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Max’s early morning squire hooked on a Zerek Live Flash Minnow Wriggly.
DMaking the most of a messed-up time
UE to the crazy circumstances we and Max put on one of the new Wilson are all dealing with, the fishing Fish Art Magnus lures. We deployed the charter and business side of my life lures and began trolling along the man-
Southern Moreton Bay
by SEAN CONLON
is rather minimal to say the least. grove line.
We have all been impacted in some way, whether it be job losses, sick family and friends who have caught this horrible little virus, and those who have lost loved ones from it.
Max with a nice bar-tail flathead caught drift- ing rubble ground.
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My family and I wish everybody the best.
We made a few passes up and down the mangrove line until we found where the fish were sitting. After we located them, it wasn’t long before Maxy was onto a nice flathead.
Hopefully we will get it all under control and maybe our lives will go back to some sort of normality. It would be great if before long we can get back to doing the things we love.
So if I was going to look at the situation with a glass half full instead of empty, the silver lining is I have been able to spend a bit more time out on the water with my family.
After some quick pics we released the fish into the Esky and Maxy was pretty keen to get his lure back in the water.
My young fella and I have tried to stick to the rules, only going boating when es- sential.
We made another couple of passes in the same area and by this stage the tide was starting to run out, so the bait was coming back out of the mangroves and the flatties were sitting there waiting for an easy feed.
We live two minutes from the boat ramp, so we’ve kept it local and have headed out fishing to catch ourselves a feed.
This article is about fishing with my young fella. When fishing with my boy, I do barely anything differently to when I take a client out.
Max hooked up again, with another nice lizard jumping on the little Fish Art lure, making the score two-nil to Max. I was going to have to pick up my game.
I still have a game plan and pick certain tides and tide sizes I like to fish for certain species. The main difference is I’m going to take some fish home for a change, in- stead of my clients taking the fish.
I had faith in the little Bulldog Crank because it’s never let me down before. We released Max’s flatty into the Esky for dinner and put the lures back in the water, continuing trolling the same area.
Young Maxy likes to get up nice and early if we’re heading out fishing, so we picked a day with a good early tide. We got up at 4am and headed to the boat ramp.
The tide was still running out and there wasn’t much water left on the bank, so it was now or never for me to get back into the game.
At the moment there’s a lot more boat traffic during the week than I’m used to, so a bit of patience is required when launch- ing, but Max and I got through quite easily and before we knew it we were heading out of the harbour to chase flathead on the top of the tide.
Luckily enough, I felt that distinct clunk on the end of my line and sure enough an- other nice flathead was soon in the net and scored the same fate as the last two.
We had time for one last quick run be- cause if you get caught on these banks you will spend a lot of time sitting in the mud waiting for the tide to come back in.
Early morning is still the best part of the day in my opinion. We headed to our first location and tied on a couple of lures.
We began our run, deployed the lures and
I chose the trusty Zerek Bulldog Crank
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