Went out with my mate Greg for a bream session yesterday morning.
Mission: Emulate the Chief with some bream, flatties, cod on the hard bodies.
Brief: Bring a rod for shallow cranks for the early high tide and one for throwing deep with D40F baby cranks. Concentrating on areas up towards the bridge and Colmslie rock walls.
Results: Hit up a favourite flat of mine just after sunrise and i could see it was stacked with bait and the occasional bust up it looked promising. Greg started throwing a Pygmy and i was having a test run with a Stiffy Fat One.
We were getting a few hits and we maybe had a decent bream each, when i got a huge hit and after a few surging runs into the net goes my new pb river bream at 32cm fork length. I was getting line share of hits so Greg put on a CK40 to match what i was throwing and he was getting hits every 2nd cast but not hooking up.
I had retrofitted my lure with double hooks and was converting every hit to a fish with the ultrafine hooks pinning them under the chin almost every time. THe no 10 or 12 owners on the CK were not hooking up until a 28cm bream smashed the lure and Greg now had a decent fish too.
After doing a couple of other shallow banks, we put on the deep cranks and hit up some rock walls in between wharves looking for a cod. The pesky bream kept at us though and we got another half a dozen quality fish, we both fished D40f's (in diff colurs) and once again i was getting more hook ups with the double hooks.
Last spot we fished I cast in tight to the rocks, before i flipped the bail over my MRS calls on the mobile, i put it on speaker and then started my retrieve, got absolutely hammered and pulled out a decent bream, fought it, netted it then i picked up the phone and tried to explain why i dropped out of the conversation.........Greg puts in a cast parallel to the wall and after a few cranks gets smashed!!! I say "hold on Teresa greg is on to a huge fish here".
He was able to get what would have been a massive cod out from the wall but it ran him with awesome power out the back of the boat and as it dropped down over a ledge into deeper water the leader was shredded on rocks!! If i had have been on the job with the leccy we would have got him. Greg was devastated and so was I! :cry:
We happily settled for a dozen or so good bream, and a few undersize though. Quality was excellent as most were legal rather than the odd good one. I know there are bigger fish on offer in the river but i just love catching bream on light gear and hb's!! (The squire outfit never got wet) All released, i prefer flatfish and cod on the plate.
Mick.
PS. The really good fish was early on just after the fog, before i got the sunnies, hat and sunscreen on. That's why it looks like a just got out of bed pic. That cruise ship in dry dock at Colmslie is an awesome sight as it towers over the river banks too!
Dam mate bad luck about the cod, there are a few good sized EC s in the river and they can be a challenge on the bream gear. Nice effort on the breambos. Sounds like a great time . there's something about the bream in that area ,they seem to nip the lures persistently. grreat effort and I know what you mean I love the challenge of a river bream on HBs Cheers and congrats on the PB
Better losing a few lures to fish than snags i spose. Thanks for the tips, i'm fishing closer and closer to nasty structure and getting better quality fish and more bycatch.
Who dares wins but it can get a little expensive! :undecided:
Isn't it the way, You can put that cast into a nasty spot and you just know it will be smacked Myself and callop were throwing HBs at few weeks ago when I hit a snag. I loaded the rod and flicked the line to free it and it was amazing to feel it come free and smacked in the one moment by a flathead . Just goes to show where fish hold, right in the nasty stuff
Nice effort there Mick, thats the key though get up and close to those rock walls to pull the fish off, I am the same Mick everytime I pick up the phone.... bannggg.... miss that fish... LoL tight lines!
Myself and callop were throwing HBs at few weeks ago when I hit a snag. I loaded the rod and flicked the line to free it and it was amazing to feel it come free and smacked in the one moment by a flathead . Just goes to show where fish hold, right in the nasty stuff
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