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Mark with a athead caught while trolling a ZerekTango Shad.
There are always squire around the southern More- ton Bay islands.
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Kyle with a legal 37cm squire. His rst sh Kyle’s athead was hooked on a Zerek on a soft plastic. Bulldog Crank while trolling.
Techniques and tips fWor flathead and squire
ELL, I sup- pose this is a happy new
Southern Moreton Bay
by SEAN CONLON
year and hopefully 2021 is going to be bet- ter than 2020, but we’ll just have to wait and see how it all goes.
catching a few fish for a photo, and releasing most to fight another day, with the odd one in the Esky for dinner.
an 8-12lb leader when casting – I like to have a 10-15lb leader when trolling.
At the time of writing, the weather was a bit all over the place.
So, I thought this month I’d run through a couple of the techniques and what type of gear we use for this – I’m asked regularly what type of lures, line and rods we use to target these fish.
When it comes to soft plastics, I prefer any type of curl tail or pad- dle tail lure.
But I was able to line up the odd charter and fishing tuition with the occasional small weath- er window, and on the right day the fishing was fairly good.
Colour-wise, the rule of thumb is darker col- ours in dirty water and nice bright colours in nice clean clear water.
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That’s not to say there weren’t a few days the fish just didn’t play the game – but that’s fish- ing.
First, we’ll go with the old flathead.
Jig head size is go- ing to depend on what depth you’re at or how much tidal flow you’re fishing in, but I find an- ything from a 1/8-1/4oz is fine and pair it with a 3/0 heavy duty Mustad hook.
The predominant fish were definitely squire and flathead – they’ve been in reasonable numbers around the southern Moreton Bay islands and in expected areas for this time of year.
The rod and reel setup I prefer for this type of fishing is a 2-4kg or 4-8lb rod with a medi- um action, paired with a 2000 or 2500 spin reel.
Next thing is where to fish for flatties.
I’ve had a couple of anglers come out and do their fishing tuition on these particular spe- cies.
Now, we want to spoil that reel with ei- ther 6-8lb braid and
Work around the man- grove line – the bait will be hiding up in the mangroves and the flat- head will be lingering on the outside, waiting
They’ve done quite well – learning a lot and
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I find the Wilson Fish- ing Blade N Tails 4-8lb medium-action rod and ATC Virtuous 2000 reel are a very good match for this style of fishing – you’re able to troll and cast with one outfit quite well.
One of the easiest starting points is around mangroves on high tide.
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