Lota with SP's

[Captian_Zero]

After watching the Squidgy Secrets DVD that Santa gave me during the week I was keen to get out and give the SP’s another try.

The first modification to my technique I made was to replace the 6 kilo mono trace with 3kilo mono.

The first squidgy (65mm wriggler in bloodworm) hit the water at 5am at Lota from the bank near the creek mouth. I concentrated on casting around where the water was draining from the banks and after about 20 casts I hooked up to a 20cm flathead. A good start. The bloodworm wriggler then accounted for another 4 flathead in the 20-30cm range. I decided to change to a Squidgy silver fox wriggler as I could see a lot of small fish in the shallows and hadn’t had a hit on the bloodworm for a little while. This accounted for another two flathead 25-30cm and to my surprise a 25cm whiting.

I then decided to try a few of the other plastics I had with me and got another small flathead on a Berkley 2” power grub in pumpkinseed before switching back to the bloodworm wriggler for what was to be the last small flathead of the morning.

9 flathead (although none of legal size) and a whiting has convinced me that these SP’s may be worth persisting with!! My confidence is definitely boosted after a couple of recent fishless attempts with the SP’s.

Regards

Chris

[SNAFU]

mate,SP's are way to go for flathead.so much fun when you get some around 60+ cm on light gear.
SNAFU

[Dr_Dan]

Just got back from Thursday Island. Had a ball flicking SP's over the reef flats for all kinds of reefies, including good coral trout. They certainly do catch fish!

[Dylan_Rylatt]

nice fishing cz,
Good too see your fishing progress since you have joined this site.
unlucky not to pick up a legal flatty but on another day they all coulda been legals

Dylan

[vertico]

a mate of mine was down there the other day and picked up a small jew and some nice flathead, keep at it plastics are the way of the future

[Scalem]

Hi Chris,

I am new to SP's too, and I reckon that the amount of success I am having in the bay is amazing. If everyone else is having this amount of success, they will have to reduce the bag limits again or there won't be any fish left! Slight exaggeration?

If you have a boat, or a mate with one, you will see that the bay snapper really go ape over SP's, and it is that reliable I can tell the missus to expect snapper on the table for dinner..

Scalem

[agnes_jack]

Good on ya Chris!
Good to see you getting the hang of it. Keep at um.

Regards, Tony

[Captian_Zero]

Thanks guys

Had another shot in the same spot this morning. Another 4 flatties in the 25-30cm range all on squidgy bloodworm wrigglers. No feed but good fun anyway.


Regards

Chris

[drdonjuan9]

are you fishing from a boat or wading or from the shore?
ive fished that are many years ago without success. only managed to get stranded on the sandbank for hours until the tide came up again.
cheers mate,

[drdonjuan9]

oh yeah btw: i just wanted to ask you guys where have the snapper been in the bay, i've never caught one on SP and am very keen to do so.
I heard around the brizzi river mouth is good but dont know exactly where to try. also heard around the east side of mud/green/st helena s good, but dont know what depth to fish, which type of SP and jig head wts, etc..... anyh help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers guys

[Scott15]

my mate uses the 4" Power bait in watermelon and he seems to go pretty good. he fishes around peel most of the time.

scott