Best flattie ever to date.

G' Folks

The Basin and the Bay continue to fire this week. I actually took some time out with the family this week and we gave Cropper's Cottages at Sussex Inlet a bit of a test run, needless to say we've booked our place for next year. The cottages are one of those unpretentious south  coast gems that take you back to a time where everything was simple and uncomplicated, a place to just sit and relax and fish! Yeah fish. It's got everything covered, beach, rock offshore and estuary. I managed my best flattie ever to date, not the biggest but definately the best. This fish was sight cast up the river in knee deep water 2m off the bank. Using 10lb braid with 20lb leader and a Rapala Shad Rap, repeated casts were put in in the troughs in the sand because I knew there just had to be one there. I saw the lure disappear and then the fish stuck it's head up then the whole body just materialized out of the sand and hovered for a few seconds before the first blistering run. We'd be picking off good fish for the pan all week on bream gear but this fish was in a class of it's own and there's no way I would have stopped on 4lb bream gear in the current. After a few quick pics she was released and swam off nicely to breed another day. Enjoy.