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Bate Bay flatties


Yowie

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Fished with a mate today in Bate Bay, out from Cronulla. Hooked up as soon as we hit bottom, then after a short while,  the spikey flatties turned up in big numbers. Cut a few of them up for bait.

When we drifted a bit further out into deeper water, the baits were being chewed off by small jackets, so we moved into shallower water for a few more blue spots. Only 2 throwbacks amongst them. The biggest was 48cm.

As I was hauling up one flattie. something hit the line just below the swivel and chewed through the line, tailor or a couta I suspect. so that flattie will have a 6 ounce snapper lead attached to it's mouth unless it can shake the hook free. :o

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3 hours ago, 61 crusher said:

Another nice bag of flatties there Yowie, what depth were you in when you started losing gear, I’m assuming you started in 30m

Kicked off at under 100 feet  (30m) and the jackets were 120 feet and more.

Did not have any hooks snipped off, apart from the bite off just below the swivel which had fray marks of a tailor or couta. We were using spikey flattie fillets and could feel the small jackets, I'm guessing they would not be big enough to eat, picking at the baits. When the lines were retrieved, there was only skin left on the hooks. To me, that is a sign of small chinaman jackets, so we moved back to shallower water for a second drift.

Only had 2 drifts, started off with a few more blue spots on the 2nd drift then out to the deeper water again and the jackets returned, so headed home.

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