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The author caught this nice lizard casting Flash Wrigglys in the shallows.
The author’s son Max, dad and brother Tony with a nice little feed of fish to take home after a great day on the water.
Simon with a southern Moreton Bay school mackerel caught on a Zerek Ripper Diver.
Family flathead fishing fun around Moreton Bay
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around and while trawl-
ing the weather and the right-sized tide for us to head out and target a few flatties down the Broadwater.
in the water and kept trolling.
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ing for flatties you may run into a few trevally in the shallows as well, which is always great fun.
So, I met them down at Jacobs Well a couple of hours before the bot- tom of the tide and we headed out to chase a few flathead.
The next to hook- up was my brother with another nice fish around the 48cm mark, then Max caught anoth- er one.
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If the water is nice and clean up against the mangroves, don’t be afraid to use gold col- ours and maybe some- thing a little brighter, but if the water dirt- ies up again go back to your darker colours.
Now, my brother doesn’t use lures very often because he likes his bait, but we were going to change that, so we headed to do a couple of drains and as the tide was falling away we put a few casts in, and believe me it didn’t take long and my brother had a nice 49cm flatty in the boat.
Most fish were around 45-48cm, and over the next hour I caught a couple, dad scored a couple and we had a great time.
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Also don’t be afraid to try different types of lures because some- times they want a smaller lure with a more aggressive action such as a Zerek bulldog crank, and then other times they want the Ze- rek tango shads, with their thinner profile and tighter action.
Tony and Maxy were catching more fish than Dad and I by using Tan- goShads.
At other times they want something in be- tween and that’s when I find the little Wilson fish art lure works quite well.
This is where things got a little interesting because my father piped up and challenged my young boy Max with a $20 bet to see who could catch the biggest flathead out of the two of them.
All good things must come to an end, so we pulled up on a beach to have a sandwich, chat and clean the few fish we kept for a feed.
Bill with a nice southern Moreton Bay flathead.
One of his first ever fish on a soft plastic.
While not big fish, we found plenty of them and had lots of fun.
This lure was definite- ly the standout, with my brother and Max catch- ing at least twice as many fish as Dad and I.
That leads me to a nice flathead session I had with my boy Maxy, my dad and my brother Tony.
The pressure was on, and we put a few more casts in the same ar- ea but no luck, so we moved to another lo- cation.
Young Maxy won the bet with the longest fish, so the old boy had to hand over a $20 and Maxy was pretty happy.
As I said, we hav- en’t fished together for years because my dad‘s health hasn’t been great for a while, so we didn’t think we were even go- ing to have another fish with him, but we were really lucky and the stars aligned, includ-
We all had a great time and will do it againsometime.
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We put the lures back
And after that little session we may have turned another bait fisher over to the dark side of lures.
Simon caught this flathead casting Flash Wrigglys in the shallows.
We started troll- ing hard-bodies and it didn’t take long before young Maxy had a flat- head in the boat – he gave it a measure and it was exactly 49cm.
An advantage of not going to work all the time is we can get out and enjoy days like this.
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