Well I hope I am not begining to sound like one?
Hit my favourite spot again this morning at 3:30am.
Had upped my leader to 15lbs after being smashed twice yesterday morning using 8lb. It is always a balance between light gear and landing capability.
Anyway, tide was at the bottom of the run out. I was flicking into the drop off and sure enough after about ten casts I was on! Nice little flattie, went 46cms. Nice eating size so into the keeper bag he went. Loaded up again, threw it out and I got hit hard. This thing was peeling off line. I am not sure what it was but it was jumping out of the water and putting on a real acrobatic display. I could be wrong but in the dim morning light it looked a bit like a salmon? Do you get salmon up the northern end of the Pumicestone passage? Perhaps a tailor? Back to the story, in between big runs and me battling to get back a bit of line it jumped about 6 times doing mickey flips and cartwheels, then put it's head down and headed south. Finally with my drag screaming it jumped once more and it threw the hook!!!!. Still great fun, once again as the sun was coming up, it was a beautiful spectacle.
So, re-rigged another Gulp Minnow Grub paddle tail chatruess????is that how you spell it??? (See in pic, got em in USA. Cant seem to get that style here in Caloundra. Anyone know where I might get them? Don't care what flavour just want 3inch. Flatties go mad for em). So off I went flicking my plastic. Cast out and didn't even touch the reel to retrieve and felt the telltale thud!!!! Counted to a million (ok, maybe 5 but geez you gotta hold yaself back dontchya??). Struck and ....yep.... nice bit of weight there. After a nice little dance in came a 57cm jobbie! Once again nice table size so into the bag he goes.
Kept throwing in but it shut down. Same story every morning I hit this spot. Bite window is 30 mins. I was back home filleting them by 6am!
Anyway, hope you enjoyed my rerun of previous posts of late!!!!
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. have you considered trying zman plastics? they have 4" curl tailz in chartreusse and a few other colours. i know thats an inch longer than requested but they do catch flatties. also, the store "that cannot be mentioned on this site" sells gulps in that pattern although they would be called a curl tail rather than a paddle tail here. i would tend to agree with tim that you may have been onto a tarpon or a giant herring with those acrobatics.
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