Port Hacking Thursday short and sweet.

[Welster]

I managed to snag a couple of days of work with my daughter on school holidays.  She chose to go fishing and target flathead, so who was I to argue?

We kicked off from Swallow rock around 8 headed down south in nice conditions to our flathead grounds.

The conditions were pretty good with the day warming nicely, plenty of whales still about a decent drift and the fish joining in, it really doesn't get much better.  After a few nice hours on the water we had our feed and headed home. 
 

I was surprised how warm the water was at around 19 degrees outside the hacking with a much more chilly 14 up river.    The flatties ranged from 37-48 cm.  One of the bigger ones had a fat belly with a recently consumed red spot whiting.  Mostly blue spots with the one Tiger flathead.  

 

Edited July 10, 2021 by Welster
Yowie pointed out my species ID errors 🤭

[Rebel]

Great haul. Well done.

There's nothing better than fishing with your Children.

Cheers.

[Yowie]

Nice bag of fish, a good day to be out. 

The 4th fish down looks like a tiger flattie.

[Welster]

2 hours ago, Rebel said:

Great haul. Well done.

There's nothing better than fishing with your Children.

Cheers.

Absolutely although fishing with Dad is pretty good too. 

[Welster]

2 hours ago, Yowie said:

Nice bag of fish, a good day to be out. 

The 4th fish down looks like a tiger flattie.

Thanks Yowie you are correct.  I don't know why but i thought the read underneath the mouth was the marble flathead.    I will edit my post.  

[jenno64]

That's a winner...getting a feed with the kids in tow and in perfect conditions!!

[Welster]

2 hours ago, jenno64 said:

That's a winner...getting a feed with the kids in tow and in perfect conditions!!

Thanks opportunities to get out have been very rare this year. 

[Rebel]

Mate, you are the fullback. The kids are the front row.