With the avo off work i thought to myself what better way to spend it than walking the flats of the Swan River .

Upon arrival i was greeted with a light Easterly and 32ish degrees so i was super eager to get in the water. The water was almost glass on the flats so it looked super inviting.

Todays plan was to fish sub surface style stickbaits. So i tied on a Berkley 3B subdog and off i went .

As the afternoon was intended to work out which style of retrieve worked out best i was not yo confident that the afternoon was going to be a overly productive one but how wrong was I !

First cast hits the water , a couple of short twitches of the rod and i got a all mighty whak but unfortunatly missed the hookup , what a great sign i was thinking , and i was right as almost every 3rd cast was resulting in hookups or good hits. Over the afternoon I ended up landing my fair share of bream and loosing a few more to big bust off's.

The method i found best with the 3B subdogs on the day was to cast out and let the lure hit the bottom , then retrieve with 7 or so very small consistent twitches followed by a small pause then repeat , this proved to be deadly on the flats and in some snags with most fish comming straight after the pause when I began twitching again.

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