SP first tryout

[flatty_catcher]

well im on holiday inland but on the way i stopped at yamba to have a few nights by the sea and a bit of an early morning fish.

I was fishing the outgoing tide off the wall and was casting bait into the beach, when i decided to try the SP',s

I made a hopless first cast and it went down too close to the rocks so I retreived it quickly and suprisingly enough I snagged a flattie..unbeleivable, he was just onsize and spat the hook on the rocks and I lost him, but I couldn't beleive it.

Didn't catch much because I arrived late but seen a guy lose a good size flattie off the rocks,( like myself he forgot to bring his landing net), but was a great morning out.

Next day I tried the 100mm squidgies at whiting beach because I wanted somthing that would lure a flattie like the ones i had been seeing pulled out of the bay.

Didnt get any but to my suprise a 25cm whiting whacked the SP and took quite a large hook as the 100mm squidgie are, I was suprised (ravenous little bugger).

sorry no pics my GF left the camera at home , which was a shame.

..also I caught a 40cm rainbow trout on a N03 red on silver celta, casting into the McDonald River just past Woolbrook.

It was the only one and I had a few hits the next day but nothing like the first one.

hope to have some pics next time. thanks

[Cowfish13]

To get a fish on your first time using plastics is awesome:cheer:

Well done:)

[flatty_catcher]

thanks mate

I have a lot of luck at casting into the end of a beach on the outgoing tide for flattie, Im guessing the big flatties sit there and

ambush the bait fish leaving the beach in the outgoing tide channel,

I dont even use a beach rod and still do ok.

But didnt do so well this time but I cant wait to give the SP's a run around Morton Bay.

Regards

[username_taken]

Yeah that's the perfect place for flatties, in a channel on a run out tide. there's a great spot up at D-Bay just up from the Dept Fisheries building that you can walk the mangroves at low tide for such a channel. I got my first flattie on SPs there. One day soon I'll drag the kayak up.

[rayke1938]

Thanks for report. Dint tell Dinodadog about the trout or he will be drooling everywhere.

Cheers

Ray

[Dinodadog]

You are right there Ray. Flattycatcher my 1st trip down to the trout country a couple of years ago I got a 5lb,4lb,4lb,3lb,3lb,2lb. on lures and was instantly barred from lure fishingso I had to learn the fly.,

[flatty_catcher]

yep the fly fishing is the go in some of the rivers round where I go.

probably big Browns too,depends on the river , Im looking forward to a bit of fly fishing myself in the future..great stuff, heh but im still a lure/spinner bloke at the moment so I guess I have a bit to go.

ill just add they have been geting some good rains round those parts, lets just hoope they get some more, it seems the rivers need a good hit of fresh to get the good trout out of their hiding spots.

[username_taken]

don't forget with a nice light rig you can spin with flies

[Bommie]

aaahhh trout:cheer: Ebor

[flatty_catcher]

we drove through ebor, it was drissly and overcast , nice and cold too, great trout weather, the rivers we drove past in that area looked good too.

We ended up staying at walcha,it was lovely and quiet, real good little break from the big smoke.