jenno64 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Headed out before 7am on Sunday morning to the lower Georges around CC bridge. Had my new GoPro camera mounted next to my sounder, hoping for some decent footage of my outing. Had a poke around the bridge pylons and then through a usual haunt of a channel but no customers. Decided to head over to the entrance of Woolooware Bay and noticed a fair bump on my heaviest oufit whilst trolling in under 2m of water near some old leases. I reached over to turn on the GoPro and settled into the fight with what felt like a cracking fish. After 2 minutes of me chasing this fish around and a few short bursts of drag ripping runs, the camera switched off.....battery dead I had to get my other lines in as the fish had doubled back under the yak and soon enough she came up from the murky water...big fish! I slipped the front half of her into my large silicon net and she gave me a soaking with some amazing tail beats. I managed to lift her into the yak and got a still photo from the GoPro before it carked it for good. I also slipped out my phone and filmed the release. Without a lie detector, I didn't get an exact measurement but she looked and weighed herself into the 80s. It's my 3rd fish of that size since November and I'm hoping to have some decent footage of the whole fight and release next time. BTW apart from a puffer and a small reddy, she was the only fish of the day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aussie007 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 (edited) nice catch mate and thats the usual case one fish and its a big'en catching quality fish like that shows people are releasing these amazing but ugly fish ive recently changed to targeting flatties and my catch has greatly improved over the elusive kingy Edited December 25, 2012 by gazza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hawkesbass Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Cracker flattie shame about the gopro dying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bharris Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Nice flattie been a few big girls around good work Sent from my GT-I9100T using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Nice fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhype Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Rob Great looking flatty once again.. looks like you have worked out how to bribe these big girls into your yak! You using plastics or hardbodies? I was also fishing near the old oyster leases a few days back and landed a fair few flatties on plastics... nothing of great size though! See you around Trung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted December 26, 2012 Author Share Posted December 26, 2012 (edited) Rob Great looking flatty once again.. looks like you have worked out how to bribe these big girls into your yak! You using plastics or hardbodies? I was also fishing near the old oyster leases a few days back and landed a fair few flatties on plastics... nothing of great size though! See you around Trung Trung, Hard bodies came through again.....I find that I cover Moore water trolling and just keep my eye on the sounder to locate likely spots. Bring on the light winds!! Edited December 26, 2012 by jenno64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mialla Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 congrats - what a beautiful fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimatefish Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Nice work mate i hope i got the same good fortune as yourself, i am about to go on my annual trip to grenwell point for the next 10 days..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day's Fishin Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 There's nothing like seeing one of those big girls swimming back down to replenish the flattie population. I think the reason there are more good size flathead caught is because fisho's like you, know how important it is to release our breeding stock! Regards Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusky_Chaser Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Another cracker Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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