jenno64

What a team!

Roberta.......you are moving to the dark side???? Good to see you had some fun with the poddies. The bonus of using them is they are fun to catch and my 5 yo is my chief poddy trapper who sorts the good size ones from the trow backs. What size were they as I have found that targeting bigger flatties with poddies 10-15cm is the go and the only ambushing comes from squid on the troll. The poddies now are usually a bit small but by February/March the bigger ones pull some good crocs and the spider web you are using would result in an Aussie record if you landed a monster! Nice of Pete to show the local ropes too

KING BLING Just imagine the internal stuff from bust offs over the years....he was the TACKLATOR

You look like you hit the spot! Well done on the feed and I believe the flatties from outside tatse better than the duskies from the rivers...can you vouch for that?

Frankie, Tried the VX35 out while I was trolling HBs. Got heaps of hits bust mostly little reds and whiting. It definitely attracted attention. I also got a 97cm flatty on a HB so it was a good day. When I got home, I noticed that one of the hooks had disappeared....any trouble like this at your end? I don't know whether to replace one with a tiny treble?

Got an early start in the Georges and onto the water by 6am. Took a few poddies long but was keen to try some new lures acros the flats at high tide.... not much interest. This spot fishes better after the outgoing tide gets moving a bit. Ventured to some shallower water and picked up a 45cm flatty and numerous little reddies on my VX35. Just after the flatty my line with the Strikpro prawn gets one of those hits that slowly pulls the trolling rod back but with no bouncing(sign of a good fish). I pick up the rod and set the hooks and feel some movement on the end. Steadily gaining line, the fish feels heavy but cooperative until it gets a few metres from the yak. Then a short burst of drag sings and I feel some head shakes up the line. A few more short burst and some changes of direction and I'm thinking it could be a jew. Ten minutes or so until I get it off the bottom...put the rod in the holder and got the other line in. Up she comes...a massive croc that looked over the metre on first glance and no sign of the lure. Way too big for the net! Took a bit more coaxing to the surface and first attempt with the lip grips has her headbutting the side of the yak. Second attempt and I get a hold of the bottom jaw and slide her up onto my lap. Lure was engulfed and she was thrashing around so I pedalled 100m over to a waterfront lawn and put her up on the lawn to try to get the lure out. Took a quick snapon the lie detector and she came in at 97cm (beating the PB by 1cm!) The lure was way down caught on gills but I jiggled it out remarkably easily. Took her down to a concrete slipway and started swimming her back and forth for about 5 minutes or so. She had some blood coming out under the gills but it cleared and she gave a massive headshake. She was ready to go. I unlocked the grips and she swam off a metre or two and sat on the bottom. I tried to get some pics with my underwater camera but the visibility was pretty bad. I watched her for a few minutes before giving her tail a push with my little paddle. She slid off into the depths with that big tail swishing side to side. I was spewing I didn't have a mate out with me this morning as I would have loved to take some good pics with her. Anyway, it was a new PB and not quite the magic metre but bloody close. I was also glad that I upgraded my leader to 14lb as I was sick of losing lures to weed. The lure copped a pounding with 4 of the six barbs bent. After that I had to get down to my son's last Nippers day before Chrissy so I headed over closer to the car. On the last drift I picked up another cracking fish on the only live poddy left. This thing went ballistic and spun out of the silicon landing net on the first 3 attempts. She went 72cm on the lie detector and went back in after a quick snap. Only one for the table but a top morning with two fish over 70cm and back in the car by 10am.

Another great post Hodgey...Happy birthday to Dean and well done on a cracking fish!!

Great report and some top fish. I like the look of those lures but I've just spent up big on some others!

Sounds like the tailor were liking the podies too! Great result and I'm with you...don't like big tides...hard to fish and the fish seem to go everywhere making them harder to find.

You've done it again! Top feed and some cracking white chaps!

is that a shovel??? - 'kinhuge fish!

Frankie, I found them on the net and had one delivered with some new SX60s...looking to try them out tomorrow.

After reading this post the best place to find prawns on the Georges is just either side of Tom Uglies Bridge back near the shallower water at a place called Smiths

What a scorching start to your Kingy season....bring them on!

Hodgey, My parcel arrived with 3 new SX60s, a ps45F and a vx35....I'm ready to try some new weapons:) Thanks for the info on diving depths etc. I have some good spots to work them over once work is out of the way! I will let you know how they fare!

Doug and GF That is a great morning and I bet you have told the story to many mates. Well done on the jewey and some nice take home fillets!

Hodgey the SX60s sound the goods...do they dive abit deeper than the 40s?

Roberta, Hope the back is on the mend so you can put a bit of back into the next monster fish you hook under those floating leases! Great post and great pics as usual!

Hodgey, There is a hell of a lot of wisdom and common sense in that post. Great read and well done...you are going to have a cracker of a summer! P.S. Nephew scored a free superguide for the day!

Headed out this morning and couldn't find any poddies so after a couple of trolls with my usual flatty lures I picked up some pinkies and a 20cm trumpeter whiting which I kept for a bait. The wind blew up about 9am so we headed over to the leeward side of the river and tried a drift with some plastics. On the first drift we were being blown at about 5 knots and the livey line screams. After a few minutes, a good flatty came up strangled by the other line which was snagged on the bottom. I pedalled over to a beach to see if she was still OK but she was rolling upside down and battle scared so I kept her. She went 76cm and ended up feeding six of us tonight. After gutting plenty of good flatties and finding whiting in the gut, my theory paid off.

Great markings on thta fish!

Great read and a nice esky full! That theory of yours about the prawns is worth a thought!

Neat looking lure...can you cast them a mile?

Nice trolled flatfellas!