Tweed River Sat 17th - Late Report

[Jack_Hunter]

Decided to brave the weather on saturday and fish the tweed for some flathead and trevally. From 8am onwards it was blowing 20-25knts and showery, which didn't make for very comfortable fishing. Throwing a variety of soft plastics and trolling small hardbodies the fishing was fairly consistant till about 1pm. With a mixture of flathead and tailor being caught. From then on it was dead.

One brilliant part of the day was my biggest flathead on soft plastics (74cm). Put up a great fight on 6lb braid and the light leader had me stressing a bit.

Total catch for the day between three of us was
10 flathead (6 under 40cm, then 41cm, 42cm, 49cm, 74cm)
4 tailor (30-40 cm)
mixture of bream, pike, and very small trevally

Just kept the three smaller flathead for a feed.

Ended up buggered, wet and freezing cold, but still smiling.

Cheers

[Jack_Hunter]

Hungry Bream

[Jack_Hunter]

Tailor

[Jack_Hunter]

Tailor

[Jack_Hunter]

Little Flatty

[Jack_Hunter]

74cm Flatty

[Jack_Hunter]

Another

[Jack_Hunter]

Double Hook up

[Tinn]

Very nice flathead guys where abouts in the Tweed do you guys fish?

[Jack_Hunter]

Generally fish between the main bridge and the mouth. Would have liked to get down the mouth more on sat but wind was a real problem

[T1]

Don't tell TINN anything, he is a Tweed guru... [smiley=thumbsup.gif] still trying to get him to take me there but i think he's scared that i might outfish him! Although, there doesn't appear to be any immediate danger of that at the moment!

Hey guys, that's a very very nice flattie there! Personally, i think Flatties fall to lures far greater than they fall to baits. Over the years, i have caught approx 5 times more on lures than baits and to be honest i think i am being conservative with that figure.

Great stuff and fully deserved in such crappy weather!

Take Care T

[White_Steenbras]

Great session mate, like the Lizard too! I bet you would have been a little worried on the light leader, I got one 96cm on 10lb about 5 weeks ago, very lucky to have lip hooked her perfectly.

Top effort and I'm sure the smaller ones tasted great.

Cheers Barnesy.

[aussiefool]

I know where you were but don't worry about me giving it away as I might try there myself next time

[Smailesy]

great fish

[john_steward]

jack hunter,
some great fish there. were you fishing from an ancored boat or drifting around? looks like you had a good day