a good spot for flatties is point walter u can often see them in the shallows and sight cast and get them 40+ cms as well and at night there tailor bream and whiting

lure and bait for all

for the shy bream smaller hook in a muscle and just let it float down get big bream that way as well

 cheers i might go there with some zman grubz and my ecogear sx40 this holidays

 and yeah there is an enormous amount of mussles there so i might give it a try

I've been out on many a trip chasing flatties from the dinghy around Rocky Bay on the sandbank inside the channel and near the shore and just seem to come up shy most times. Had a great day at Pt Walter and an unexpected couple of lizards at Ascot once using Ecogear ZX and the other time using the trusty Ecogear SX40

 Hey mate, I've found that the colder weather seems to shut them down a bit, no where near as active as in summer, still some good fish around but as u noticed, They tend to be less active,

one way to find the ones that will be feeding is find a drop off and work this area at around half an hour at change of tide, I have found that I will have shutdown periods while fishing in the river, and only after checking the tides ( which can vary depending of what part of the river ur in) have found that it's due to the slack water.

Low tide is a handy time to check sand spits and shallow areas for flathead lies/lays , come back to this area on a running tide and you may find yourself into a hot little session,

im a plastic man for flathead where as my main flathead fishing parter is a hard bodies man, both will work as proven since we are quite stubborn in regards to changing over to the dark side haha! 

Hope this helps, best advice is stick to a plan, dodge the green string weed, learn what a blowies nibble feels like or loose plastics,  have fun! And if you do hook up to a lizard do your best to keep its head under water, have lost a few bigger girls to the inevitable head shake out of water.

hope that's helps mate, the big one go hard on light gear

 Before the rain i found a heap of 45+cm flatties around the salter point area. In one session i got 5 above 45cm 2 of which were 50cm. I was using a zman slim swim placcie, and i was bouncing it off the bottom with a slow wind in between. Now that we've had some rain id suggest they would have slowed a bit and are probs holding on the deeper drop offs further down river, but anywhere that is holding small bait fish such as hardy heads will have flatties close by, and now that the weather is colder placcies are a better bet because you can work them alot slower. As for those pesky bream, if you can see them they can see you and any thing out of the norm for them will shut them down, try firing a long cast out away from the jetty before you walk out onto it or in front of you as you walk but jojos is a very stressful place with artificials. Id also suggest tying on a tiny hook and getting a live hardy head, then get a decent hook through its lips and fire it under the resturant, then hold on.

 If you want the big swan river flatties target the area's were there is a water run off ( pond,swamp). Bait fish swim in when the tides up and leave when the tides falling and the big girls will be waiting near the entrance for a easy feed there lazy and like routine. Good luck 

thanks guys 

havent had a go at the flathead yet but i did go fishing afterschool at jojos behind the restuarant,

i had a small sinker and a hook that i rigged small mussels onto but the bream didnt like it so i took off the sinker and they liked that much more and i managed to land a small 27cm one and hook a massive one that snapped my hook off. i hooked another but he got off. i was leaning over the side of the floating boardwalk and just ripping mussels off the bottom and watching them sink and the hoards of bream smashing them. there are some 40cm plus ones there which i will try to get this avo. Mussels with small hooks is definetly the way to go and it was great fun watching my rod bend slighty then almost get yanked into the river by the bream. They fight hard for there size and the big one i hooked was pulling my rod under the water.

thanks 

TomN