queensland Coomera River 13/06/09

[plugga]

Area: Coomera River.

Bait: Prawns.

Rod: 2-5kg Shimnao Sahara.

Reel: Sahara 1500, spooled with 6 pound Berkley Fireline.

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[plugga]

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[dan25]

thats a ripper of a flatty plugga :cheer:

great effort mate :woohoo:

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[Keechie]

nice fish, how big did he go?

[Jaymz711]

wow nice catch mate.. how big did it go?

[plugga]

He was 76cm and took me 27 mins to bring in on my light gear

[Keechie]

And by the looks of the photo you kept it, so by my understanding its oversized.

[Dasa05]

I was thinking the same thing Keechie thats oversized for sure? hope the monster was released

[bretto]

Keechie wrote:

And by the looks of the photo you kept it, so by my understanding its oversized.

Would be sad to see a fish of that caliber killed.

[pinkey]

27minutes to land a flathead LOL? you have it in freespool? and a stopwatch by your side. Big flatty tho, should be released.

[plugga]

It was released! I went down to the bank with a wet towel and swam him and he swam away!

[tomca]

And big girls like that one are poor table quality, so no reason not to release, aside from the legalities

[pinkey]

Good to hear.

Just try n find a better way to hold them up for the photo, hand in mouth with cloth or lip grips while supporting the belly. The way your holding it looks pretty easy for the flathead to shake and slip out of your hands and own itself on the ground?

[wesfish]

nice lizard there mate, top effort for the coomera!!

[Angus]

Plugga glad you releasesd it as 75cm is the new legal limit and a lot of people are fans of the old 70cm limit.

Not having a go as no one will know unless told, but for future reference, dont hold fish up byt the tail or head so the body weight is straining the fish as a whole. Fish skeletons are not as sturdy as out of water animals and this stress can be enough to insure death even if released.

Next time try to:

* Keep the fish wet.

* Support the fish's body weight.

* Have it out of the water as little as possible.

Nice catch.

Angus

[TomW]

Nice job Plugga, should submit it as a 'Fish of the Month' on FishingAus.. You'd be in a chance at winning some packs of quality jigheads

Thanks Tom

[plugga]

Ok thanks angus, I fogot to pick my lip grippers up i left them at home.

[chaujern]

nice flattie plugga :cheer:

everybody forgets gear now and then ... at least you didn't forget your tacklebox ... like someone i know :blush: lol

[boz]

my old man forgot the key to the boat and we were over an hour away

[yoyo]

Plugga you b@stard... Was this caught morning or late afternoon ?

I was fishing the coomera overflow late yesterday afternoon and could only rustle

up some 25cm bream....

What leader did you have on ? A fight with a big flattie for that long you are very lucky it didnt aw its way thru your leader....

Prob have a look at your drag settings as well, you could prob turn the heat up a bit and apply a whole lot more pressure to your fish. This will increase the liklihood of a succesful release as well...

BUT all that said.......... great fish...sh*ts all over my flattie PB !

Too bad it wasn't on SP hey mate ? :laugh: :laugh:

[fishinking]

27 minutes but whos counting haha. mate should be trying to get these on plastics. if u spent as much time fishing plastics as bait u wud have had one by now

[Feral]

Well Plugga, thats a stonka fish, congratulations on great catch!

[adambris]

was that live prawns or servo prawns?

adam

[plugga]

Coles prawns

[chris_stewart14]

Epic fish mate -- you now have a bigger PB Bream & Flathead than me :blush:

Nice work!!

[plugga]

Changing the thread a bite but, chris I got my first Bream on a sp today he went 21cm:)

[clonn2]

That is 76cm of the deadest flathead i have seen. Well done.

[Dazzamcgee]

Nice catch mate!!

I'm pretty sure that it didnt swim away!

[mick fillet]

The tail still as vivid colours in it and the pectral fins are flared like that of a living fish in the last shot its gills are slightly raised as well...through my eyes it looks alive.

nice catch and release there plugga,congrats on the bream as well.

[boz]

didnt you catch one the other week at the spit on a slam sp a 46cm bream

[plugga]

no I caught some bream on slam ISTANT BAIT

[straddiebrad]

nice fish plugger your game holding it up in the air like that well done on a memorable moment.

[fisherjack1394]

aye nice flattie mate

[Bluevien]

Great fish Plug. Glad that she swam away.

[fisherjack1394]

aye nice flattie plugger its a bit bigger than the one i caught lol, it was only 15cm