Scalem
13-06-2006, 08:21 PM
Hi All,
Occasionally it's nice to get an invite from another boater to spend time learning another dimension to fishing, which is what happened to me on Monday (public) holiday.
I was sitting at home pondering whether I should make a start on sanding back a repaired bung hole on my boat where water has been leaking in, or whether to join my 3 girls (wife and 2 kids) going shopping for new clothes, when the phone rang. The question was "what are you doing, and are you interested in joining me down the Nerang river canals to learn a bit about chasing bream around pontoons??" ::)
Given my choices as mentioned above, what do you think my answer was?? :-? :-?
The person asking me has become a great supplier of all manner of soft plastics, and he lives two streets away from me which has been fantastic. Besides the convenience for me, he is a top bloke willing to share his knowledge of fishing, in this case, for bream on soft plastics and hard body lures. Some of you will know him, but I can't advertise more than tell you his name is Kevin.
To the Nerang we went, launching from a well protected Budds beach from the prevailing SW or whatever direction it was coming from, but the fan was certainly blowing at full blast, which would have made it impossible for me in my boat, but I don't have an electric minkota! :D
The day could have been summed up as a shocker! We could not see many bream, which I am told is rarely the case, so we elected to have a soft plastic allowed to sink to the bottom, and Kevin working his favourite Ecogear SX40 hard body around the pontoons.
For a lot of the time my accuracy when casting certainly needed some improving, and I kept getting what is known as "wind knot." Sometimes I would cast, then think "what the!!" went wrong?? >:( Then I look down on the spool of the threadline to find an amazing mess of braid looking like a birds nest. Sorry Kevin, it was a waste of time helping me unravel it, but it was very difficult in windy conditions. Apparently, because the braid was new, didn't help matters either.
So after much coaching with this very foreign method of fishing for me, where I am used to casting soft plastics in any direction for snapper in the bay, my accuracy started to improve.
I lined up with a great looking pontoon as we approached, and splashed the plastic bass minnow so close to it, you could see the splash up the side of the rubber. As I turned to Kevin saying, "how's that for a cast" the line went tight, and in came my 1st legal bream on a plastic. Yep, the cast was right on the money, and all of the theory that I have read and Kevin taught me on the morning came to good. We didn't measure it, but estimates were about 28cm, and he is back there someplace to be caught again.
Pitty my boat isn't suited to mounting an electric motor like Kevins 4.5mtr sportfisher, but maybe I can get a few more trips in the future.
Scalem
Occasionally it's nice to get an invite from another boater to spend time learning another dimension to fishing, which is what happened to me on Monday (public) holiday.
I was sitting at home pondering whether I should make a start on sanding back a repaired bung hole on my boat where water has been leaking in, or whether to join my 3 girls (wife and 2 kids) going shopping for new clothes, when the phone rang. The question was "what are you doing, and are you interested in joining me down the Nerang river canals to learn a bit about chasing bream around pontoons??" ::)
Given my choices as mentioned above, what do you think my answer was?? :-? :-?
The person asking me has become a great supplier of all manner of soft plastics, and he lives two streets away from me which has been fantastic. Besides the convenience for me, he is a top bloke willing to share his knowledge of fishing, in this case, for bream on soft plastics and hard body lures. Some of you will know him, but I can't advertise more than tell you his name is Kevin.
To the Nerang we went, launching from a well protected Budds beach from the prevailing SW or whatever direction it was coming from, but the fan was certainly blowing at full blast, which would have made it impossible for me in my boat, but I don't have an electric minkota! :D
The day could have been summed up as a shocker! We could not see many bream, which I am told is rarely the case, so we elected to have a soft plastic allowed to sink to the bottom, and Kevin working his favourite Ecogear SX40 hard body around the pontoons.
For a lot of the time my accuracy when casting certainly needed some improving, and I kept getting what is known as "wind knot." Sometimes I would cast, then think "what the!!" went wrong?? >:( Then I look down on the spool of the threadline to find an amazing mess of braid looking like a birds nest. Sorry Kevin, it was a waste of time helping me unravel it, but it was very difficult in windy conditions. Apparently, because the braid was new, didn't help matters either.
So after much coaching with this very foreign method of fishing for me, where I am used to casting soft plastics in any direction for snapper in the bay, my accuracy started to improve.
I lined up with a great looking pontoon as we approached, and splashed the plastic bass minnow so close to it, you could see the splash up the side of the rubber. As I turned to Kevin saying, "how's that for a cast" the line went tight, and in came my 1st legal bream on a plastic. Yep, the cast was right on the money, and all of the theory that I have read and Kevin taught me on the morning came to good. We didn't measure it, but estimates were about 28cm, and he is back there someplace to be caught again.
Pitty my boat isn't suited to mounting an electric motor like Kevins 4.5mtr sportfisher, but maybe I can get a few more trips in the future.
Scalem