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Great report and congrats on the first jewies!

one pitch jerk - basically jerk the rod once and at the same time crank once. Let the jig does tension fall till it hit the bottom (usually less thanba second with 7ft rod&small reel retrieve rate). Repeat this basically. Be aware of the bottom to adjust when you do jerk during the fall. Can also mix it with a couple more jerks/fast retrieve/slow retrieve.

I was mostly using metal addict type 6 10g (and 7g knockoff) when this report posted. But I find they all work the same at the right time. Where I fish often is pretty shallow flats (Morrison bay, max depth at ~1.5m land based reach I think) so 10g is the heaviest I would use. This is also the max lure weight my ultralight gear could cast. Hope this helps.

I agree on the slim time window. I don't fish in the early morning or in the dark but most of my catches during the winter is within 2 hours before sunset or when tide change (more on rising from low tide). I also noticed it's not too bad around 9-11am when the sun is up but the water also gets warmed up a bit, fish tends to hang around in the shallow for a bit more hunting I guess. Hope this helps.

it's this jig but I think it's pure luck for me to get this one on jig - I didn't expect luderick were around in that bay honestly... but this kind of small blade jigs work very well in the winter anyway. I've caught flathead/trev/luderick on this specific one yeah I do remember and the next would be garfish! And yeah they fight so hard I was literally dreaming about sth in the 60cm mark

pe0.4 sounds like a brave move! But honestly my pe0.6 never gave up on anything I caught in the Parra so I'm sure pe0.4 will do just fine. The only broken braid happened on me is sth managed to cut my braid on structures, nothing wrong about the braid tho

Hi raiders, Went out today with my mate continuing our flathead search in upper Parra. The tide is deadly low so it's been a quiet first hour. We then moved to Morrison Bay since we know well where the deeper section is. Another hour in my mate got a small flathead on double clutch - not a donut session luckily. He then left while I kept casting for a bit more. The tide is reasonably high now and I finally caught a small bream on micro jig, not a surprise for me now... As the sun set, I switched to a jig with a blade at the tail hoping to reflect more lights to attract fish. After maybe 20 casts, yet another jig-jig lead to a big weight, and that thing took off instantly. My mind is set for a Jew because it felt the same powerful run from my last 45cm soapie. However, it took a second, a third, and a fourth powerful run... My stradic was singing like never before. It's a bloody good fish or it's the big flatty I'm looking for? I have to ask a fellow fisho to help me net it since I'm on 6lb only (thanks a lot mate! if you happened to be on this site). After quite some muscling, a huge luderick was landed. A quick measure give it 41.5cm. My first and my PB, I guess this will stay for a while since I don't particularly target them. Bloody hard fighting fish, it's also prob the chunkies 40ish fish I ever seen. Photo taken and it returned to the water safe and sound. What a nice surprise on micro jigs yet again. Now with mullet and luderick on my book, gar is the next... Tight lines, Henry

Still some catches and fishing fun mate! Sorry about the line issues but sometimes it happens. I have a mate having a similar issues before - the first 10m of braid got extra fragile for no reason. Maybe from the saltwater/sun/heat I guess. Not sure a wash after sessions would help but I always give it a bit flush when I can.

Hi all, Hit one of the bays in Gladesville this arvo with my friend. The goal initially was flathead as there's a competition among some anglers. Recently sold my ultralight rod so using hardrocker bb s83ml this time paired with my stradic. A bit tip heavy on a 185g reel but it casts to the moon, no complaints. I was using some micro jigs since they are proven to be extraordinarily effective on Parra flathead while my friend is using SP. There are some bait fish around and we got some hits right away. I scored a tiny whiting first. Then a good whiting at 37cm (my pb I think ). After that my friend got two flathead in a row, ~40cm. We decided to move a bit. Not many casts in I got a heavy weight on my end and it feels very lively. If it's a flathead it could be 50+ for sure. A bit muscling after came a almost 40cm bream! Not the fish we wanted but nobody's gonna say no to a huge bream. And they certainly are not afraid of micro jigs. We then caught several small flathead and whiting and called it a day. Super productive for a shady winter arvo imo and it's great to hang out with a mate after away from the water for two weeks. Tight lines, Henry

I just walk around but I find it productive around the creek mouth. The fish generally turns on when tides changed based on my experience

@Aussie_fisher good work man. I lost a good flattie there on 5lb leader which is the starting point I bring a tele net with me most of the time now. It actually saved me many times when fishing light especially with flathead. I found the creek mouth area at Rushcutters bay is much more productive in general. Never had much luck in other parts other than the odd tailor. However, I saw some squid around the public wharf once (plenty of kelp on that side along the wall) but never managed to get one. Worth a try if hit there next time

I find this would be fixed you 1. tight the drag reasonably tight, like not fully tight but close to the max. 2. keep pressure while spooling by a. spool when attach the reel to a rod and pass line via at least one guide and b. use a mob covering your hand to gently press the line close to the rod. By these it should give it a good and constant pressure

it's metal body&spool but plastic rotor&side plate from what I can tell. It's a serious saltwater reel inherited a lot from saragossa so I think for the normal Sydney-wise shore jigging it's very capable. I heard its drag system isn't good enough for what you would expect when size >=8000 and targeting meter-ish stuff. But for ordinary shore jigging I think it's actually overkill for bonitos and rats. I wouldn't use drag > 5kg anyway for a 6000 size reel when paring with mh/h shore jigging rod

Still a good session and congrats on catching that flathead to break the curse. I was planning for a session last weekend but some uni friends came to visit so I have to skip.

That's a cracker tailor especially on light gear and I wouldn't be surprised to see your kingies report soon! Amazing work! I might need to book in another topwater tutoring session so land a similar one on my own!