92cm FLATHEAD PB!!!

[flickflack]

Hi All

After a few good sessions up at the pin with a few fish in the 80's I decided to try in the Tweed for the big girls. I got my pb from there last year at 89cm so wanted to chase them hard this year to try and break 90. I jumped out of bed as soon as the alarm went off and after a bit of indecision over the weather decided to chuck in the wet weather gear and head out. Put the boat in and headed for one of my favourite spots. On the first drift I had a good hit and set the hooks into what felt like a good fish. It was a short tussle because of the heavy gear I use when chasing them but when the big girl came up next to the boat I went a bit shaky. The Flattie had a head like a shovel and even though I had a huge net it was a battle to get her in there. I headed over to the bank and convinced an oldie on the bank to take a few pics for me. A quick measure and she went 92cm woohoo my biggest Flattie yet!! I popped her back in the water and watched her swim off. An awesome morning in spite of the weather.

Cheers Roderick

[flickflack]

the release

[_Dan_]

Very nice fish mate... Congrats

[Jeremy]

top stuff Rod.

Jeremy

[fish2eat]

yep......she's a beauty

good on you for releasing her, even though you could have kept her, in NSW you can keep one flattie over 70cm.

[gregdeeth]

congrats on your pb, that girl is huge, its good to see some big ones coming from down this way. awsome photos from your bystander too.

[Murks]

excellent work mate and well done on the release

[Fisher4life]

Top stuff, and as mentioned above, it's good to see that you released the big girl.

Congrats on the new PB

[Creek_Vermin]

nice fish! what did u catch it on?

[JasonT]

Nice fish Rod!
Seems the fish don't care too much about the weather!
I've had better luck on overcast and rainy days than I've had on fine clear days..!

Thanks too for releasing it! I can't bring myself to keep the big ones either! They're too important.

Jason

[StevenM]

Cracker of a flatty Rod

Now you'll be chasing the three figure job

Excellent PB

Cheers

Steven

[mickstar001]

Thats a cracker FlickFlack Well done.

[keen_as_mustard]

Rod - top fish that!

In future though to make sure you have a photographer on board, let me know when you are going and I'll come along - might even bring a rod or two

See you at the Classic

Marty

[Nelster]

mate looks like a turned down a good fishing session this morning.. o well these things happen..
but now that the tonsils are gone .. i'm not going to get sick some much..
sweet fish mate .. i'm sure that will be on the front page of the brag book and in the next fishing column.
cheers.

[Big_Ren]

Wow Rod. You're a man of many talents! What a beautiful girl. Congratulations on your PB and maybe your "oldie" photographer has just snapped the cover pic for the next NSW FM????

Cheers
Paul