Bream, Salmon and Couta

[PlasticFantastic]

Just returned from a two week stay in Tassie seeing my father and as usual brought the rod and reel along. Without going into too much detail I fished from the north of the state at Devenport down the east coast and into Hobart and it surrounds. Bream was the main target I was hoping to get as the last few trips down drew no result on the Bream front but this time luck was on my side. I managed a couple of Bream in the mid 30's along the east coast and scored a few in the Derwent pushing over 40cm and about 1.5kg. I used a combo of bait or lures depending on the mood of the fish at the time. In between Bream fishing I managed a nice Aussie Salmon from the northern part of the state and a stinking great Couta as well which for it's size to land it on 8lb leader was a miracle (It's a 40cm ruler next to it). All in all a good trip and I think next trip will be targeting the freshwater scene for some Trout action.

PlasticFantastic

[ffejsmada]

Nice Couta mate, hope you didn't eat any of the Derwent fish from around the Hobart area.
You might start glowing green and your hair will fall out!


Jeff.

[ON-THE-CHEW]

They are some big black bream, good to see you finally get your target fish down there. Now you just need to get a 40cm bream up here.

Andrew

[robsue]

when i was a youngster wagging school i used to catch barracouta off the burnie wharf, though they were a lot fatter than the one in your pic, i used shark hooks and half a fish as bait
they were always milky/worms and i would gut them and sell them to the foreigners {we used a different word in my day} working on the wharves
i believe no-one is allowed on the wharves now, same as up here

[Jurkyjj]

Cracking effort.
Nice Fish!

Jason.