More S.P off the beach

[stonecold]

Weather was just top good to be working yesterday arv. I finished up early and headed up the beach at Evans Head. As I drove onto the beach It seemed quite a few others had the same thoughts...not to worry I'll find a spot. Headed up past salty lakes top the coffee rock and found 3 truck loads of beach fishos soaking a bait.

I drove a little way past..maybe a 100m and found a couple of shallow gutters right in on the beach. Waves washing over the sandbank into a rocky gutter. Plenty of white water and a bit of depth..perfect.

I jumped out of the ute jumped into the waders (great investment for winter beach fishing!), grabed the rod threaded a camo 4"swimming mullet on the 1/4oz jighead and started towards where the gutter met the beach. I looked back at the nearest pair of bait fishos and I'm sure I saw him shake his head. Duno if it was the 7ft "beach rod" my waders or where I was going to try and fish....bugger it I'l throw it from here...still 15m away from my chosen spot.

Well the lure had barely hit the drink when a tap was registered..bang I was on...still only half way down the beach..I looked back around at my neighbors...they were pretending not to look at what was going on.;D Shortly after a fiesty...fat 35ish cm bream hit the beach.

After a quick Pic he was despatched into the bag 4 dinner.

After the 3rd fat bream I looked around to see old mate pulling his hat down over his eyes..and after the 5th he and his mate were sitting up at the nissan on the bait bucket arms folded!

An hour and 20 minutes and I had 5 bream in the bag all over 30cm. Let 2 littlies go and was monstered by an obviously larger critter.

My mates in the nissan seemed happy enough when I drove back past ...they waived but I new what was going through their heads...thats exactly why i dont use bait off the beach anymore!

[whiting-wizard]

Awesome report mate,
Some nice fish there aswell;D

[FISHAWN]

good work mate, nothing beats the feeling of outfishing old bait fisho sceptics.

[liltuffy]

Heading over to Moreton next weekend for as week of surf fishing. Might have to get me some of them camo thingo's.

Well done

Craig

[Mullet Musketeer]

I could not agree more - plastics are the way to goin the surf - give the Gulp Jigging Grub a go the tail drives the fish nuts in the surf.

[Awesome]

Great report. Thats gold!

[stonecold]

Thanx men...Craig most of the S.P will catch fish in the surf..particularly lizzards. Its not so much which S.P you use but more where you throw it. Once you have that sussed, and it takes a while, your set.

[MeePee_99]

gotta love the sp's in the surf.
Great Stuff!!!!!!!!!!

[nuggstar]

cool post stonecold. have you tryed the gulp sand worms for them beach bream. i no the power minnows work well in the surf but iv never tryed the swimming mullets. i will give it a crack next time. top work dude.

[stonecold]

Nugget I've got a sneaking suspicion that it wont matter what you chuck at them some days. Ive got some worms but I tend to get stuck in a groove and dont try anything new till what Im doings not working. At this stage I haven't had the need to try em out....will try and break away next week and have a crack at em.

Cheers

[rc@hinze]

Thanks for the report and inspiration Stonecold. Gave it a go myself and scored my first bream on softplastics on 2 quick outings. cheers Richard

[stonecold]

Good onya Richard. Be warned though its addictive..

[Scalem]

Thanx men...Craig most of the S.P will catch fish in the surf..particularly lizzards. Its not so much which S.P you use but more where you throw it. Once you have that sussed, and it takes a while, your set.

Ummn... pardon my ignorance, I'm a boaty placcie convert right down to my toes, but I can't think of anywhere else to throw a placcie but due east of where I am standing at the surfs' edge. Can you explain? Aim for dropoffs if you can see a distinct edge to a gutter? Is that what you mean? Up current if there is an obvious sweep/ rip?

Thanks

Scalem

[stonecold]

G'day Scalem...yes mate thats how I started...throwing them due East...without a lot of success. After a quite few trips and alot of prospecting casts a definite pattern emerged. If you do a search on soft plastics off the beach you should find a couple of my threads on the subject in this forum, one in particular with a rough mud map of a surf gutter/spit and where you will find the fish sitting. General rule of thumb is if you can find a gutter close to shore with a some wave action washing across the top, thats a good place to start. If it contains some rock your chances of pulling a few fish have increased dramatically. At times the depth is of little concern as I've pulled fish out of pot holes barely more than 30cm deep.