Half moon bay

Black Rock, Beaumaris, Half Moon Bay, Mordialloc, Parkdale
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Half moon bay

Post by wem21 » Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:42 pm

Hi guys!
Before school this morning I went wading on the beach at half moon bay for flathead. There was another guy there as well, and we had a good conversation about all things fishing. I managed to catch doughnuts, while this guy was pulling up flathead after flathead. I reckon he pulled up at least four in an hour. We were using pretty much the same everything, with the same plastic but in different colours. We were both doing the double flick, sink and pause, with a 1/6th jighead on a zman minnow. So is this just pure dumb luck, or is there something hidden behind the scenes?
Also had a few plastics which had slipped down the jig head, which I suspect were flatties. How do you tell if a flattie has taken your lure?
Cheers

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Re: Half moon bay

Post by 4liters » Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:17 pm

He was probably better at aiming for structure like weed edges and dropoffs
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Re: Half moon bay

Post by bowl » Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:28 pm

Technique , experience thing...

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Re: Half moon bay

Post by smile0784 » Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:33 pm

Different colour jig

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Re: Half moon bay

Post by Lightningx » Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:58 pm

Maybe wasn’t your day

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Re: Half moon bay

Post by wem21 » Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:08 pm

How do you know if a flattie has taken your lure?

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Re: Half moon bay

Post by dazz999 » Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:14 pm

wem21 wrote:Hi guys!
Before school this morning I went wading on the beach at half moon bay for flathead. There was another guy there as well, and we had a good conversation about all things fishing. I managed to catch doughnuts, while this guy was pulling up flathead after flathead. I reckon he pulled up at least four in an hour. We were using pretty much the same everything, with the same plastic but in different colours. We were both doing the double flick, sink and pause, with a 1/6th jighead on a zman minnow. So is this just pure dumb luck, or is there something hidden behind the scenes?
Also had a few plastics which had slipped down the jig head, which I suspect were flatties. How do you tell if a flattie has taken your lure?
Cheers
if his name was Justine it wasnt luck

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Re: Half moon bay

Post by dazz999 » Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:21 pm

wem21 wrote:How do you know if a flattie has taken your lure?
flatties normally hit the plastic hard small pinkys are normally tap tap on your plastic and just pants it (pull the plastic down the jighead)you can stop that by a drop of superglue on the jighead before you put the softplastic on i dont bother doing that

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Re: Half moon bay

Post by wem21 » Mon Feb 26, 2018 7:03 pm

dazz999 wrote:
wem21 wrote:How do you know if a flattie has taken your lure?
flatties normally hit the plastic hard small pinkys are normally tap tap on your plastic and just pants it (pull the plastic down the jighead)you can stop that by a drop of superglue on the jighead before you put the softplastic on i dont bother doing that
So if a flattie takes it yu should feel a big tap, or see the line twitch?

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Re: Half moon bay

Post by dazz999 » Mon Feb 26, 2018 7:22 pm

wem21 wrote:
dazz999 wrote:
wem21 wrote:How do you know if a flattie has taken your lure?
flatties normally hit the plastic hard small pinkys are normally tap tap on your plastic and just pants it (pull the plastic down the jighead)you can stop that by a drop of superglue on the jighead before you put the softplastic on i dont bother doing that
So if a flattie takes it yu should feel a big tap, or see the line twitch?
as with any fish watch your line

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