Welster

Sorry to hear of your loss. 😢

Another nice feed Yowie. Most of the whiting you catch seem to be when you are wading, is that your preference to target them?

I am all over the shop with this. Feet or meters for depth, speed knots, miles or km is fine. Temperature always Celsius. As a builder, timber, building products or room sizes metric or imperial is fine, but for calculations metric. For my car I generally use mpg for fuel consumption. I was born in the 70s so we were taught the metric system, that was until I got into the garage with my dad or a building site with my Uncle when I started work.

Great report Isaac your persistence paid off well.

And we have only been locked down for a few days!

Thanks opportunities to get out have been very rare this year.

Thanks Yowie you are correct. I don't know why but i thought the read underneath the mouth was the marble flathead. I will edit my post.

Absolutely although fishing with Dad is pretty good too.

I managed to snag a couple of days of work with my daughter on school holidays. She chose to go fishing and target flathead, so who was I to argue? We kicked off from Swallow rock around 8 headed down south in nice conditions to our flathead grounds. The conditions were pretty good with the day warming nicely, plenty of whales still about a decent drift and the fish joining in, it really doesn't get much better. After a few nice hours on the water we had our feed and headed home. I was surprised how warm the water was at around 19 degrees outside the hacking with a much more chilly 14 up river. The flatties ranged from 37-48 cm. One of the bigger ones had a fat belly with a recently consumed red spot whiting. Mostly blue spots with the one Tiger flathead.

What a cracking whiting nice tasty fillets there. You have a knack of fining the good size reddies as well.

Two days two very different results. I have fished with Mark we had a tough day but still very worthwhile.

A couple of nice fish there. It has been ages since I caught a Tarwhine.

My advice is be careful. There is nothing more frustrating than having a squid smash a live squid only for the rod holder to spin on the rail and your king outfit disappearing into the depths.

How good is it trying a new spot that produces first drift? Hopefully the others come up tight next time or you might need to find a new sponsor 🤣.

Well there you go. It doesnt sound like a good idea to me.

@zmk1962 I must of missed that post!

Awesome effort and report. Looks like you need to upsize the esky 🤣.

Thats a sensation fish off the beach. Awesome effort.

Cracking red mate well done. Its amazing how often those casts or drops cast produce. What depth were you in?

Yeah a bit off track sorry Frank but I think we all appreciate the skills some people accumulate over a lifetime. As for my Uncle dad would know more of what he did for the council than me. I do know he won some awards for vandal proof locks and Stevens Reserve on Stacey St was named in recognition of his service. I will inherit his car stands one day hopefully in the very distant future.

Have you seen @Fab1 post when he made a knife from a file for his son? I enjoyed that one. Trades like blacksmith will probably never completely disappear but its a shame people with the skills are far fewer. My “uncle” was a blacksmith for Canterbury council I’d bet there isn’t a council in Australia with a blacksmith now.

Lots of great skills on display there Frank full credit to you.

Its hard to beat a feed of flatties. Well done.

My guess is your daughter is the star fisherperson of the family.

I registered but most likely wont get out.