Food is a driver for all species and it’s important that the flat offers food that is relevant to your target species. When fishing flats, the key is to find flats that are desirable to your target species, based on what is important to them, be it shelter in the form of weed, timber or rubble, water movement or eddies, ambush points, proximity to deep water or available food. The desired depth will vary depending on your location and target species, with this being my favoured depth range for a stack of species, from whiting, bream, flathead, and grunter, to more exotic flats visitors such as snapper, trevally and queenfish. When fishing flats I generally look for large expanses with a water depth of around half a metre, to one and a half metres of water. ![]() The term flats refers to areas of similar depth that cover a reasonable area and are generally referred to as high tide flats, areas that are covered by water on the higher stages of the tide and often dry on low tide, and low tide flats that refer to areas that have our desired depth of water on them during the lower stages of the tide. Let’s breakdown what we look for on the flats, along with gear and techniques that get the bites. Wherever you are in the country, I’m sure you have some local high or low tide flats that the fish move onto to feed at different stages of the tide. In my neck of the woods summer can mean numbers of whiting, bream, grunter, and flathead, along with trevally, queenfish and other species that move into the system following gar, mullet, and other bait schools. Fishing the flats during summer allows you to cover plenty of water and encounter a wide range of species as you drift or move around the flats with the electric motor.
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