Long Reef kings and flatties

[GoingFishing]

Gday Raiders

Report from todays trip, the plan was to fish long reef for kings and snapper but only managed to tangle with the kings.

Conditions seemed good as i rounded north head around 7am, passed by 3 schools of sambos on the surface and had to battle the urge to throw a lure in.

Arrived at long reef shortly after and threw out two Rapala deep divers, first pass resulted in a double hook up of rat kings approx 40cm and 50cm, Did a couple of more passes for another single rat king around 50cm. No legal ones for me today but i did see a couple of blokes hooked up to what were surely legal kings including one poor fella on a kayak who was battling it out for almost 15 mins. looks like hard work from a kayak especially with some chop around.

The weather quickly deteriorated and i barely had any time to choose my next location, swell and chop was rolling in and some were about 2.5m high.

I had to tuck tail n run and fast, slow uncomfortable ride back to sydney harbour i stopped on the southern end of curl curl beach on the way where there was a little shelter from the wind.

Rigged up for flathead, first half an hour nothing then suddenly both rods start bouncing and bring up two flatties ( not sure of the species as this is first time i catch this color, im guessing blue spot?). marked the spot and stayed another hour drifting over it hoping and waiting for the conditions to ease a little. Ended up with 7 flatties going from just legal to around 45cm.Also released about half a dozen not legals. All fish caught on pillies. The conditions eased up a little and i made my way back in around 1230.

The flatties will be turned into some nice fillets for lunch tomorrow yum cant wait

Thanks for reading and hope everyone had a good day

[Rock&Beach]

Nice feed of flatties there. Love flathead to eat.

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[Farvos]

Flathead is sensational.. What lurez were you trolling and where abouts? Long reef is a large area is that right? Looking to hit it soon.

[General Zod]

Thanks for sharing. The temptation with boils and sticking with the plan can really be hard sometimes. I feel sorry for the kayak guy if the swell picked up. At least you and the kayak guy got a good feed.

[GoingFishing]

Flathead is sensational.. What lurez were you trolling and where abouts? Long reef is a large area is that right? Looking to hit it soon.

Thanks all for your comments

farvos - I'm no expert about long reef as ive only been there a couple of times, but I can tell you that there is a very small peninsula that is long reef beach.

water depth around this area north south and east of the peninsula is generally 10-15m for about 600-700m in all directions from the peninsula eventually dropping off quite steeply to about 20-25m. most people are fishing the ledge between 10-20m and when you get there you cant miss it, the boats will all be congregated around this area . theres still plenty of fish in the reefy areas in the 10-15m depth. just have to find them.

sorry if i haven't been much help. lures were xrap magnum in pilchard and XMAS tree

[Krispy !]

Very nice bag of flatties mate im sure they'll go down well