Bream: rate the bait.

[blue-mako]

r u serious lucky phil??? 20lb line leader for bream?? doesnt seem rite to me id say maybe 6-8lb??? i fish sp over bait for bream but the techniques for both dont require jewwie gear unless u like a quik easy fite

[Freeeedom]

Was in BCF this morning and checked the price of their chicken gut - worked out at $15/kg. Supermarket chicken breast or thigh fillet is still cheaper.
Cheers Freeeedom

[thedeckie]

Blue Mako,
Have fished seriously for bream with Lucky Phill and yes 20lb line is serious for bream,6-8lb is what we used to floss our teeth while waiting for hits LoL!!!

Cheers Paul

[land_based]

Secret pudding recipe passed on from my great uncle who used it to fish the hawkesberry river for the big stonkers. While down there a few years ago picked up my PB bream of 48cm, when i get home from work ill put a pic up.

[AaronM]

Unweighted whitebait on small ganged hooks. Looks natural, bream love them and almost anything else will have a go as well.
Aaron

[bidkev]

Thanks for the replies fellers. See my report on the Pine today to see how I fared

kev

Doing a thing wrong for a long period of time gives it the superficial appearance of being right.

[Sean]

Fresh bread....FRESH or it won't stay on. break the crusts off, roll it onto the hook shank, then squeeze it hard to remove the air. I think it is the best, personally. Sean. Use the crust unweighted on the surface around snags for some fun visual fishing.

[Flash]

r u serious lucky phil??? 20lb line leader for bream?? doesnt seem rite to me id say maybe 6-8lb??? i fish sp over bait for bream but the techniques for both dont require jewwie gear unless u like a quik easy fite

Landbased fishing for bream in the Pine is a dirty business.
The bream put everything they've got into the first run, straight into the rocks.

Having said that, the most powerful bream I've come across have been under the bridge at the boat passage near the Water Police at Fisherman Island.

[Flash]

Use the crust unweighted on the surface around snags for some fun visual fishing.

Sounds like that would be good toward the bottom of the runout.

[straddie]

I'm using 6kg at the moment in a few places I'm fishing and the bigger fish are still winning plenty. Give them any kind of start when you are fishing amoung oysters, barnacles, rocks, piles and anything else sharp within a few metres and it's all over in the first few seconds. The same outfit has landed snapper to just under 5 kg, tailor to a couple of kilo, spottie mackeral to 5kg but on numerous occassions has been done in by fish that at a guess wouldn't have been much bigger than 30cm when I have been too slow to put some hurt on them.

I've considered jumping up to 10kg particularly with most of these areas also holding populations of eastuary cod but am resisting cause it takes the fun out of it if you win them all.

Baits? hmm depends on what size fish are around and sometimes what mood I'm feeling in, as to how actively I want to fish and what bait is in the area at the time. At the moment hardiheads, herring and prawns are about so that's what I am using, but more often than not 2nd or 3rd trip pillies will do the job. The spikey buggers are happy to pick up a free feed of almost anything if you present it to them nicely.