Hastings River

[one fishes]

After moving up to Port Maquarie from Sydney I went and got myself a quintrex 420 dory with a 30hp yammy to use in the river. After sitting there looking at it all yesterdy afternoon i decided to go and get an electric motor for it first thing this morning as well as stopping by the tackle shop to pick up a few soft plastics, got home stuck the electric on grabbed the wife and went down to the ramp which is no more than 10min from home and launched the boat. We threw plastics around for about 2 hrs on an incoming tide for 5 Flathead, 4 at 38cm and 1 at 47cm and a bream of 28cm all caught on the small grubs in peppered prawn colour. sorry no photo's this time as we were really only just feeling our way around and didnt expect too much, cant wait to get to know this area better as some of the water up here looks pretty special and extremely fishy. Will try to post more reports from up here in the north next time with photo's

[josamill]

Great stuff....a new boat, a new river and instant success. You'd be stoked. The peppered prawn pattern was a winner on the weekend for my mate, out fishing my white soft plastic 5 to 1. He literally caught 15 flathead (most undersized at 28-33cm) to my 2. The day before we used the same plastics and I beat him by a whisker, so i don't think it's a technique issue.