Claremont Flathead Session

Took the young bloke out for a flick this arvo around Claremont. Was pretty windy so we confined ourselves to the jetty so we could cast cross wind rather than wading the flats & casting into the wind.  The flatties were being rather uncooperative & we had to work hard for each fish but we did manage a couple. My first was only just legal at 31cm so I let it go to fight another day but my second was a better fish of 46cm which made it into the freezer. The young bloke drew a blank as did most of the other people having a cast from the jetty. I only saw two other fish landed over the 3 or so hours we were there, one slightly smaller than my big one & one that came up as 51cm.

 

Also went for a flick with Ealzee & Scott99 around Point Walter yesterday arvo but the green weed was diabolical so we gave that up fairly quick & moved around to Bicton Baths. It was pretty crowded with people swimming etc but we moved up from them a little way & had a crack anyway. We didn't land anything but we did have some follows & a few decent hits. At one point I had hooked a blowie & was reeling that in only to see a rather large (guesstimate 50-55cm) flatty follow it all the way in to about 2ft of water. As soon as I saw it I slowed the wind in down but it just parked itself for a few seconds & then took off. I've never seen a flatty take any notice of a blowie before so it was actually quite fascinating to me.


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sounds like u had a good arvo

Sun, 2011-12-18 19:58

sounds like u had a good arvo with the boy ...

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Sure did but I don't think he

Sun, 2011-12-18 20:05

Sure did but I don't think he was happy drawing a blank, he's used to outfishing me most of the time. Hardbodys are not his thing though so he's still developing his technique. I'm sure he'll start kicking my arse on them to before the end of summer.

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technique

Sun, 2011-12-18 20:11

yer i dont think i got the technique sussed yet .....i think it was beginners luck landing 2 the other day

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You were doing something

Sun, 2011-12-18 21:17

You were doing something right though or you wouldn't have caught anything, so that's a good start. It's just practice & paying attention to how your working the lures. Like any other fishing you will notice things that work & things that don't. Once you have it sussed you'll be catching fish on lures quite regularly.

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Might have seen you down

Sun, 2011-12-18 21:35

Might have seen you down there Graeme. I was there from around 4.30 to just before 8 o'clock.

I ended up catching three, with the biggest going right on 40cm. That's been turned into dinner for the missus tomorrow night.

The other two were about 32-33, and as far as I know they're sitting happily on the bed of the river waiting for their next feed.

Can't seem to post pics, but you all know what flathead look like.