What wind?

[3Macks]

Great results there Funchy.

[BR65]

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?

[al49]

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?

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

[Apollo]

You have been taught by the best.

[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?

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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[3Macks]

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.

[Didley]

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

[mangajack]

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

[Funchy]

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

Did I screw up?

[Gippsy]

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