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Launched the kayak at low tide on the mud flats looking for flatties, hoping the recent rains hadn't pushed them to deeper water. 

I find that when the water is looking like willy wonkas chocolate river, bait seems to get left alone. So flicking plastics was the plan. I spent an hour gently drifting up the flats along the edges with not much success. Moving towards the mouth of Narara Creek, there is a very narrow channel that runs inbetween thick weed beds on either side. The beds are up on the flats which are 1-2ft deep and the channel drops off to about 6ft, so fish get forced to go through the channel to go out to open water. If you go trudge through the weeds and try not to spook the fish, you will hook something almost every time.

I cast out into the drop off and flick up off the bottom a few times until I feel some weight. Nothing is happening so I assume I just hooked the kelp. Until the 'Kelp' Wakes up, and the drag starts screaming. Very powerful headshakes and there is sheer weight on the rod. The amount of drag being let off I knew this had to be a good fish.

For the next 10 minutes I gently tried to work it away from the weed beds and close enough to net. Bringing it close to the kayak I could confirm it was a flathead and a good one at that. The next two minutes were spent trying to net it but with no avail, it was just too small for such a fish. I carefully pulled out the lipgrips and finally got it in 

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It's very hard to measure in the kayak, but 74cm was the determination. Absolutely demolishes my previous PB of 63cm. 

The lure was a little far down, but I was able to get it out and safely release her back into the water to wreak havoc on the local poddy mullet population. 

Caught two more flatties that were also released as they were on the small side (34 and 38cm). Also got a tanky bream, but he also went back as I don't really like the taste of Bream from the flats (the beach is a different story however)

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Overall smasher of a day, even though I didn't bag anything and got rained on for half the day. Totally worth it!

 

 

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