Flatty fishing the high tide milkshake

Was well enough to launch and retrieve solo Sunday (after the missus help me hook up the tinny) :bigthumb:

High tide was around 9:30 so I didn't launch until 7am. The plan was to flick in close to the mangroves and see if I could entice a bite from the flattys gorging themselves on all the prawns about. Last week the prawns were thick yet Sunday they had thinned out a fair bit. This was a good thing because with less bait about the flatties came to the party. I ended up taking my bag limit home with 5 nice keepers. I also released another 8 legal fish. They really came on at the top of the tide and just as it turned. I would say they are just starting to really fire as they have finished spawning. The flatty fillets were a little lean as they had lost condition spawning.

Best fish went 62cms (I kept it as it had swallowed the placcy pretty deep as pictured)

Love this time of year with the slightly cooler days.


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That's great going

Good stuff Luke.

Nice one, and they were hungry. That one really took to that big blue lure.

Nice job funchy. ansd yes I get it Sheik

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Originally Posted by Sheik

Nice one, and they were hungry. That one really took to that big blue lure.

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They are effective but I have trouble casting them on the 1-3 kg rod

Nice work mate, good to see the backs coming on enough you can fish. :)

Nice session that do you get visual takes down there love it when you see the flatty rise up to take placcy

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Originally Posted by al49

Nice session that do you get visual takes down there love it when you see the flatty rise up to take placcy

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Yeah Al, I get to see a lot of the takes due to fishing shallow. Also, when they are really on the bite I put a popper on. They love poppers early morning on the bottom of the tide.

I also have a bit of video fotage soewhere of a flatty taking my plastic just as it's about to hit the water from the cast. It must see it coming through the air and it launches up and smacks it in mid air then tails dances across the water like a marlin as it fights against my line. Epic strike. Certainly gets the heart pumping.

Nothing better than blind casting poppers over flats hoping to pick up whiting or bream and seeing a big bucket mouth flatty explode on it.