What Do You Target and Whats Your Rig

[URAGANGI]

Just one example.... I'll fish for bream under the motorway bridge using Squidgee soft plastic jigs baited with fresh herring fillets. The little wire on these jig heads that usually holds the plastic, holds the fresh bait. I'll cast it up current and work it back the same as a plastic past the pylons as it drops. This works better than plastics and better than traditional bait methods. Catches are usuall XOS Bream with by catches of Tailor, Trevors, Queenies, and skool Jew.

It's out now.... FISH FRESH BAIT THE SAME WAY YOU FISH PLASTICS, AND YOU'LL BAG OUT ON XOS FISH EVERY TIME.

Clever tackle, very clever. I'm keen to adopt your method. This would be a brilliant flathead bait. What would your action be for retreaval.? Fast/slow or with a whip come bump motion.?
cheers
Gav.

[kind_cir]

Clever tackle, very clever. I'm keen to adopt your method. This would be a brilliant flathead bait. What would your action be for retreaval.? Fast/slow or with a whip come bump motion.?
cheers
Gav.

Bream from motorway brige pylons [ Maroochy river and bribie bridge ect ] : Cast up current from pylon, and let it sink as it passes the pylons and give it a twitch here and there. Best to use braid too and cork grip rod for extra feel. Keep a slight bow in the line and follow with rod tip as it passes by you.
When you can no longer follow with rod tip let the line tighten for a sec or two twitch a bit and open the bail arm. The line will slacken and bait will sink. As it passes the pylons let it go out till the end of the eddy in the water and then retrive twitching and pausing during the retrieve.

As for flathead , where flathead lurk. I'll let it float by weed edge where that edge drops into deeper water, and esp on the first of the run out. Weed can be in as little as 1 foot of water. Or an any flattie spot.... Cast and retrieve slow to medium pace [about as fast as the current run] When retrieving lift rod tip in a steady fasion to lift up from bottom,.. let it sink and then pause for about 4 sec. repeat 4-6 times on the way back to boat. Flatie will follow and nail it usually when you lift the rod and the bait off the bottom. If flattie nails it, give slack line, count to six and lean back and hang on for the ride.

[nigelr]

Targetting estuary bream, 2/0 circe hook with mullet/tailor strip or butterflied herring. I've seen chicken bits and pieces work very well but haven't used it myself.
Fish as light as possible, I like to use good quality 4kg mono with a 1 metre 6-7kg trace below the smallest effective swivel, smallest (or no) ball sinker right on the hook. Bail open, let them feel nothing when they take the bait and run. Throw the bail arm after a few secs and with circles they will hook themselves. Bear in mind I'm fishing only for the table.
Dark of the moon, first 2 hours of the run out from the spring highs this month and June. Dusk, dawn and after dark, enjoy!

[URAGANGI]

Bream from motorway brige pylons [ Maroochy river and bribie bridge ect ] : Cast up current from pylon, and let it sink as it passes the pylons and give it a twitch here and there. Best to use braid too and cork grip rod for extra feel. Keep a slight bow in the line and follow with rod tip as it passes by you.
When you can no longer follow with rod tip let the line tighten for a sec or two twitch a bit and open the bail arm. The line will slacken and bait will sink. As it passes the pylons let it go out till the end of the eddy in the water and then retrive twitching and pausing during the retrieve.

As for flathead , where flathead lurk. I'll let it float by weed edge where that edge drops into deeper water, and esp on the first of the run out. Weed can be in as little as 1 foot of water. Or an any flattie spot.... Cast and retrieve slow to medium pace [about as fast as the current run] When retrieving lift rod tip in a steady fasion to lift up from bottom,.. let it sink and then pause for about 4 sec. repeat 4-6 times on the way back to boat. Flatie will follow and nail it usually when you lift the rod and the bait off the bottom. If flattie nails it, give slack line, count to six and lean back and hang on for the ride.

Thanks again for your time and the detail that you've mentioned. Sunday looks good wind wise. Time for the cast net to go for a swim and snair some live bait. The best part of fishing is mastering new tricks. Let's see what turns up.
Cheers
Gav.

[castlemaine]

When I first starting fishing for snapper in the Bay, I used 2 hook rigs every conceivable way, you know ... snooded rigs, swivel between hooks, etc.

After losing a fair bit of gear and missing out on fish at hot-bite period due to re-rigging, I've gone back to a more conventional rig of single hook, either running sinker rig or sinker on hook in snag prone areas.

2/0 hooks if I anticipate a by catch of Bream or Grassie. Otherwise 4/0-6/0 circles.

Cheers

[stack]

Gunna I target trevally a lot in the estuaries on hard bodies,so I`ll normally start on the surface for a while with stickbaits and if that does no good I`ll switch to small cranks and a fast retrieve.If that does no good i still run the same lattlle cranks but change the retrieve and target the Bream and whatever bycatch i an get to keep the nasty donut away.

[nathank]

4/0 hoodlum hook, 30lb flouro trace of 40cms to a black swivel.. 8kg to 15kg braid (depending on spot) with a sinker just enough to pin a 12 to 15cm live mullet to the bottom near structure......................and patience.

[winfurn]

i use 2x 4/0 penatraitors on 60lb flurocarbon leader live baiting with herring or prawns
I chase jacks but got sick of big trevs and big big tailor biting me of also by catches of whiting a bit of over kill with leader though all in 2ft water at night on sunny coast

[Cheech]

Thanks for the Thread Gunna. I have something new to try. When I chase Bream it is usually in the shallows so no sinker. Just a hook. I usually use baitholder hooks, but will give the small circles a try this winter. Thanks Nigel.

[Damned67]

Good idea for a thread.

I tend to target Snapper and Sweetlip in the bay.
For Snapper I tend to use either a paternoster rig or a simply float a bait out, or both. Typically 3/0 circles on the paternoster and a snelled rig with one 4/0 or 5/0 Gama circle and a 4/0 or 5/0 Big Red for the floater. Pretty much always a Pillie, unless I've got some fresh looking squid. Although, a nice fillet of a fresh caught Tailor/Pike is my preferred bait.
For Sweetlip, it's typically a 3/0-4/0 circle, running ball sinker, and a piece of squid.
Generally works well. Of course, in the middle of the Snapper ban we went out chasing sweetlip. How'd that go you ask? Probably our best day ever for legal Snapper/Squire, and not one Sweetlip.

Plastics? A whole different variety of shapes and sizes until something starts jumping on them!