The Elusive Flathead

some 40 odd cm duskies

Wether you are trying to catch lizard on live bait or soft plastics the one thing you must have is a heavy leader as flathead live on the bottom of the water with the snags and rocks and various other structures. When chasing flathead on lures you cant beat a 3-4 inch curl tailed grub in more vibrant colours like pink, fluro greens and yellows work well too. The grub can be matched to a 1/16 ounce (roughly 2 gram) jighead head with a size one or two hook. When using bait small whiting hooked through the lower jaw will work extremely well and little mullet hooked through the tail will also send you drag spinning. brightly coloured shallow diving minnows and jerk shads are also magic on dusky and sand flathead, just match the water depth with the diving size so you can get the hard body lure as close to the bottom as possible. Flathead should be targeted on half tides and leading out from a high tide. the flatties will normally rest in the small channels on the flats or in the drop offs just before them, on low tide it pays to walk around the flats and see all the sink holes from where they were resting. if you have any queries about flathead or any other fish feal free to email me at clay94_fishing@live.com.au

pesky little catches on bait can annoy
you when you have a specific fish in mind