Well, having a look at my past photos on my computer, i saw that begining of September was when I started to catch some flathead last year. With that in mind, i decided to go for a quick flattie bash this afternoon - with no expectations at all.
I got to my favorite flathead spot, just down from the Canning Bridge, along the freeway, and realised that if Perth was chocolate coloured, then this spot wouldn't be that much better. It wasn't. I had about 40-50cm of visibility before it just went brown. Oh well.
Decided to flick out a couple of lures anyway and discovered plenty of blowies hanging around, doing their best to destroy my snapbacks. Within two casts they had succeeded in destroying the first. Bugger. So i switched to an Ecogear VX-40, which proceded to collect the weed, if it wasnt jagging a blowie. Well I was almost ready to pack it in when i noticed a puff of sand in the shallows and was suprised to see a 40cm+ flathead cruising away!! I switched to a Baby Vibe 43 and cast after her, but no luck. However a bit further down i did manage to catch a 39cm flathead! Yay! As I wasn't actually expecting to catch anything, I was just using my 4lb bream outfit, with 4lb Nitlon leader. the flathead managed to bite through the leader, just as i got it onto the shore. It actually fell back in the water, but i managed to flick it onto the sand with my foot - i wanted the lure back lol.
That was the only capture for the afternoon, the wind picked up straight after, so decided to call it quits 20min after. However I'm still very happy with it, and will be visiting the spot frequently from now on I expect!!