As the forecast was for FINE weather on the GC, i decided to take the young fella south of brissie for a fish down the pin, we've only ever hit the river.
Target species was bream, and the plan was to fish some blades on the dropoffs, and then plastics and hb's on the edges and tops of the banks as the tide flooded.
After an early morning shower or five, Elliott's head had dropped and the rod was back in the holder for a while. It was cold windy and rainy and no fish. I was much keener at age 9 or 10, but these days with XBOX's and PSP's they expect constant action.
Top of the tide i got a few rat bream, a just legal and some small trevs on shallow chubbies in 2 foot of water. Poor E could not cast far enough to get a hit in the shallow stuff. I threw some out for him but he couldn't convert the hits.
Tide turned and we found a sandbank fringed by weed and by casting onto the sand and coming over the weed we found a patch of flathead that saved our day.
Despite the pain of losing my favourite brown suji chubby to a lizard (6 lb leader DOH DOH) we ended up with a few nice ones and six or seven throwbacks in about an hour. (Keepers went 45, 50 and 58cm)
My Ecogear CK40 was great on the technique, rod held high i was just brushing the top of the weed on a slow roll, the bigger profile meant they did not swallow the lure deep.
Best of all the deckie caught his first flathead, and all of a sudden he was now really excited! Had to leave them biting, so took the fillets off and the heads went to the pelicans at Jacobs Well ramp.
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