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.

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gotta be happy with that

Sun, 2012-02-26 18:43

still swimming? would have been a good day for it 

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impressive! fantastic river

Sun, 2012-02-26 18:59

impressive! fantastic river flatty

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Nice Bartail

Sun, 2012-02-26 19:10

Nice bartail from the river, goto be happy to land a monster like that.

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Nice flatty Mate.Love a few

Sun, 2012-02-26 19:55

Nice flatty Mate.Love a few fresh fillets.

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 Nice one

Sun, 2012-02-26 20:03

 Nice one

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nice mate

Sun, 2012-02-26 20:11

nice mate

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Good Flatty Ben

Sun, 2012-02-26 20:26

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?

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Now theres a feed thats hard

Sun, 2012-02-26 20:36

Now theres a feed thats hard to beat. Well done man

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Hope it was a Lemax

Sun, 2012-02-26 21:16

Grrrrrrr.... Nice catch mate. Nothing like a good lizard.

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nice one mate,well done with

Sun, 2012-02-26 21:37

nice one mate,

well done with the pb!

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Thanks fellas.Wasn't much

Sun, 2012-02-26 22:12

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.

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 nice flatty from the river,

Sun, 2012-02-26 22:13

 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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PB

Mon, 2012-02-27 05:26

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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solid flatty mate

Mon, 2012-02-27 08:21

solid flatty mate

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Nice flattie and great feed!A

Mon, 2012-02-27 09:36

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.