My 1st fish on SP's

[big al]

I am on holidays at the moment so I decided to try some soft plastics at the Brissy river up past kooka park (where Bommie has been getting some flatties) for a couple of hours. I have only really used hard bodies and do alright but havn't seriously tried sp's.

After about 1/2 hour and only getting a few strikes I left bommie and walked downstream 50 metres found a opening amongst the trees but had to cast from up on the bank (about 2 metres above the water level) out over two weed banks into about waist deep water. As soon as the sp hit the bottom bang it was on my first fish on sp, and once that familar head shake I realized it was a flathead.

Now the problem was how to get it over the weed banks and up on the bank without no net and taken my shoes off and getting my feet wet,

so I yelled out to bommie who had already been in the water and he managed to climb down the bank into the shallows and then grab it by the mouth and climb back up Cheers for that. It went about 60-65cm in length by guessing. Anyway here is the photos. [img size=374]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/IMG_2075_AFO.jpg

[big al]

on the bank [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/IMG_2076_AFO.jpg

[big al]

ah [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/IMG_2077_AFO.jpg

[faulked]

nice fish mate what a way to start on plastics bet your hooked now:laugh:

[username_taken]

nice flatty! Is that upstream or downstream from Kooka park ?

[maxi]

congrats mate...welcome to the dark side !!!!

nice dark fish there..was the water tannin coloured ??

[buzzid]

thats a nice fish al. i guess like me, you're going to start building the worlds largest collection of soft plastic. well done mate.

buzz

[STU]

Sweet flatty mate gotta love plastics

[big al]

username_taken wrote:

nice flatty! Is that upstream or downstream from Kooka park ?

upstream from kooka

[big al]

maxi wrote:

congrats mate...welcome to the dark side !!!!

nice dark fish there..was the water tannin coloured ??

Thanks, it was brown like at kooka park, it was at half tide running out, the fish was extra fat

[big al]

buzzid wrote:

thats a nice fish al. i guess like me, you're going to start building the worlds largest collection of soft plastic. well done mate.

buzz

cheers, yeh more expenses

[chubbstar]

:woohoo: Very nice flathead mate, well done. A top way to break in the SP's.

Jayson

[Cowfish13]

Great first fish on soft plastics. Top stuff

My first fish on SP's was only a Pike:( and I only got it last year:D. But I did manage 50 or so in that one day:woohoo:

Probably why I usually use Hard bodies. My first fish on them was ages ago (7 years+) and was either a Bass or Estaury Cod. Can't remember what came first.

[big al]

big al wrote:

maxi wrote:

congrats mate...welcome to the dark side !!!!

nice dark fish there..was the water tannin coloured ??

Thanks, it was brown like at kooka park, it was at half tide running out, the fish was extra fat

[big al]

big al wrote:

big al wrote:

maxi wrote:

congrats mate...welcome to the dark side !!!!

nice dark fish there..was the water tannin coloured ??

Thanks, it was brown like at kooka park, it was at half tide running out, the fish was extra fat

this is the water we were fishing only about waist deep in the middle at half tide caught the flattie just on the edge of the second weed bank [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/IMG_2078_AFO.jpg

[big al]

chubbstar wrote:

:woohoo: Very nice flathead mate, well done. A top way to break in the SP's.

Jayson

thanks mate also I forgot to mention I caught it on a 4\" minnow (smelt)and it was released as they seem to have a muddy taste this far up the river

[Phase3]

Great lizard mate, well done! :cheer:

[flathead]

Great slug mate great size for a first try:)

[big al]

also there was a small bullie working a school of small mullet (tail breaking the surface as it chomped at the mullet) just before we left

[MichaelJ]

congrats on the flattie an awesome first

[big al]

whatnow wrote:

congrats on the flattie an awesome first

Thanks young fella, not as big as your last one though:unsure:

[MichaelJ]

big al wrote:

whatnow wrote:

congrats on the flattie an awesome first

Thanks young fella, not as big as your last one though:unsure:

which was no way near as big as your pb lol that was huge!

[big al]

got to break the 1 metre mark now:laugh:

[pinkey]

do it in the brissy river and ill give you a buck .

Nice flattie btw much bigger than my biggest.

[Angus]

Well done mate.

Its great looking country up that way. I really must get back there more over summer.

Angus

[big al]

Angus wrote:

Well done mate.

Its great looking country up that way. I really must get back there more over summer.

Angus

Thanks Angus, there's no fresh water coming down so there is alot of saltwater pushing upstream

[Oztrav]

that area looks extra fishy