Summer in the swan/canning
Submitted by Hazell on Sat, 2009-10-31 15:20
With summer coming along and boosting river fishing, whats every one getting stuck into?
Ive been getting into the flatties lately around the canning and herring still seem to be around the lower reaches. I have not had a ton of luck with bream lately and have not seen the summer choppers yet.
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Ash Hazell
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Goodz
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Thats a nice flatty, well
Thats a nice flatty, well done!
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got into a few undersize
got into a few undersize tailor at applecross jetty a couple of weeks ago. there were tons of baitfish around so flatties shud be down soon too :).
might give canning area a try soon with some soft plastics and laser pros.
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Hazell
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Definetly give it a shot but
Definetly give it a shot but I wouldnt bother with plastics right now, most casts I had blowies hitting my hard bodies, i gave up on plastics quick after replacing every cast.
Ash Hazell
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Leemo
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flicking the flats
flicking the flats with baby vibs, sx40's and various bream/flatty lures when im not fishing for mulloway. btw, is the reel in that pic a pflueger trion?
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callum
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you mean rod?
i think it is liam.
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looks like pflueger trion
looks like pflueger trion callum. ive got 2 of them lol. not bad reels for the price. and ive only heard good things about the rod. you have a trion rod dont you?
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callum
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yup
i got it off reuben,
nice and soft but plenty of grunt in the ass
happy fishing
Hazell
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Its a trion rod AND a trion
Its a trion rod AND a trion reel. They are a good little reel for the price, as long as you look after them. I have no problems with fireline or sunline PE on it.
Yeh they are good little rods too, very comforatble to cast all day, light weight. They are quite soft but thats good for some things. Althoguh I havent yet had to muscle a big bluenose out of structure with it (fingers crossed).
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Lovely little rods for the
Lovely little rods for the price, from my experience with the reels they arent great IMO
but yeah love the rods
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you really have to look
you really have to look after the reels because they are very susceptible to corrosion and choking up inside. the first one i bought choked up because i didnt clean it enough, also happened to the second one but managed to fix them, so they both work again.
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Hazell
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That is very true, both of
That is very true, both of my spools have some slight scaling and corrosion after 6 months. They are made for mostly freshwater i think. Ill check out the internals to make sure its not in there too.
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nice flattie !!
nice flattie !!
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Thats a great flattie. I
Thats a great flattie. I found a school of choppers around the canning bridge area. Managed to get 7, good fun on the bream gear.
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Cheers guys, good to hear
Cheers guys, good to hear about the choppers. Yeh they are always a fun catch on ultra light gear.
Hopefully a few bigger ones will be in the mix aswell, Last year I caught and released a few up to 30-35cm in late summer from the lower reaches.
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nothin better than flicking
nothin better than flicking lures around under bridges, around snags and waist deep in water on a hot summers day
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Great Lizard mate
Can't wait for the weather to finally start warming up so I can try some of my Swan bream spots.
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nice flatty for the canning,
nice flatty for the canning, years of fishing the canning never got many big flatties , good to see them still out there
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what lures would you guys
what lures would you guys suggest i use to catch flatties
i have heard that halco scorpian 52's are a good option for flatties, can anyone confirm this?
Any help would be much appreciated
thanks
Dave
P.S is that lure in the pic a halco/rmg scorpian 52?
Hazell
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Yeh mate, thats a scorpion
Yeh mate, thats a scorpion 52 in the pic. I like these becasue they are bigger that your average bream/flatty lures so the blowies will not molest them as much.
Pretty much every smallish lure would catch flatties, just try a few different ones until you start catching.
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Davy_G
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thanks for that hazell my
thanks for that hazell
my friend has been getting into some good sized sand whiting under canning bridge
caught a 30cm fat one yesterday
Hazell
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whiting
Sweet.. i have never caught whiting in the river... if you know, what time of day, tide, etc worked for your friend?
Cheers
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Hello
Hey hazell i will send you an email about all you need to know about canning bridge whiting fishing and also give you the exact location around the bridge so you can tap into some soon!
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do you have any pics of
do you have any pics of these whiting, just curious as i got the odd kg there when i was younger
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Yes
Ive got one but there sand whiting pretty goodsize though
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ask david grubisin, he on
ask david grubisin, he on the site, just pm him and he will get back to you very soon
his username is david grubisin so it is easy to identify him, lol
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Easy to find
hey if you anyone wants to find me it's easy because like davy said my username is David Grubisin and if you look at contents I think you might find my name
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good work grubisin
good work grubisin