onto a few nice whiting on the top of the tide.enoug for a feed.Bite went off so i dopped the kota in and moved along the island.no flatties but lo and behold a goldy bout 5 kg was tailing on the yabby bed,i cast out my squid rod with a small bomber on it and it was ind in no time.i played it for about ten minutes,got it close to the boat before the hooks pulled.None to worry it was going back anyhow.With the northerly blowing hard now i headed off home with a good feedand my faith in the salt restored.Briing n more of those blues... they are nuts..

5 Flatheads in 9 casts sounds almost too good to be true, with another 6 to follow?!.

[chewy01]

mate these slot limits are the best thing the dpi has ever done.my mate got 4 in his first five casts a while ago. i didnt get a line wet till after that coz i had to rig up and net his fish.20n flatties in a morning here is not uncommon.I dont fish for them much anymore but would hate to see what damage you could do if you put in a full day just fishing for them.My son and i got 29 in a morning similar time last year,but a lot of those were big females full of roe.I wont target them on those tides again. best to let the big girls do their stuff.They literally sit on top of each other at this time of year.You just have to know where and when.

[DEANO68]

on ya chewy, sounds like a fun morning,,i have fished the southern end of the straits( rainbow beach / cowrie crk area) a bit but never seen gts tailing on the flats, are they more so up that way than the sourthern end.????sorry we didnt catch you at mondy for a beer...next time for sure...
cheers deano...

[IRMC000]

Chewy you beauty

[the gecko]

Keep those reports coming mate. Not long now, and I'll be a local. I hope someone can bring me up to speed on the local rivers.
Ive never even heard of Blue Salmon.....

cheers
Andrew

[chewy01]

Tx guys for your positive comments,dived down quickly this morning to see if they would play the game.Ended up with 15 summers between 28 and 32 cms.the flatties were very quiet,there were half a dozen dolphins milling round just near where i got em yesterday so maybe they put em off.Andy outfished me on the flatties this morning getting three to my one.Biggest was only 58. kept two for the better half.Only one small trevally.unfortunately witnessed an eagle ray about 70 cm across get eaten by a whaler about 10 metres from the boat. where we have been fishing there have been a lot of eagle rays cruising and jumping but this one jumped then the shark grabbed him as he landed,then had another go. Iv got a pic of the resulting boil. im off to watch the footy at a mates but have tmoz off so ill post all the pics then,or tonight if i havent had too much to drink

[chewy01]

Pics posted,yhe big boil is the remnants of the poor old eagle ray

[chewy01]

more pics!!!

[IRMC000]

Awesome stuff Chewy - you make us weep.
Robert

[Walker]

mate these slot limits are the best thing the dpi has ever done.my mate got 4 in his first five casts a while ago. i didnt get a line wet till after that coz i had to rig up and net his fish.20n flatties in a morning here is not uncommon.I dont fish for them much anymore but would hate to see what damage you could do if you put in a full day just fishing for them.My son and i got 29 in a morning similar time last year,but a lot of those were big females full of roe.I wont target them on those tides again. best to let the big girls do their stuff.They literally sit on top of each other at this time of year.You just have to know where and when.

Thats unreal, Good onya!!! Well thats flatty fishing I am definitely envy of! Good pics.

Paul

[TonyM]

Sounds like a top couple of outings Chewy - don't those Salmon scare the cr@p outta you when they jump at the boat?

I'm hoping to get up the Susan sometime this week as it's been too long since I last went - hopefully I'll get to tangle with a few blueys myself.

Cheers
Tony

[chewy01]

Hi Tony, hey there were a couple big threadies working the drains up the outside of kangaroo island the other morning.they are getting them further up too. hope you get onto a couple.