smallscott69 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Went down to Minnamurra river with my father a mate and our two month old inflatable zodiac. Dad just got a $170 shimano SP combo and was pretty keen to try it out. I was using some squidgy wrigglers on a light 2-4kg rod and my mate was using white bait. My mate and I have never gone out fishing together but it was definitely a bait vs plastics comp. Okay, so we set off at around 1:30pm and we drove out into the channel where the river bends (about 4 -5m deep), I'm the first to put a squidgy on so I cast out, and within literally 5 seconds I've got a fish on. It put up a pretty good fight, I bring it in and it's a 40cm flathead! perfect for dinner so we go ahead and chuck that on ice. My mate points out a marker it seems to be a drop off so were hoping for some good fish, I cast in and wham another 40cm flatty. For the next 30 mins i'm not getting much and so far my dad hasn't gotten anything, all of a sudden my mate hooks up on a 30cm trevally and then he turns to me and says "Trevally> flatty so Bait>SP"... hahaha. He then follows that up by catching a 25cm tailor which actually jumped out of the water. It went quiet for about half an hour so we decided to drift at the main intersection, and then again I hook up! and to my surprise it was another 40cm flatty! hahah this is great. My dad finally has a fish and its a tiny garfish that he hooked in the side of the body =). So all up it was a pretty good day for me not for my dad =( but he is still keen to go out with SP's from what I caught. Heres some pics: Excuse the \m/ signs we just did that to prove to our friend that it was us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOE^MOE Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 nice catch champ looking forward 2 see a report of you in 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishingmik Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Nice work mate i regulary go out there in my yak and get some nice fladdies to mik.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnv Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 nice feed there mate should come up on the bbq pretty good yum cheers john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) Good work, and a nice lot of flatties. I fished Minnamurra with my son just after Christmas, we caught 9 mullet and 8 bream, all under size most just under (all released), still my son had fun. We used bait (worms) and lures, all the fish we got were caught on bait, never got a strike on the lures. Edited January 3, 2011 by Gator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flattyman Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Bread and butter fishing... Great stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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