Hi guys
Here is a big flathead I speared while floundering in Port Phillip Bay a few weeks ago.
Here is a big flathead I speared while floundering in Port Phillip Bay a few weeks ago.
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02-06-2004, 03:29 PM
SENSATIONAL fish Jazman!!!
you forgot to tell us WHERE you speared the flatty <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='  ' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> AK
02-06-2004, 04:42 PM
well done jaz! that one is a ripper. if only they were all that big!... we would have one of the best fisheries on earth!!!
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02-06-2004, 05:20 PM
Haha, cheers fellas,
Sorry AK, I speared that flathead in the head...... <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' /> No seriously, it was off Chelsea, incoming tide, still and moonless night. I have seen at least 3 that big in the past month, and dozens smaller. I knew the big fish were there, but (as those of you who have done a bit of floundering will know) flathead usually don't hang around, I reckon I get a CHANCE of spearing about 1 in 10 that I see, the rest take off before you can get close to them. So I decided that I would put in the time, until I got a big one. And eventually I did, but this was after at least a dozen trips, in the freezing cold, and after seeing heaps of fish that I couldn't get (but it was worth it!). MORAL of the story is persistence pays! Cheers Jaz <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' />
02-06-2004, 05:55 PM
wellmdoen jaz.. i'm spewing i didn;t come with ya that time you wanted to go <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> soon once i get my licence 
03-06-2004, 12:17 AM
Well done jazman - not a bad flattie............ive seen bigger - oh thats right, in SA!! HA HA HA!!
Nah, great fish, mate - maybe try luring for them - if you spot one cast the lure around - might get some takers.........
SA - the land of the bigger fish. The fish on the east, measure the least, but if you head west, you'll be bringing in the best!!
good point mr willy.
i wonder if you could spin for them in the dark? do you think they would come for it? maybe a big soft plastic would do the trick? cheers, glen
03-06-2004, 02:17 PM
Thought about this already, have spent 2 nights flicking big soft plastics around the shallows, without even a touch!
I'm thinking maybe bait fishing is the go......but despite all the missed fish, I think I still prefer floundering for the big crocs... Cheers Jaz <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' />
03-06-2004, 05:13 PM
Glen - i just thought with the spotty, you could see them, then flick the lure straight past them - maybe bait might be the way to go - perhaps strips of pillies or something.......
SA - the land of the bigger fish. The fish on the east, measure the least, but if you head west, you'll be bringing in the best!!
03-06-2004, 08:39 PM
Cheers HK <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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03-06-2004, 11:54 PM
ahh i c.. i've heard people mentioning it on another fishing forum..
cheers hunter
05-06-2004, 08:10 PM
Heh, no probs. I love flatties and release most that I catch. I have had situations where I release a perfectly pan sized flattie and people around me look at me with a "WTF?" look lol. They are my pets and release then whenever I catch one. I used to spear them but stopped <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> They are just too cool
OWNED.
07-06-2004, 11:10 AM
Did anyone take advantage of the awesome conditions (but COLD) over the weekend and go floundering?
I had to get up early sunday morning to go down to woolami for surf fishing or else saturday night would've had me wading the shallows with my light and spear <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' /> AK
07-06-2004, 02:07 PM
Thought very hard about it, but it was friggin cold, plus there was a big full moon (not so good for floundering).
I'll be back out in a week or so when the moon is less. Jaz
08-06-2004, 02:30 AM
howd you go up there aok?
i'm going to the island on the long weekend
08-06-2004, 04:58 PM
fished at the last car park where the woolami surf lifesaving club is. At low tide you could see a deep gutter about 5m from where the waves were breaking and the fish were lurking in there. Amongst 7 anglers i would say 40 fish were caught majority 500gms but a few 1kg fish thrown in as well. Baits used were squid/pipi/bluebait.
cheers AK
08-06-2004, 07:36 PM
Nice work AK, I haven't opened my surf fishing account yet this winter, but 2 mates caught about 15 salmon at Venus Bay last weekend. All 500g or smaller.
Do you use those surf poppers? I find that I get ALL my biggest salmon on them. I fish them on the top of a 2 hook paternoster rig, with whitebait on the bottom. Cheers JAz
08-06-2004, 07:51 PM
Heading down to my surf beach (salt creek) for my first shot at winter salmon on July 9.
As for the weekend - tried on the Murray at Wellington and got our first legal callop for 4 months - only 41cm, but its well over legal!!
SA - the land of the bigger fish. The fish on the east, measure the least, but if you head west, you'll be bringing in the best!!
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