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Great stuff Woodsy, you battled the not so great conditions and came home with a feed!

Hit the Georges yesterday morning for the last hour of the run up but waiting for the run out in a couple of favourite spots. Jagged a small silver biddy and headed over to a deep water spot just as the tide turned. Had a massive hit on the livey and grabbed the rod but all went limp, then another hit and gone. I pulled it up and it was worse for wear....looked like a jew had crushed it. Headed over to the shallows and lost a couple of good flatties on blades then bagged a couple on soft vibes to take home for a feed. Just before pulling up stumps I was drifting down into slightly deeper water and had a weighty hit on a blade. This thing had some grunt and I quickly pulled in the other lines as the tide was ripping out sending the kayak into a spin. With just the rod in hand I started getting line back on the fish which was working the current to its advantage. I managed to get it up to the surface and saw its tail....pretty healthy. After a few spins of the kayak I manage to net the big girl and she catapulted out of the net but luckily I caught her before she hit the drink...quite a bit of weight. Finally in the yak I surgically removed the blade minus two hooks as it was well down the gob. I covered the fish's head with a towel and shot around to a sandy beach to get a few pics before release. Left my brag mat at home but guestimated the fish at 75-80cm and very fat. She released well and I followed her to a metre then gave her a nudge and she disappeared. Ended up with a nice flatty in the high fifties only a hundred metres from the ramp and just polished off a two course flatty meal of carpaccio followed by fillets with rice and asian greens. Last edited by flattyakker on Sat Nov 04, 2017 3:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Sounds promising, great session and well done on the kings!

Cracking session and well done on the release!

Interesting session and it would have been amazing to see the ray breach!

Dinner sorted!

Cracking fish on a popper, well done!

Shall do!

Hit the Georges this morning in great conditions and a run in tide with lots of stars on the fishing chart. Had a a couple of blades and a soft vibe out and the rod in my hand was smashed by what I thought was the head shakes of a big flatty. Set the hooks and this thing took off and overtook the yak with some screaming runs of 50m or so. I retrieved the other lines and set off after it, wary of the 6lb braid breaking and wondering if the small blade would hold on. The fish headed into fairly shallow but snag free water and an extra head shake saw the lure come back all bashed up. I had only yesterday loaded it with W hooks and one pulled clean off the split ring and the other was straightened. Pretty sure this was a good jew lost:( Things went quiet for a while and I caught a silver biddy so on it went as a livey. Did a 1 km lap of the area and returned to where I lost the fish. Started to get into a patch of flatties and landed a mid fifties on the livey. Hung around until the tide started running out and got a nice flatty just shy of 70cm on a soft vibe. I had enough fish and was intending on releasing this one but it played up in the yak and did a few death rolls with the lip grippers splitting its lower jaw in half. It had also engulfed the vibe and was worse for wear after the lure removal so it came home too. Overall a promising session with another half dozen small flatties and a 40cm tailor released. Looking forward to some nice fillets over the next week or so

Great to see the young fella involved and two nice meals there:)

Awesome fish and congrats on the PB! You caught it on the evening peak time:)

A couple of trophies won and well done on the PBs!

Now that is a corker.....Wouldn't you like to tag one and see how far up and down the systems they roam. That baby may have been caught and kept out near the runway a week later! Top stuff all round. I've been up the Cooks a couple of times and found some pretty deep holes near the bridges all the way up to Marrickville:)

What a session....congrats...what gear are you using there?

Magic fish Stewy, is that your PB from the Cooks?

Cracking Trifecta....which system if you don't mind me asking:)

Great post and two fantastic fish...well done on a memorable winter catch and release!!

That is a cracking session and well done on the 50+ unit, I've only caught one that big and dined out on the story for a while:) I was thinking about a pig session today after I abandoned the idea for an arvo squid session on the yak.....ended up being a very poor decision as I took my son to watch Manly flog the Sharks......no winners or keepers for me:(

Great stuff and some good size amongst them.....were they out over the kelp or in inland bays?

You should try downsizing to 6lb and watch your hook up rate triple;)

Awesome catch!

Cracking PB and great read!

Great session Penguin and congrats on the big flatty release...how big did she go? Great to see the young fella enjoying the day too!!

Happy Easter Paul! Great sesh and some nice inkers for a feed. The kings must have been some fun too!

Well done on an Easter feed and Happy Easter to all!