What wind?

Had an itch to scratch Had no falatty fillets in the freezer so it was time to restock. Some wind was predicted but usually here you get a couple of hours reprieve in the mornings as the sun comes up. Saturday was no exception. Was on the water at 5:30am and fishing by 5:35am

Targeted points close to the mangroves just as Did’s had showed me countless times. Had three in succession and the keeper bag was looking very healthy by 6:30am. I landed a few more smaller ones and dropped a couple of good ones boatside then things went quiet so I moved. Shortly after arriving at the new spot Did’s had showed me last time we were out I put another keeper in the bag. Then I cast in close to the mangroves right on the point and felt that familiar tic as a flat one hit my placcy. I paused then lifted the rod tip to set the hook and felt a fair bit of weight. She resisted a bit but didn’t really know she was hooked so she got close to the boat before she went crazy. About now my phone rang so I answered and put it on speaker. Cousin Craig was on the other end and he got to enjoy the next 10 or so minutes of the tussle via speaker phone. At one stage I got her boat side and as I slid the net under her she thrashed and went straight through the net and the frame. Now my line was through the net and out in the water peeling off line as she got a second wind. Craig was now hearing a bloke shreaking and crying that he was about to lose a monster. Luckily I calmed down and managed to get it back to the boat and in the net. She went 75cms and was fat. She was more then half as wide as the brag mat if you look closely. She went back to get even bigger :)

I caught about 8 more and then decided to head home when the wind got too blowy. On the way home I was flagged down by a bloke and his young son who were stranded after his black anchor went bang. Good Samaritan duties out of the way I cleaned the fish and headed home.

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Like your work there Funchy
By the sound of it, that Dids knows his way around those Flat ones and what a humble man sharing his knowledge like that not wanting any praise.
Also, good deeds never go astray.

Top effort that. Your a lucky man too have such tutelage from the Grandmaster. Kudos to the tow, good karma is coming your way.

Nice one Funchy, a top morning on the very smooth water, Are those Falatty fillet's as good to eat as Flathead ?:D

Good job there grasshopper, your coming along nicely.

Good stuff mate. Can't wait to get up there again.

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Good stuff mate. Can't wait to get up there again.

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would be good to catch up for a fish Shagga

Nice food aging there mate

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Nice food aging there mate

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Had an itch to scratch Had no falatty fillets in the freezer so it was time to restock. Some wind was predicted but usually here you get a couple of hours reprieve in the mornings as the sun comes up. Saturday was no exception. Was on the water at 5:30am and fishing by 5:35am

Targeted points close to the mangroves just as Did’s had showed me countless times. Had three in succession and the keeper bag was looking very healthy by 6:30am. I landed a few more smaller ones and dropped a couple of good ones boatside then things went quiet so I moved. Shortly after arriving at the new spot Did’s had showed me last time we were out I put another keeper in the bag. Then I cast in close to the mangroves right on the point and felt that familiar tic as a flat one hit my placcy. I paused then lifted the rod tip to set the hook and felt a fair bit of weight. She resisted a bit but didn’t really know she was hooked so she got close to the boat before she went crazy. About now my phone rang so I answered and put it on speaker. Cousin Craig was on the other end and he got to enjoy the next 10 or so minutes of the tussle via speaker phone. At one stage I got her boat side and as I slid the net under her she thrashed and went straight through the net and the frame. Now my line was through the net and out in the water peeling off line as she got a second wind. Craig was now hearing a bloke shreaking and crying that he was about to lose a monster. Luckily I calmed down and managed to get it back to the boat and in the net. She went 75cms and was fat. She was more then half as wide as the brag mat if you look closely. She went back to get even bigger :)

I caught about 8 more and then decided to head home when the wind got too blowy. On the way home I was flagged down by a bloke and his young son who were stranded after his black anchor went bang. Good Samaritan duties out of the way I cleaned the fish and headed home.

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Did you talk to Craig via Siri, he would have had an interesting account of the fight.

Great results there Funchy.

Hey Luke, can you spill a little detail on targetting the points? Once the tide floods over the flats Im on my way home, be interested to hear how you fish it?

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that first hour of the flood in has seen me have some great sessions on the flatty Bri with them moving up higher on the bar as the water moves in

You have been taught by the best.

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No Worries Rakey. I find (sorry, Did's told me) that flathead will lay in ambush close to the mangroves just as the bait is able to get into the mangroves on a rising tide, or is forced out of the mangroves by a dropping tide. I have also found that the points seem to hold more flattys. I assume this is because it hold more bait due to eddys, shallower water and in these cooler months that means more sun for the big girls to sunbathe in. I have screen shotted google maps down your way to show where I would target if I went down there to give you an idea of what I am talking about (Apologies if this is a green zone, I didn't check and I have never fished here). I try and chase the first of the water up onto these points as the tide rises. If you can time this with sun rise/set it is excellent (Just like low tide is good). Really you are looking for conditions in which a flathead will have the best chance to ambush bait and this is one because the bait want to get into the mangroves for protection and they have to play red rover all over to get past the flatties.

Hope that explains it. Happy for you to head up my way some time and come for a fish with me in some of Did's spots.


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Great lesson there Luke. Same thinking goes for gutters without mangroves that dry or near dry. Have found that the flathead will follow the bait in. For bait fishermen, best bait is what you catch in a cast net at your feet. Straight on the hook and cast back in live usually gets a flathead. Mind you, I am no expert, must be 5 years since I fished for flathead.

Yeah, he's left a few things out, but that's the guts of it.

Ok Rakey, make corrections to the map.....

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Did I screw up?

Looks to be an arrow up tripcony. Is that on the other side of the signs

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Looks to be an arrow up tripcony. Is that on the other side of the signs

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What’s that?

Tripcony Bight and surrounds is a Green zone

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Yeah I said in my post it was to illustrate the types of spots to look for. I even said I don’t know if it’s green zone. You peeps need to read all the post :P

Still good as how to fish a particular area.

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Yeah I said in my post it was to illustrate the types of spots to look for. I even said I don’t know if it’s green zone. You peeps need to read all the post :P

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It would be nice if Google Maps included restricted areas.

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Yeah I said in my post it was to illustrate the types of spots to look for. I even said I don’t know if it’s green zone. You peeps need to read all the post :P

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Don't worry Funchy, since the invent of mobile phones, computers, texting, LOL, LMAO, ROFLMFAO, emojis and spellcheck, it's obvious people can't read anymore. Just lucky you put pictures in or no one would have known what you were talking about. It's obvious from the comments that the art of reading and then understanding what they read, is becoming a lost art form.

Took a train into the city the other day, walked around southbank, West End and South Brisbane. It's amazing how many signs on trains, billboards and other public places these days are pictures instead of words. It seems we evolved from living in caves, then drawing pictures on rocks to communicate, then we learnt to talk, then read. Now it seems we are starting to go backwards. We are relying now on pictures to communicate, whilst losing the ability to read and communicate through words. Can just see it now, another 20 years we will be back living in caves clubbing our food to death, wearing Mammoth skin clothes and dragging our women around by the hair. 20 years after that, we won't know how to light a fire and the wheel will be forgotten.

All theoretical of course and just pulling the piss, ;)

Was there words. I just seen pictures. I got you funchy. Just taking the piss

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Can just see it now, another 20 years we will be back living in caves clubbing our food to death, wearing Mammoth skin clothes and dragging our women around by the hair. 20 years after that, we won't know how to light a fire and the wheel will be forgotten.

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that seem like the retirement I have planed TB, but I'm taking a lighter and can of petrol, cause I like fire.

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I find that even Navionics webapp is difficult to understand. You need to have a zoning map beside you initially to understand the zoning stated. After that it should be just a matter of clicking on a spot and then clicking on the question mark and then Moreton Bay dropdown.

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Don't worry Funchy, since the invent of mobile phones, computers, texting, LOL, LMAO, ROFLMFAO, emojis and spellcheck, it's obvious people can't read anymore. Just lucky you put pictures in or no one would have known what you were talking about. It's obvious from the comments that the art of reading and then understanding what they read, is becoming a lost art form.

Took a train into the city the other day, walked around southbank, West End and South Brisbane. It's amazing how many signs on trains, billboards and other public places these days are pictures instead of words. It seems we evolved from living in caves, then drawing pictures on rocks to communicate, then we learnt to talk, then read. Now it seems we are starting to go backwards. We are relying now on pictures to communicate, whilst losing the ability to read and communicate through words. Can just see it now, another 20 years we will be back living in caves clubbing our food to death, wearing Mammoth skin clothes and dragging our women around by the hair. 20 years after that, we won't know how to light a fire and the wheel will be forgotten.

All theoretical of course and just pulling the piss, ;)

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I'm waiting for the day when everyone stops laughing and just shouts out Lol,lol,lol.....lol.

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Those green zones closed a couple of my go to spots down when they were implemented, sucks driving past them.

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No Worries Rakey. I find (sorry, Did's told me) that flathead will lay in ambush close to the mangroves just as the bait is able to get into the mangroves on a rising tide, or is forced out of the mangroves by a dropping tide. I have also found that the points seem to hold more flattys. I assume this is because it hold more bait due to eddys, shallower water and in these cooler months that means more sun for the big girls to sunbathe in. I have screen shotted google maps down your way to show where I would target if I went down there to give you an idea of what I am talking about (Apologies if this is a green zone, I didn't check and I have never fished here). I try and chase the first of the water up onto these points as the tide rises. If you can time this with sun rise/set it is excellent (Just like low tide is good). Really you are looking for conditions in which a flathead will have the best chance to ambush bait and this is one because the bait want to get into the mangroves for protection and they have to play red rover all over to get past the flatties.

Hope that explains it. Happy for you to head up my way some time and come for a fish with me in some of Did's spots.


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Thanks for that mate. Down where I bank walk you can see the lies right up on the edge of the mangrove finger roots, I figured they were either targetting the bait on the way in or out, depending which way the lay is facing, or maybe using the finger roots as a "fence" for lack of a better word, to corral the bait to them.
I tend to target 2 things, drain mouths are obvious fish holding zones, and lizards will lie up in pretty damn shallow water in them. Allways worth a cast or 3.
The other thing I fish is parralel to the weed edges that line parts of the passage. I just mosey along into the current, just moving forward slowly, and cast up current, bouncing the softy back along the weed edges, they seem to like sitting hard against these and facing into the current, which makes sense I suppose. Get a bit of Cod by catch doing this funnilly enough. If theres a bit of water in behind that weed edge holding bait, and you come across a break in the weed, you can guarantee therell be a lizard there, its just a bait highway.
Nothing new for most, just what I do.
Oh, and the Pro Cure scent, love the scent..