lure that works for Flathead, Whitting, and Bream

[fishingfon]

hi, please can someone tell me of a soft plastic or hard body that will work for Flathead, Whitting, and Bream, from the flats at mouth of the pine river

and what popper will work for the fish at the same place

Thanks Corey

[Whiskers]

Go grab a bunch of cheap little poppers and shallow divers mix up the colours and go for it

[Scope]

Grab a pack of damiki armour shad's mate. They'll do the job, at about 9 bucks a packet they're a pretty reasonably priced plastic.

[chonna]

its hard to go past the berkley range of lures from big w for $4 each!!!

im fairly sure that one of the berkley lures is a goto lure for some of the guys on here for flathead, not sure which one though

[chris_stewart14]

I'd get a Jackal Chubby in the Suji Shrimp colour if I were you dude.. Majority of the fish on those flats are Flathead with the odd Bream thrown in. I've fished there many times and the toadfish are $hithouse for tearing plastics apart.. Slow rolling a hardbody around the place is by far the most effective method. All those 3 you mentioned will smash a chubby plus on the Flats you dont need to stress snagging and losing it unless it's to a Flathead deepthroating it and busting you off in which case it's always strangley worth it.

Same with an Ecogear SX 40 but the chubby will dominate it for casting distance so it's a better searching lure.

Chris

[tangles]

I was down there yesterday. Boated 8 flatties for 4 keepers and 1 stonker bluenose whiting. All were caught on Berkley gulp 3" minnows in smelt on 1/16 jigheads.

Chris is right on the money about the toads. I went through a full packet of plastics because the toads bite the tails off.

I don't think the selection of the plastic is all that important for flatties, they're everywhere at the moment and hitting anything that moves.

Good luck.

[piscione88]

burkley camo prawn two inch they dont have big tails to get dusted by toads and flatty love em

[Bluevien]

I've been been fishing the Pine solidly for the last 3 weeks using Gulp 4inch pumpkin seed minnows and 100mm Squidgy wrigglers on 1/8 jigheads with a very slow retrieve. Like others have said, they are getting ripped up by toads and pike but have also been picking up good sized lizards and bream. It could be the size of the SPs I use because I have only caught 1 undersized fish in this time. All others have all been well over legal. Seems like natural colours are working best too. Good luck.

[hooked_on_trout]

Viking crank minnow- brown with black spots (caught cod flatty and bream on this one)

Atomic hardz (nice holos there)

SX-40- ecogear (why not, they have a nice color range too)

Attack lures - very underrated lure comes at $8.00 a peice and will do bream flatty and whiting.

Micro mullet-lively lure (Good for bream cod and flatty)

SP would be tempted to try a blood worm for whiting in red or camo. you will have to experiment yourself here.Also for whiting I would go 4lb leader and lighter jiggs around 1/20, 1/12, small hook.

[webbfunk]

chris_stewart14 wrote:

I'd get a Jackal Chubby in the Suji Shrimp colour if I were you dude.. Majority of the fish on those flats are Flathead with the odd Bream thrown in. I've fished there many times and the toadfish are $hithouse for tearing plastics apart.. Slow rolling a hardbody around the place is by far the most effective method. All those 3 you mentioned will smash a chubby plus on the Flats you dont need to stress snagging and losing it unless it's to a Flathead deepthroating it and busting you off in which case it's always strangley worth it.

Same with an Ecogear SX 40 but the chubby will dominate it for casting distance so it's a better searching lure.

Chris

Ditto.

What Chris said, when ever I've used a chubby, and there are fish there it will come up with the goods.

[hooked_on_trout]

Jackal chubby...

Flathead lure?

[webbfunk]

Yeah, as long as its not too deep water. I've had quite a few flatties hit a chubby in a 1 metre deep.

[hooked_on_trout]

webbfunk wrote:

Yeah, as long as its not too deep water. I've had quite a few flatties hit a chubby in a 1 metre deep.

yeah fair enough, no reason why he wouldn't take some flatty on em (keep the leader @10lb, any lighter and you get bitten off too easily).

cheers

[fishingfon]

hi, thanks a lot everyone i got a nice size bream

i was using a Jackal Chubby and Berkley gulp 3" minnows in moldy cheese on 3 gram jigheads

[Scope]

Good to hear you're getting on to em mate