Botany Bay-tues 8th Dec, “That’s no flattie; that there’s a croc!” Options

[Seafairy]

Nothing like an early start to the day – alarm set for 4am. (Takes us a little time to wake up at that hour). Down to the boat ramp and in the water by 6:15 am. I’ll have to work on the delay between alarm and ‘on water’ time!

Can’t pack the Esky the night before because the beer will start to get warm and the sandwiches soggy!

Anyway down the river to the bay: dodging rowers that don’t have eyes in the back of their heads and insist on rowing either in the middle of the channel 3 abreast or crossing straight in front of you.

I am not good at explaining landmarks so FED took some pictures to show where we were. Pulled up due east of the Capt Cook Bridge, on the port marker side of the channel, in about 6 metres of water and almost opposite the 2nd starboard marker. Fished on the bottom of the tide.
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While I was still organising bait etc FED already had a line in the water with a soft plastic lure. Within 2 mins he had caught the first “croc” – and I thought he had hooked the bottom or something!

FED’s flattie was 69cms and it’s a monster! With that sort of a feed we could have pulled up stakes and gone home but there’s no fun in that. That was when I was told that we could only keep one flattie each over 70cms.

So not to be outdone I cast my ‘flattie flucker’ and up came the 2nd ‘croc’ (BIGGER than the 1st @ 74cms.). We christened him ‘Mr Cranky’ because he bit a hole in FED’s new net.
I was at the stage of hoping we didn’t catch another monster or it would have to go back. We did a couple of drifts in this area and decided to search for other species before calling it a day so we headed over to a deep hole north of the last port marker near the wave buoy. Low and behold FED pulled up another large flattie but this time not quite a ‘croc’.
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After drifting around for about an hour or so we decided that it was going to be rather warm later so we motored back up the Georges and were back at the ramp just after 11 am and in the pool to cool off by 12:15pm.
We hit 1000nm on this boat as we pulled up at the ramp.
Great day!

[Jumpus GooDarus]

Like I said peeps tend to do alot of Bullashitta these days in regards to tackle & lures

There's only wun thing ewe need to know about fishy's !

They dont have a brain, cant think all they know is that they have to eat.

Put any lure in their path [using the correct action] & they'll eat it.

Another thing just to shove it up all those lure guru's cakeholes

Fish are colour blind just like the octopussys so when ewe read the bullashitta sum people post in regards to lure colours ???

well make up your own mind

Fishy's do however see shades of colour & that explains why certain lure colours produce alot more than others on certain days, again the colour is determined by how much light is about.

On darker cloud covered days use darker coolours & brighter colours on the clear sunny days

Above is not just for estuary lure fushing either I've Mr Bean adopting the same principle when I'm out wide trolling for Marlins & YFT