PB Flattie & little Sea Monsters

Hi Guys

Just thought I’d share this experience with you all!...With the missus and I both having yesterday off I talked her into getting out in the boat for a relaxing squid session and hopefully get a feed of whiting.

We headed off from CPBA at Woodies around 7.30am and headed over to our favourite squid spot and started our first drift. We bagged out on some of the biggest squid I have ever seen! And, I couldn’t believe how aggressive they were being! On three occasions big squid actually broke the surface attacking our jigs when we were retrieving them. The first time it happened Yvonne was winding in her jig and something attacked it on the surface. I said “shit, see that fish have ago at your jig”! She said, “it wasn’t a fish, it was a squid,” “a bloody big squid.” I cast my jig over near where it happened and within 15 seconds a very big squid had grabbed my jig.  This thing was actually dragging line off the reel. They were bloody sea monsters.  They were coming up as big as wine bottles, the biggest measured 34cm from base to tip of it’s hood with others measuring 32 to 33cm. It was a truly amazing squid session that we’ll both remember for a long time, catching these aggressive little sea monsters J

After bagging out on huge squid we headed over to our whiting patch in the hope of getting a nice feed. We dropped the anchor and got a bit of berley going. First cast something other than a whiting hit my bait.  Whatever it was, was giving the bream gear a bit off stick. At first I thought maybe I had a smallish gummy shark on the line but as it got closer to the boat and we got colour I realised it was a fantastic Flathead. Once netted and safely in the boat I put it on the fish ruler and it measured 62.5cm and the biggest flattie I’ve ever caught J Although the Whiting weren’t playing the game we still went home with big smiles on faces and a very nice feed J

Cheers

Paul

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DanB81's picture

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Awesome

Fri, 2014-04-25 16:32

Very nice feed there

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Crackin Kraken!

Fri, 2014-04-25 16:34

Crackin Kraken!

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 Great catch there mate!

Fri, 2014-04-25 17:04

 Great catch there mate! Where you in deep water for those big bad calamari???

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G'day Goodz, Not to deep mate

Fri, 2014-04-25 17:12

G'day Goodz,

 

Not to deep mate 6 metres just out from Carnac Island on the eastern side, got some decent size squid there before but none to this size!

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Prize feed

Fri, 2014-04-25 17:57

Nice haul of squid and cracker frog.

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gotta be happy with that

Sat, 2014-04-26 01:25

gotta be happy with that

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 Nom nom nom! Delicious feed

Sun, 2014-04-27 10:02

 Nom nom nom! Delicious feed there! 

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Congrats

Sun, 2014-04-27 10:10

Thanks for sharing. That's a quality feed right there. Love aggressive squid, kind of like battling 'pod-racers' racing to the jig. Nice work.

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Cheers guys,

Sun, 2014-04-27 12:51

 Cheers guys, and yes soupster you gotta love em when their aggressive! It was a pretty amazing session for them to actually attack the jigs on the surface and when they took the jig down deep it felt like you were snagged up in the weed until you felt the distinctive pulls and the big ones pulling line off the reels was pretty special :-)

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Nice flattie and a good

Sun, 2014-04-27 13:48

 feed of calamari also.. Gotta be happy with that..

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 Wow ! fwarken nice size

Sun, 2014-04-27 19:49

 Wow ! fwarken nice size there well done! Sum projectiles from them im sure....

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