My last post on Scoutfisher was back in February last year. Life has been busy and I have been away for too long. Now that things are finally starting to settle down again, it ‘s nice to be getting back to some normal routines. I’ve managed to squeeze some fishing in but the sessions are shorter and less frequent than usual. Hopefully you guys have been getting out there wetting a line and having some success. This post is a bit of a summary of what I have been up to over the last 18 months.
In my time away, I have started a new job, had my second son, moved house and finally replaced my old workhorse-Samsung laptop which had served me so well for over a decade. I have been fishing in between but obviously nowhere near as much as I would have liked. Could you ever really say you have fished as much as you would have liked?
- Mackay GT
- Another Mackay GT
- Creek flats Mackay
- Harbour rockwall Nanni
- Very Longtom Moreton Bay
- Bakers Creek Bream
- Mackay Sooty Grunter
- Lure in finger trick
- Airlie Beach School Mackerel
- Pioneer River Queenfish
Fishing with the Young Fella
- Bribie Island Stonefish
- The best time to be fishing
- Redcliffe Tailor on soft plactics
- Birbie Island Grunter Bream
- Mackay Harbour Toe Nibbler
- Mackay Queenfish
- Queenfish from the bridge
Trip to Lucinda
- Lucinda Jetty GT on a spoon
- Lucinda Jetty Jewfish
- Lucinda Jetty Golden Trevally on a blade
- Blacktip Reef Shark
- Cardwell Blue Salmon
- Lucinda Coral Trout on a jig
Moreton Bay Longtail Tuna
- Moreton Bay Longtail Tuna
- Young fella catching a Bream
Lure Fishing with Taiyo for Flathead
- Bribie Island Flathead
- Bribie Island Flathead on shallow diver
- Plenty of Bribie Island Flathead
- Corio Bay Flathead
Hooking his First Flathead on Lure
Just as we were about to leave, we found another patch of fish. I hooked one and dropped it and told him to cast into the same area. He managed to get a decent cast in and his rod immediately started bouncing. I told him to wind quickly but the fish shook itself off and was gone. I then told him he had both hooked a fish and landed a fish which pretty much added up to catching his own fish. “How do you feel now?” I asked. He was not impressed with the stretch in logic and knew what he still needed to do. We cast a few more times for nothing before I called it for the day. I started walking us both back to the beach. Taiyo made one last cast behind and unbelievably he hooked up again.
He started yelling and winding it back in. I just kept walking toward the beach, towing the floaty, Taiyo and the fish with me. Taiyo wasn’t messing around and kept winding until the flathead was now up beside the floatie. “Stop winding” I told him but his adrenalin had kicked in and he couldn’t stop. The rod bent over as the 45cm fish started getting winched out the water. I was sure it was going to wriggle itself off as it dangled off his bent rod. I just kept power walking toward the beach.
Epic Landing of his First Flathead
Taiyo started screaming and I looked over my shoulder to see that Taiyo had lifted the lizard out of the water. It was flipping around over his head and began sliding down his back. As I pulled the inflatable ashore Taiyo was crying and then let out a particularly shrill scream. The flathead had managed to stop the slide down his back by lodging one of his gill spikes in Taiyos’ spine. Taiyo just screamed as it now flicked about suspended in mid-air from his back.
I reached over, lifted the fish out of my poor sons back and gently lay him on the ground so he could finally see it. Despite the trauma he had just experienced, his tears immediately stopped up and he began to smile with joy. He he had just caught his first Flathead on a lure. He was just 4 years old!! The back bruised then healed but the memory of him with his first legal Flathead on lure be with us for a long time.
- Taiyos first Flathead on Lure
Great fishing, Scource, love your pics, thank you!!!
Thanks Rob – It’s been a while – so I had a few pics stored up. Good to see you are still reading them. Cheers mate
Tim
fantastic read and pictures,reading from the uk