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Trevally are up in the shallows early in the morning. Not a big squire but this 38cm fish was landed on a fresh pilchard on the turn of the tide.
WChanging techniques to catch more fish
ELL 2020 has been one many clients out but at least when big rollercoaster but let’s we’ve been on the water the fishing hope things settle and hasn’t been too bad.
Southern Moreton Bay
by SEAN CONLON
we return to some sort of normality and can all get back to work.
I’ve gone from not being able to work at all to finally being allowed to run my charters once more. This at least allows me to get people out on the
water and generate some much-need- The dropping water temperature
ed cash flow for the business while ensuring I put people onto fish.
has seen flathead push up into the shallows more often. Nice squire have turned up around the southern Moreton Bay islands too.
We will see how it all goes, as things change very quickly with this nasty little bug. I haven’t had very
The flathead in the shallows have mostly been quite happy to take soft plastics as well as trolled hard-bod- ies, but at times they can be a little finicky and I’ve had to try a few techniques to get them to bite.
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For example, I might be trolling my normal Zerek Bulldog Cranks around an area I’m pretty sure has flatties but am having no success. My thoughts would be there might not be quite enough water depth for the aggressive action of the Bulldog Crank.
So to get a reaction out of the fish I need something with a complete- ly different action. This is when I switch to the Zerek Tango Shad, which is a thinner-profile lure with a tighter action.
In certain areas I’ve trolled back- wards and forwards in an area three or four times with the Bulldog Crank with no luck, then deployed