Flatty Forage II - Cream rises to the top

[Funchy]

Well another forage run and won. Saturday 18th April saw 7 teams compete for a mind blowing prize of 15 packets of soft plastics / hard body lures. A star studded line up headlined by the Flatty Guru himself one Grant "Didley" flatmiester esquire. Other notable attendees included Rhet, Kingcray, Gunna, Shannon, Shano, Andrew, Nipsta, Dee Cee, Dignity, Shagga and Wallaby Tim.

Kick off was at 6am with most teams on the water in time however thanks to main roads my deckie was a few minutes late.... thank god he got a flat one first cast or I would still be hearing about how he is gonna ring main roads and teach them a thing or two... hahahhaaa.

All teams bar one headed north at the 6am start except Pete and Shano, they headed towards Husseys and beyond. It was smiles all round on Leaping Lizards when Sam landed a mid forties flatty on the first cast. A short while later I landed a mid thirties flatty... we hit the ground running it seemed when Sam had another flatty in the boat within the first hour.... alas that was it for a while for us despite a lot of ground being covered. Kingcray (Deano) had given me a handheld VHF radio at the ramp. I'm assuming so he could track me down at any stage hahahaha... So after a fair while of smack talking back and forth the radio crackles with a "Funchy you there?" "yep" says I "Waddaya reckon, paddle tail or curl tail?" "If I were you I'd use paddle tail cause I use curl tail" "Ten four"... Fast fwd ten minutes later and the radio crackles again with whooping and hollering as Deano lands a nice 62cm flatty on a curl tail grub that ultimately gets him biggest fish of the day and first pick of the prize pool. Other than one more fish Deano and Shannon went without.

By 9am Sam and I decided a change of location was required so I took him up to one of my fav spots and who should we stumble upon but Dids the self proclaimed flatty King and Shagga "The cursed one". We didnt get to close to them and I was sure where he was fishing was barren. How wrong I was. Seems he knows his stuff (and of course back at the BBQ he duly informed us of his vast knowledge). I picked up one more flatty in that spot but that was it for Leaping Lizards. Dids and Shagga however nailed 9 flattys and the deal was seal as far as top spot went for Flatty Forage II. Dids was in fact paid a substantial amount of appearance money and it would appear he earned every cent.

Seems Rhet and Andrew plugged away around the Ski lanes and the Jew hole for a couple. Nipsta and Darren scored a Snodger (Donut). Shano and Pete landed 3 if I recall, Tim got one.
At the days end the boys all met up at the ramp, swapped stories of fish lost and what could have been and listened intently to Dids as he regaled us with stories of crocs and lizards mere mortals can only dream of.

A great day, lots of laughs and camaraderie.


Here's looking forward to the next one

Feel free to put your two cents worth in fellas

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