Slow Start...Cracker Finish

[Try Hard]

Gday guys,
Arrived to Vines creek this arvo to water the same colour as milo. Very slow start with Joel and I releasing a box of nitro jigheads and a bag of gulp into the system within the first 2 hours. Joel had caught his PB stick and I'de only caught a few small cod before we decided to grab a feed at the near-by corner store. With our bellies full and our rigs retied, we set off re-enthused and ready to get into the low tide bream bite. We started wading around our usual spot for only 2 small flathead and a just legal bream when we discovered that the usual rock/gravel bottom had been washed away and was now under a few feet of sand. What a bugger - our prime bream spot has just been stuffed up and now what do we do? We ended up down at a realy deep whole thats known for its better class of bream. My second cast with a 3 inch minnow resulted in a subtle tap on the drop so i quickly struck and was loosing line fast! Woooo horse bream I yelled as Joel came running but when this thing thing just kept running and head shaking, my thoughts changed to a nice little trevally. All that went out the window when 5 minutes later i beached a massive scat. It went 48cm and was like a bloody serving tray! Just before we left I lost 2 tarpon in 2 casts due to their acrobatics.

Anyways,
Cheers aye,
Isaac

[chook]

thats a not bad session well done for landing that scat on bream gear

[Talina]

Awesome stuff Isaac!!! What a fantastic little session!! To be honest i dont think I have ever seen a scat before, it looks like something that you would catch out on the reef!

I bet you that your glad to see some good weather for once, as it seem like a beautiful day in the photos!!!

[adidaspeteman]

I too have not seen a scat before, a different looking fish hey? Nice to see a new species falling to the all powerful bream fisho's, go the ultralight!

[echo1]

Saw a few of those in the zoo with the croc. Interesting fish. Great job mate.

[ActiveAngler]

Gday Isaac,

Great session mate and a good variety of species for a shore bash.

That SCAT what a weird looking fish - but I reckon with that big paddle body - she was put on a bit of resistance on light gear / tackle.

Nice work mate and once again - great report.

Cheers - Benno.

[booker]

nice report, glad to see the rain go.

[Guided Fishing Australia]

watch those scat... I used to catch them all the time in my local estuary.. got a few that spined me in the hand.. you know about it trust me...

[nugg]

its funny you say that ozchris, they have the same toxin as the happy moments in there spines so they dont tickle, hehe they got me too a few times picking them out of the cast net or getting them off my hooks. they pull like freight trains as well, i could not emagin how hard one that size would have gorn.

[Try Hard]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I got spined in the hoof back in my baito days by one...NEVER AGAIN! Spine went straight through my mudboot and into the big toe...it throbed in pain for the next half hour or so but I still managed to land a few small barra that day!