Home Of the Big Bream

[Outsider1]

so dave... where do you live .

regards,
keechie

I would be surprised if you haven't fished it already Keechie!

I see plenty of Ausfishers regularly working their way up the canals past our place on the leccys casting lures around the pontoons. Plenty of big mullet live under and around the pontoons as well.

The big bream are pretty cagey, they did not get that size by luck! When I am of a mind, I have been know to "feed them up" for a week or two on bread and then on the right tide introduce a few bread baits in and around their haunts. Can be very explosive fishing!

It is amazing what lives in the canals. When we first moved here we lived in one of the original sections which had the oldest canals. I regularly saw huge GTs herding mullet and hunting in there. Tried to hook them but they were far too cagey. a lot of fun though as they "shouldered" the poppers I spun at them.

We even caught Mack Tuna off the pontoons! Would not have believed it if I had not seen it first hand a couple of times.

And there are plenty of big Jacks and Cod, plus some huge Pike eels in there too.

Cheers

Dave

[Keechie]

thats my plan when i am older buy a house on the canals feed the bream then have some fun. it sounds pretty awesome mach tuna off your own pontoon!!! sounds like a great area you live in i hope you enjoy it alot, good luck for the future.

regards,
keechie

[Outsider1]

thats my plan when i am older buy a house on the canals feed the bream then have some fun. it sounds pretty awesome mach tuna off your own pontoon!!! sounds like a great area you live in i hope you enjoy it alot, good luck for the future.

regards,
keechie

Sure do Keechie, never cease to marvel at this area and Morton Bay. We are so lucky.

Cheers

Dave

[gogetter]

shute harbour.... last year i got one 30cm and one 35cm..... was fun....

[_Dan_]

The biggest bream in Australia are noted by Steve Starling and I have been there my self years ago, it is about 1.5 north of Evans Head NSW you catch them off the beach they are like snapper they are that big.

Thats around the money mate, have seen 2,5 kilo plus fish caught in the areas north and south of there....

We had a morning and none went under 40cm

PS: on the canal front, i have seen with my eyes massive Parrot Fish, Huge GT's im talking close to the meter and other big lads in an area on the gold coast...

[sid_fishes]

forster, where my mum lives. around the racks when its not a holiday, some very big fish there

[BrettyJ]

Me and a mate fish the rocks on the north side of the Seaway in winter, last year he did 5 trips and caught 250 legal bream, obviously didn't keep all of them, but alot of the fish were 35+ cm. Unfortunately I only did one trip with him.

[Fatboy 1]

I chose Gladstone because I live in Gladstone

[ifishcq1]

The Fitzroy River and The Narrows down to Gladstone have easily the biggest bream I have ever seen and that includes one night in front of the old fish board at Caloundra where my old man landed 7 for a total of 21.5 lb cleaned (1975) in the days when Jumpingpin and Caloundras bluehole were the best spots Now days in the Fitzroy it is common to get horse bream that big or much bigger as soon as I work out how to get some photos inserted I will The biggest bream I have personally caught here was 48.5 cm but that is small compared to some of these snodgers others have weighed in

[ifishcq1]

Dale Arnold caught this pair of horses in the Fitzroy at Port Alma

[noosa_nipper]

Jurassic lakes used to be

took the words out of my mouth mate.

wonder why there not there anymore????

[mangomick]

At night off kirbies wall in the Burnett river in Bundy used to produce some snodgers.

[bluefin59]

There are some monsters around the charter boat pens at marina mirage , when they clean fish there they are in plague proportions but try catching them they are hell crafty ,if you leave from there for a charter throw a bit of toast or bread over the side and watch what happens ...matt

[skeeter]

i think you have a pretty good chance of getting big bream right along the QLD coast. I live in Rocky and have caught a few kilo units in the river within the city reaches. Its better and more reliable at coast (Yeppoon) though.
Still looking for that 2kilo specimen.
Peter

[ifishcq1]

i think you have a pretty good chance of getting big bream right along the QLD coast. I live in Rocky and have caught a few kilo units in the river within the city reaches. Its better and more reliable at coast (Yeppoon) though.
Still looking for that 2kilo specimen.
Peter

Hi Skeeter
the wharf next to the boat ramp at port alma is a special with yorkies or greenbacks use the same gear you would use for jacks and
don't use too big livies because of the big jewies and barras they are real hard to pull out of the structures