If you dont mind me asking Diver, where ya been picking up your flatties? I managed a feed a fortnight ago drifting the channel and another two bigger ones the weeken d after, one off coal point in less then a mtr of water and the other - 80cm jobby off valentine on some structure the sounder picked up, any info would be tops mate, your not wrong there is a few around, these next few weeks will only get better, i can feel it in the air lol
As for that Mtr plus fish your young bloke dropped, go with the Jew idea mate, i too dropped a largish jeweyish looking specimen on the same day - 6 poound braid with 8pd leader, felt like nothing until i seen it then byebye