Finally cracked my PB flatty
I've been spending time sussing out a few new spots down Bicton way and ended up having a pretty good session yesterday arvo. Caught stack of grunter on a Berkley Scum Dog which, while they were only grunter, were still a hell of a lot of fun - great surface strikes and they generally put up a pretty good account of themselves. Some of the larger fish were getting close to 30cm.
Anyway after a while I dropped a diver to fish some of the deeper water and after a few casts had a solid flatty hookup which I knew was going to beat my 46cm PB, you could just feel the weight at the other end of the line. After a few great runs and plenty of panic that I was going to lose it I finally dragged it over to the sand and measured him up at 52cm, and he was fat as too. Sweet!
I went back to the sandbars after that and scored a couple of small bream around 25-28cm to finish it all off.
scottland
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gotta be happy with that
still swimming? would have been a good day for it
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ealzee
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impressive! fantastic river
impressive! fantastic river flatty
kill it??? eat it!!!!
grantarctic1
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Nice Bartail
Nice bartail from the river, goto be happy to land a monster like that.
chrisp
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Nice flatty Mate.Love a few
Nice flatty Mate.Love a few fresh fillets.
oceanspirit
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Nice one
Nice one
I come, I see, I fish!!
fisho-ron
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nice mate
nice mate
Xtreme Coolers
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Good Flatty Ben
Got a few myself yesturday, however, nowhere near as big as that. What outfit were you using. You have got a few to choose from?
Dave
sambo24
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Now theres a feed thats hard
Now theres a feed thats hard to beat. Well done man
UncutTriggerInWA
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Hope it was a Lemax
Grrrrrrr.... Nice catch mate. Nothing like a good lizard.
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adam87
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nice one mate,well done with
nice one mate,
well done with the pb!
Ben Derecki
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Thanks fellas.Wasn't much
Thanks fellas.
Wasn't much chance a fish that size was going back in the river, fresh flatty is definately a favourite on the plate.
Re the setup - yeah got a couple of rods I use depending on where I'm fishing, the 6ft Storm Legend is the main Lemax one, yesterday I had a FWA bream stick with a little Ajiking Air Maxx on it. The lure that did the damage was a pretty standard orange gold Bushy's lure... I always seem to come back to that colour in the river.
Faulkner Family
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nice flatty from the river,
nice flatty from the river, congrats on the pb. now to get one at 60cm. great way to spend the day
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soupster51
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PB
Congrats on the PB. Any flattie from the river over 50cm is a trophy fish these days. Nearly the best eating fish there is as well.
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dkonig82
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solid flatty mate
solid flatty mate
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n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
championruby
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Nice flattie and great feed!A
Nice flattie and great feed!
A carbon copy of one I bagged on saturday arvo also, around matilda bay. Been a few larger models around this year.