Monster Bream and Whiting/ DI- Rainbow report

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Hi guy's an gal's, just got home from the rainbow comp and an awesome 2 weeks fishing.

caught great fish all week long, plenty of bream whiting tarwhine dart were around, i diidnt get to target tailor this year but they were there. never saw a whighting under the 500g mark for the entire comp, but couldnt get one big enough to beat the overall of 595g, bream and tarwhine were thick also but all in the 1 kg range and hard to find over that. biggest bream went about 1.3 kg for the week.

the best fishing came 2 days after the rainbow comp. On the monday the fish was unbeliavble on the beach even with the netters cruising up and down. We caught 6 whiting in the 700g plus range one going 772g which was 45cm long and was the largest whiting caught on the beach in 6 years. this netted me $555.00 on the tewantin ferry fishing comp jackpot for beating the current weight of 769g which had been caught in 2000. we also caught plenty of bream in the 1 kg range with one absolute stonker going 1.735Kg on the ferry scales narrowly missing the winning bream of 1.765.

so it was a good way to finnish after the comp, pitty we couldnt find those fish while the comp was on but hey thats fishing. still we managed plenty of daily prizes.

will post some photo's of the big bream and whiting this arvo.

Cheers Drew

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Good on you Drew - haven't seen any movement on the ferry board for years. Would have been real nice to get the bream as well. Where did you find the fish? Still very little being caught at the southern end as far as I can tell.
Looks like you've got the rig all sorted hey?

Linds

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hey lindsay, yep just missed the bream as well made two trips down to the ferry on the monday evening. my scales packed it in the day before so it was worth the drive down. you know the spot pretty well

the fishing there on the monday arvo and evening was just sensational. the whole week prior i had fished 300m south of the rocks there in a good whiting formation/ drain where all week i caught whiting to about 600 g and bream/ tarwhine to about 1kg. enkleman beat me to it one arvo and he caught one that went 736g and he weighed it on the ferry and took out the second place prize, then went to take out the overall for the rainbow comp.

gary caught good tailor all week at the river mouth, up to about 4.5Kg. big fred caught a couple upt about 4kg, i didnt bother as i was trying to target whiting and bream for this comp so stuck to the top end of the beach.

as of monday, most of the gutters had disapeared and formed into one long featureless drain that was quite deep, the rocks near freshwater were right bang in the center of it with the rocks well exsposed and plenty of deep foaming water around them. they were simply unbelivable for fishing. i reckon any fish that found its way into that masive drain would a some point end up hanging around the rocks.

I whacked on one of your sliders i had laying around and whacked it on one of alveys( left my spinning reel back at camp and the fishing was to good to return to get it ) how ever trying to get any speed was a bit of a problem.

passed you on the ferry going home on tuesday gave a wave but wasn't sure if you saw me, will catch up soon.

Drew

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awesome catch 1.7kg a good fish im waitig for those fotos!

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Drew

Sounds like a pretty good few days on the beach. Some stonker fish caught [smiley=2thumbsup.gif] but just after the bell. You might have to give us some tips on the whiting techniques


Neil

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photo's on there way now just resizing them fishboy

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first up the animal breambo

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youre jokeing,
now thats a bream!!!

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this is the fattest, most solid bream i have caught to date for its length. it went just over 45 cm on the rule and had many battle scars over ist head and body, it resembled more of a snapeer then a bream

check out the gob on it , reckon that would swallow a 6/0 no probs

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heres some whiting pic's

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Thats a horse Bream and the whiting are nice fish too! Well done

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more....

animals arent they!

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1 more of the big fella

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pullin a few worms on the monday

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bingo