Itscaca
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Thanks raiders, it cooked up beautifully! Big enough for a good feed, but small enough for the flesh to be super tender! Just perfect!
I've always been told that girth is most important
Cheers, itscaca
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G'day Fellow Raiders,
Just a quick report on this mornings voyage to the rip bridge (St Huberts side)
My friend Fiona (Fi) was keen for a putt in the boat before she had to go to work, which gave us about 2 hours on the water.
We took the Humdinghy (my boat) to orange grove boat ramp and away we went trying to waste no time. On our travels we saw a police boat getting information from another boat as we putted along with my little 6 horse power, and then ZOOM! off the police boat went straight out under the bridge and towards box head, passed us like we were standing still..Hopefully everyone is okay.?
After another 10 minutes of cruising we hit our spot, dropped anchor, cracked a cheeky beer, baited up and away we went. Fi thought she'd try her luck with a squid jig, sadly nothing was taking it. My first few casts brought in a few tiddlers (bream, snapper, trumpeter) you know the usual annoying fish, and then I hooked into a pretty decent snapper which was great fun on 10lb mono zzzzzzz went the drag haha. After a few minutes I brought him in and he was just on legal, I thought maybe in another year you'll be ready, so I let him swim free.
Fi finally got her rig ready (paternoster Rig) through a bit of tailor on and out it went. At this point I was boasting about the snapper and a few other fish I had caught, then Fi cut me short......ZZ, ZZZZZZ, ZZZZ, She was into something big. The fight was weird, almost like a big flathead with a shoe attached to it. Fi fought the mystery fish for about 10 mins trying to exhaust the fish before bringing it up to the boat. Finally the head came up, it was a huge flatty. As she brought it up to the boat I put the net around it and brought it in. On closer inspection she had hooked the flathead in the bum!!! I almost fell over backwards!!! hahaha!! absolute wrongtown! haha
This was a big big flathead, not in length, but just overall FAT! The flathead only went about 65cm, but it was 11cm wide! This thing had been chowin' down the last few months! Usually we let the bigger ones go however, being the only flathead we have caught in a few weeks, we decided to keep it for dinner.
We got 4 big beautiful steak fillets off it and the flesh is a beautiful white colour! Very keen for tonights dinner!
Anyway, Thanks for reading Raiders I hope you got a little bit of enjoyment out of my report. Tight Lines!
Regards, itscaca.
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Thanks raiders ?
They were beatiful, lightly floured, cooked 10 seconds a side and a squeeze of lemon juice! 11/10 ?
And if you ever have Bonito or tuna for bait, throw on a small long shank hook, find a nice sand flat and a slow retrieve...deadly combo!
Cheers, Itscaca
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Good day fellow Raiders!
It seemed to be the perfect day, I had the day off work, the girl had the day off work, the sun was shining and the boat was ready to go.
We started our day at about 11am, launching off orange grove boat ramp and heading towards the rip bridge. We decided to anchor St Hubert's side of the bridge where the current was slow and the water was somewhat clear (for Brisbane waters anyway). After about an hour of flicking plastic and getting zilch we decided to continue to Paddy's channel.
On the travel we found a nice sand bar just at the start of Paddy's and decided to flick for a few flathead. After a few really good hits on the plastics we got jack of not hooking up and switched to bait (bonito). We casted out at the same time and both got hit in almost perfect sync, we couldn't believe it, after a bit of a fight up came two beautiful whiting, my girl's went about 34cm and mine was 30cm.....I tried stretching him but just couldn't get the extra 4cm's hahaha. We continued for about another hour and brought up another 4 whiting between us, all keepers! So in the Eski they went.
On the last cast I hooked into something with a little more fight than the humble whiting, and had me running around the boat trying not to get tangled, after about 5 mins of fighting I brought up a nice sized tailor going about 36cm's, good fun bringing him up on such light gear. He put up a good fight so I threw him back to fight another day.
After this we picked a friend up from the local wharf and back to paddy's channel we went, where not much fishing got done, but we had a few drinks and a good old chin wag. All in all we were out for 7 hours and we got something to take home with us which was a bonus. No Flathead this time, but thats the fun of fishing.
Sorry about the lack of photo's, I'll make sure I get some next time.
Thanks for reading Raider's, Good Luck!
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16 minutes ago, flatheadluke said:
They’re usually chasing whitebait and when they are you’ll outfish anyone with a 3 inch zman minnow (opening night colour) soft plastic with a 1/4 jig head, loads of pro cure scent and 10lbs leader on a short rod (say 6’6) with lots of twitch.
Just bought exactly what you told me, haha ?
My spinning rod is only about that big anyway, so that will work out well.
I’ll give that a go for sure and let you know how it goes.
Thanks for your input Flathead Luke.
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2 hours ago, masterfisho7 said:
Most of my Bonito I have got be using metals I would just keep using them your luck will change
Fingers crossed masterfisho7, It can be a little frustrating seeing everyone else pulling in Bonnie’s hahah
Thanks for your input, cheers
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1 hour ago, King chaser said:
Agree with bluefin the faster the better! Also are you letting the metal sink, vary your depths of retrieval! Also what line are you using? I generally spin with braid and Fluro carbon leader. Give the metal a spit shine every once in a while get the light bouncing off it really good, size and colour, if one colour is working try switch it up!
Cheers
Yeah, I let the metal sink for 10-15 seconds whilst letting line out....usually the line stops taking. And then I wind in like crazy.
I use 30lb braid with a half metre 30lb fluorocarbon leader.
Haha all my metals are brand new, I kept buying different ones thinking I was using the wrong types...
Thanks for you input king chaser
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2 hours ago, bluefin said:
Speed is tde key to Bonito. He who has the fastest moving lure catches the fish. Howard.
I do, I feel like an idiot sometimes winding it in like a mad man though hahah
Thanks for your input Howard!
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G'day fellow Raiders, long time reader first time poster (I hope i've posted in the right section, please correct me if I haven't)
I've been down Avoca rocks recently (almost every day for 2 weeks) morning and night, spinning metals for Bonito, such as, Halco twisty (15 up to 55 Grams) and a few others which names escape me. I usually throw my bigger rod out with 1.7 metre trace with gang hooks and float with a salted pilchard and leave to sit while I spin off spinners ledge.
I have had zero luck! I was lucky enough to bump into Ray R (Top Bloke!), to whom i've met a few times here and there and he was kind enough give me a few pointers although, still no luck.
Does anyone have any pointers? Am I doing anything wrong? People seem to be landing Bonito left, right and centre around me, it seems I just don't have "the magic touch"
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Raiders, Itscaca.
Brisbane Waters, Fat Flathead
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Posted · Edited by Itscaca
Yeah they were defiantly harassing a few people...thank god they didn’t come after the humdighny.
Yeah I usually fillet my flatheads and cut them into 4 smaller steaks, 2 small tail steaks and 2 thick tummy steaks...big NO NO over cooking such a beatiful fish haha
Cheers raiders, Itscaca