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Summer has red up the trevally in the river as evidenced with Sean’s score.
Flat out fishing for flathead
Wn Whiting on surface lures
Ballina Bait & Tackle
by BRETT HYDE
Scott with a 97cm cracker caught while trolling. The sh was released.
ELL, first of all I would like
to say happy new year to all of you.
After such a turbu- lent 2020 for all of us, let’s keep our fingers crossed that 2021 is a little more ‘normal’ and we can get plenty of fishing done.
ple of great fish caught already.
I’m looking forward to a great year ahead.
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A real mix of tech- niques have worked over the past couple of months – it comes back to how you’d like to target the fish.
I hope you have all
had a safe and happy
holiday period, and I’m
ACKLE
sure your loved ones
spoilt you at Christmas.
At least summer has been a little more typi- cal, with warm weather and a few storms so far this season.
The warm weather has fired up a few of the usual species and I do think we are in for a cracker of a season, if we don’t get floods.
We’ve had quality models taking live bait being drifted slowly along the rock walls and also along the sand flat drop-offs.
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For now, flathead have been kicking along very nicely, with a cou-
The majority of the plastics have been * continued P43 www.bnbfishing.com.au
As we all know, summer on the North Coast is well known for flooding, so don’t be surprised if there’s one in the next few months.
We’ve also had plen- ty of fish grabbing soft plastics in the 70- 100mm range, as per normal.
Colour choice has been all over the place, with light conditions being the deciding fac- tor on most days.