Canning River Saturday
G'Day everyone, long time reader first time poster here!
Given the wind on Saturday I decided to leave the tub in the drive way and go for a wade in the Canning in the hope of snagging a flatthead or two. With the easterly behind me the conditions were perfect, unfortunately fishing didn't leave up to expectation, thanks to weed and blowies. Cast after cast my lures came back either covered in that snot weed, or chased down by dozens of blowies. Grand total for the day was a heap of blowies, I lost count! The flatties are definitely there, I spooked three good sized ones while walking around, but the weed made it almost impossible to work a lure past them. I think soft plastics would have been the ideal method to get through the weed, except they wouldn't get through the blowies of course!
If anyone has any ideas on how to get past the weed and blowies I'm open to suggestion.
Watching a horde of blowies attacking my lure made me wonder whether a flattie would actually come out of hiding to hit it even if I did manage to work it past it's nose!
Did see a few good size mullet around, also quite a few crabs. Should be a good crabbing season this summer.
Can't wait for the winds to back off!
Cheers
WM
flangies
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Date Joined: 11/05/08
One way would be some
One way would be some sinking stickbaits, vibes will help, especially with single hooks as there are less points to pick up the weed on.
not much but hope it helps. Sometimes you just can't avoid the weed :(
aussie_breamer
Posts: 359
Date Joined: 24/08/10
prawn stars.
hey mate, try using prawn star shrimps in either pink, natural or honey pot. they pick up very little weed and are my #1 fav lure for flatties, they cant resist.
or sinking stickbaits (as flangies said) like the lipless sugar minnow or the raphael.
cheers, tom
bream slayer
brg
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Date Joined: 31/12/09
hey mate were abouts in the
hey mate were abouts in the canning are the flats you wade are they past the freeway bridge? im north of the river but hanging to chase some flatties.
scottland
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Date Joined: 10/05/10
dont stay to close to the bridge?
thats where i found the blowies hang
i support two teams eagles and whoever is playing the dockers
wrasse magnet
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Date Joined: 16/10/10
brg, I was wading the
brg, I was wading the stretch between the footbridge opposite Aquinas College and Mt Henry Bridge. I did try the flats around Como Jetty a couple of weeks back. Again lots of blowies and probably not enough weed as I didn't come across any flatties. Looking at Google Maps the flats opposite South Perth Golf Club look better.
Thanks for lure suggestions, will give them a go.
scottlil
Posts: 63
Date Joined: 02/04/10
canning bridge
me and some other blokes hav been having some luck on flattys on the flats around the canning bridge using soft plastics and sinkin stick baits aswell as vibe
there was also a guy down there using a fly rod and he caught an absolute monster aswell as heaps of small ones