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Maxy got a few prawns. Maxy with a nice flathead caught on the Fish Max landed some flathead for dinner for the Art Magnus lure. family.
* from P20
Making the most of a messed-up time
trolled with the current. Just as we were getting to the end of the run, I felt that all-too-familiar clunk on the end of the line and after a few nice runs around the boat young Maxy had my second flathead safely in the net.
We headed to the Salt Works and started sounding around. With my dodgy back, I have to be a bit careful when casting the net, so I always make sure I have plenty of prawns showing up on the Lowrance before making a cast.
A week later I was lucky enough to head out with Maxy again. This time he was keen to chase squire/snapper, so we headed to the rubble ground around the southern Moreton Bay islands to employ a tech- nique I like that works really well for kids: bumping a few plastics around the bottom.
The old Bulldog Crank didn’t let me down and I evened the score. By this stage we had four nice fish for a feed, which is plenty for us, so we decided to see if we could get an entrée of prawns.
It didn’t take too long for us to snag around 3kg of prawns, which is heaps for an entrée. It was time to head home and get off the water before lunch. All in all, we had a great morning and I was able to spend quality time with my son.
Just like the previous session, we got up nice and early, headed to the boat ramp and were out just on sun-up. We tied on a cou- ple of Zerek Live Minnow Flash Wrigglys.
I used black and gold while Max had straight gold. We cast them out the back and began doing long drifts, starting in roughly 2m of water and finishing in about 8m.
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I put plenty of scent on the lures for this technique. I think it’s quite important. As * continued P23
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Pretty good bait schools are around. It is a case of finding the bait to find the fish.
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