My first Bream on a plastic

[chop]

I woke up before the sun came up and headed to the river rock wall hoping to catch a fish for dinner.

It was a nice morning and I spent three hours to the top of the tide flicking plastics and mostly a 3" Zman shrimp on a 1/4 size 1 jighead. There were hardly any bites but it made my morning landing my first bream on a lure and it was fun.

I was going to chase flathead at another Brisbane spot this afternoon at low tide but I am too tired and there is always tomorrow



I haven't eaten a bream in about 6 years and I just checked on my parents place and raided the garden for salad greens and herbs.

[Funchy]

well done Chop. 1/4oz jig head hey? You fishing in a lot of run? What lb line you using? Since lightening up to 6lb and using real light jigheads my catch rate has improved and when you hook up, heaps of fun.

[chop]

I use 10lb power pro which would be the equivalent of six to eight pound braid of other brands by diameter.

Today I did have a 10lb vanish leader on and if I had my 4lb trilene packed in the bag I may have tied a leader of that.

I usually use a 1/6th but I gave that ago and a 3/8th after someones advice which is way too heavy for me.

If I use a 1/16 the plastics float down really slowly and get carried away with the current.

Dunno. I may do it wrong but I go by feel and look of the plastic dropping in the water. I look at the action of the plastic when it is close to the bank and decide the weight from there.

1/8th to a 1/4 seems okay to me but lighter than those I don't think I can use in the places I fish with the usual conditions and heavier is overkill.

I don't really know what I am doing...trial and error. I think with the bream though I could go real light on the jighead and drop it 2 meters from the bank and the bream would go for it as at times they hang around under these ledges in schools and from what i have read if I used a real light jighead and leader it would be success but I would need little current and wind ..lol

I am open to all the help I can get

I was expecting more run than there was but the wind did pick up which I wasn't expecting..

I wasn't targeting bream but just anything that may have been caught ...

[Funchy]

I am using six lb nanofil amd love it. Very thin and light. Lighter you can go the better for bream in particular. Of couse the run makes a difference. Anyway, keep trialing and learning, I know i do every time i go out

[chop]

I edited my post.

I wasn't targeting any species as the river is a random area and was quite dirty today compared to a few weeks ago when there was allot of rain but they may be dumping from the dams.
I usually have this place to myself but there were a few blokes that turned up a few hours after me and they were fishing about 20 meters up river with one using plastics and the other bait and they had no luck. It was one of those days. I should have taken photos of all the boats out near the mouth of the river as well as the sail boats motoring off to Sandgate for the Brisbane to Gladstone.

And for me the river is dirty when it looks brown and I can't see my lure until it is a foot from the bank. Weeks ago when I caught my trevally the water was blue but was dirty with debris. Maybe the stupid amount of boat traffic was messing with the water quality.

[dan sheard]

Dont be to scared about going to light with your braid its surprising what you can lift with small stuff. I've got some good fish around the country on 6 to 10 pound line.