Flathead In The Bay 12th Nov

[kingfishercam]

Went out with a mate thismorning in hope of the odd kingy but had no luck , trolled some hard bodies around yarra bay for nothing but a dirty old seargant baker.After a pretty un eventful morning we headed to a drift on towra which has shown up with the goods in the past and it didnt prove us wrong this time either. First cast of 3 inch pumpkinseed minnow boats a fat 65cm lizard , second cast and my mate is onto a screamer, peeled some drag and a few head shakes and busts us off at the boat , a few cast later and we still are getting plenty of touches.Freshen up the s-p and bang , all within 20 mtrs im onto a estimated 5 kilo lizard who gave me curry for the next 10 mins on 4lb line.Finaly got her in , mearured her up at just short of 80 cm. Must of been a hungry fish as it spat out a whole squid (big bastard squid ). A few quick pics and it was all worth the fight to watch swim away for another feed.

Edited November 12, 2008 by kingfishercam

[achjimmy]

Went out with a mate thismorning in hope of the odd kingy but had no luck , trolled some hard bodies around yarra bay for nothing but a dirty old seargant baker.After a pretty un eventful morning we headed to a drift on towra which has shown up with the goods in the past and it didnt prove us wrong this time either. First cast of 3 inch pumpkinseed minnow boats a fat 65cm lizard , second cast and my mate is onto a screamer, peeled some drag and a few head shakes and busts us off at the boat , a few cast later and we still are getting plenty of touches.Freshen up the s-p and bang , all within 20 mtrs im onto a estimated kilo lizard who gave me curry for the next 10 mins on 4lb line.Finaly got her in , mearured her up at just short of 80 cm. Must of been a hungry fish as it spat out a whole squid (big bastard squid ). A few quick pics and it was all worth the fight to watch swim away for another feed.

What a top result, good on you.

[Dreamtime]

Very nice looking sized lizard.

Looks as though the conditions were favourable for wetting a line.

Well done.

Cheers

Mariner

[CR@ZY OS@M@]

the conditions this morning was awsome,if i ad a rod i would of flicked a few plastics also,well done on the flatties,top stuff for releasing the flattie.

[fishingmik]

well done mate thats one nice fladdie

mik

[Davemmm]

Considering there has been a fair few complaints posted about the poor fishing in the Bay lately the crocs coming out of the region are impressive.

Maybe reports of Botany Bay's demise have been premature (to paraphrase someone or other)

DAVE

[Moro Mou]

That is a great lizard well done.

How did your fishing rod hold up after you sat on it?

[suttonscurse]

Congratulations - very nice fish . Good on you for releasing it to keep on making more babies

Looks like Flathead will be the target this weekend (I will just have to wait till the bream turn up).

regards Bill

[bender]

Top fish there cam. Your starting to get good at the s-p's now. Good on ya buddy. Top fish. Ya PB on plastics. (fish of the month). Hopefully next time i can make it.

Cheers Benny.

[Tiger Cam]

Congrats on a thumper croc Certainly makes up for the lack of kingy action.

Cheers,

Cam

[jenno64]

Great fish there Cam were you drifting with the run in?

[erroll]

Well done there KFC, nice to see those big girls swim off again.

[kingfishercam]

gday , i was drifting on the outgoing tide.