After yesterdays trip (see murphy strikes again in offshore reports) todays trip to the pin area chasing flatties went like clockwork, the only problem was some one forgot to invite the flatties to where we were fishing.Have to also admit that we only fished for 4 hours (7-11am) for a total of 7 flathead caught, lengths were 42,51, 62,65,67,71 and74cm with the big one my mate's Mick, best on plastic yet. All of the fish came on the first 2 hours of the run out tide while the water was as clear as, once the water dirted up (normaly our favorite time) we couldent pull a hit so after 2 hours of nothing we decided to have an early mark. Mick did drop one fish that was over the 80cm mark, he got it to the boat only to watch it spit the hook and settle back to the botom (3 foot of crystal clear water) on dropping his plastic back in front of it, it grabed it again only to spit it again after a couple of short runs away from the boat, tried to tempt it again but it had lost interest in playing.
At one stage I hooked a small flattie (aprox30-35cm) and when I got it near the boat we could see another flattie of around 65-70 cm) following it, I stopped the retrieve and the big flattie hit the small one that hard it knocked it off the hook, once free they both swam off with the small one following the large one. Plastics used, myself- 100mm squidgie shads in TNT, black opal and evil minnow plus 125mm bozo mullet in an orange and yellow colour, these were all used on 3/8 and1/2 oz 5/0 TT jigheads. Mick used just the one plastic and it was a 7 inch gulp jerk shad in pink on a 1 oz 10/0 TT jighead.
Cheers Ian
PS also hooked a turtle on the shell but managed to do an in water release geting the hook out with no harm to the turtle or ourselves.
Micks 74cm flattie
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