Macleay flathead

[dirvin21]

My mate convinced me to got target some flathead around South West Rocks, I don't normally target them as I get kind of narrow sighted on targeting bream.

We headed to the main river first and it still looks aweful, the water is black from recent rains and not likely to clear up anytime soon.

Hit one of the small creeks instead with flathead lays everywhere it looked like a sure thing and of course the fish played hard to get. The first hour saw us land a couple of fish each the biggest about 20cm.

Then I pulled out the "secret weapon" being a sinking stickbait and 3rd cast finally some weight on the other end,

he fought hard for his size

Kept casting my mate finally landed a reasonable fish on fly, and another solid take and again long hard runs I was thinking a big fish but again another average size fish in the low 50's

 

that was it for the decent fish a few more miniscule flatties, whiting and bream finished the session off

cheers for reading 

Dave

 

[Omally]

Not bad at all matey...going up soon myself to see an old mate . Last time I was up there was awesome even got a half decent jewie ...love fishing up there 

[Brainfish]

Terrible  place . No fish there.  Best to go elsewhere  ?

[Scratchie]

Nice work! Certainly a good area to fish. Well done ? 

cheers scratchie!!! 

[masterfisho7]

Some top flathead Dave well done .