Ben Monro landed a solid flathead jigging a Pro Lure Clone Prawn.
Ryan Holdsworth managed a lovely mangrove jack recently.
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Luke Stratford caught a decent flathead casting a soft plastic over the flats.
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ARCH is normally an excellent month to chase fish and crustaceans around Brisbane. Mud crabs were well and truly on the move towards the end of January, and there were also plenty of smaller prawns getting around, which meant things were looking good for the coming weeks. Then the rain turned up and dumped 300mm overnight around the north Brisbane area. The Pine and Caboolture rivers were hit very hard – it will take some time for them to clear enough for crabs, prawns and fish to move back in. Flathead were around in good numbers too before the rain hit. We were getting anywhere between 10-30 flatties in a session, with good fish over 60cm among them. At the time of writing, I guess these fish are now somewhere closer to Moreton Island! Hopefully they come back once the clean-
Local Luring by KEITH STRATFORD
er water starts to push back into the rivers. It could take a good couple of weeks for any salty water to start pushing back in, so by the time the March issue hits the shelves it should be fishable, as long as we don’t receive any more rain between now and then. I like fishing the dirty water – it concentrates the fish to an area that has some salt and they tend to bite better. Trying different lures and colours can make a big difference in any situation, though it’s
essential when fishing murky water. My friend Benny was fishing for flatties before the rain flushed them out. He was getting a few fish on the new white-coloured Pro Lure Clone Prawn, but the fish weren’t biting very well, with a few missed fish from it. He swapped over to the chartreuse-coloured Pro Lure Clone Prawn and the fish instantly started belting it and better-quality fish started coming aboard. * continued P13
The chartreuse Pro Lure Clone Prawn works very well in discoloured water.
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