how easy is this soft plastics caper

[bulldogs195461]

very tongue in cheek comment above,reaping the rewards of many questions asked here and my session with brad smith several months ago,left toowoomba at 4am to fish the coomera land-basedand landed the following in 2hrs all on 3inch powerbaits ,bloodworm scales with tt 1/8 jigs,can someone tell me what the wierd looking fish is please,im pretty sure the one with the spot is a trevally i actually caught the poor bugger twice the bigger flattie went 40cm.just to stop me getting a big head i switched to a hardbody for practice and promptly lost my $15 lure up a tree,lol cheers john

[max pwr]

Nice work there mate..... Good to see a healthy little cod there, should be plenty bigger ones about soon :cheer:

[bulldogs195461]

ok,so thats a cod max,i thought it was a flatty at first he put his head out of the water,and shook a little.can you eat them mate.john

[max pwr]

Yeah they're good to eat but I usually chuck em back cos I've got a soft spot for them. Flatties on the other hand.............

[TIM D]

Nice landbased session mate

The fish with the spot on it is a moses perch, cod is a black spot cod and im sure you know the other two are flatties.

What was the hardbody you donated to the tree fish

cheers tim

[Doobsy]

Nice li'l mixed bag session there.

I love Cod. They eat crabs, prawns and fish and have a lovely, firm white flesh. If I ever catch one or two at around the 45cm mark, they're dinner. Any other size goes back.

[bulldogs195461]

it was a damiki vault,one thing i found was when i switched to the vibration lure,was after i tried to go back to the sps i didnt have the touch i had before i changed ,anyone else find this or is it my imagination,i put it down to just needing the experience,from switching around.john

[Stevodevo]

Good on ya mate for a good day out ,and as Tim says the one with spot is moses perch and other one cod I just didn't know what kind, sorry to hear about the loss of lure and the perch is suppose to be good eating too.

[richard7785]

Yeah they're good to eat but I usually chuck em back cos I've got a soft spot for them. Flatties on the other hand.............

haha im the same. i got reefed by a big sucker today in brissie river fought him for about 10 min and finally spat the hook as i got him out of the reef. was sooo annoyed. second time thats happened to me there

[james1981]

What a great catch, were in the coomera was it.

[MoparKevUk]

Nice work, keep an eye on the size limits if you are keeping....

[bulldogs195461]

no worries mopar,they all released but if in doubt i put them back.in this case i didnt even know what the cod or perch was,or wether edible to me the cod doesnt look it,but it is.all part of the learning curve.john

[ryanyoung]

it was a damiki vault,one thing i found was when i switched to the vibration lure,was after i tried to go back to the sps i didnt have the touch i had before i changed ,anyone else find this or is it my imagination,i put it down to just needing the experience,from switching around.john

It's just a bit of experience to change that mate, the other option would be to take a couple of rods out, and have one for each artificial ie: softs and hards, this might help.

Good session there, I imagine the confidence has been boosted quite a bit by it.

Ryan.

[Scope]

Some nice fish there mate, well done