Coomera River Bream 18-06

[JT]

Decided to go for a quick flick this morning (got a leave pass ) and hit the Coomera River. With the Tweed ABT coming up bream was today's target species.

Hit the ramp at around 6am and straight away small bream were boated off the shallows using SX-40's. Moved to the main river and boated the first couple of legal fish at 23cm to the fork. Hit some bridge pilons for a 25cm and 31cm to the fork. Plastics this time, 6" Berkley Gulp Sandworms in Camo colour cut down to 3" on a 1/24th Nitro jig head.

Moved to a marina complex and got my 5th legal at 26cm to the fork. Over the next hour in the same place caught around 10 bream including a couple of nice up-grades (29cm and 27cm fork length.

Move again, fishing whole 6" Sandworms in the main river again, throwing the Gulps into the darkest, nastiest spots between boats and their pontoons, waiting a few seconds after the first touch and striking hard with nearly locked drags. Pulled another nice couple of up-grades here (28cm and 27cm) as well as a heap of 25cm throw backs.

Time to go, all up around 35 bream, a couple of rat trevally and a 42cm flatty were boated. All fish released to fight again another day. Best 5 bream went 2.94kg which is my biggest 5 fish bag to date

Cheers

John

Best 5

[JT]

Ready for release.

[land_based]

Looks like a good training session John, do you usually have a bit of success on the gulp worms?

[Canoedle]

Nice session John, I really wanted to hit that part of the coomera myself yesterday, but ended up fishing the tallebudgera creek instead, wish I had gone with my instinct after reading that report.

[mat_anderson04]

well done mate i cant wate till abt

[TheSaint]

Nice bream John! Hope your luck carries over in the abt comp on the Tweed..

[Cloud_9]

John you need to talk to Rod.( flickflack.)
thats his home turf.
Cloud 9

[JT]

Cheers Guys,

Rob - love the Gulp Sandworms, I usually cut them down to 3", Today is the first time I have landed fish with them at 6". I found I needed to strike later, sometimes I didn't strike until I saw the line moving through the water.

Tweed ABT should be good if we can find legal fish, the Tweed is home of the undersized bream.

John

[Gutsy]

Well done John. Good luck. Just got back late last night from another successful Clarence event.

Cheers.

Marcel.

[JT]

Hey Marcel,

Looks like Steve & Wazza did OK, did either (or both) manage to qualify for the GF with their results?

John

[gogecko]

Well done JT, nice bag of 5. Ive been using cut down camo worms too, with good results. Bream luv em. Cant wait to get on the water this week and have my first go with the new hidden wieght jig heads and nuclear chicken gulps.

Andrew

[Fishin_Dan]

Good work John!!! Some nice lookin fish there. Hopefully we'll find a few like that on Sunday

[john_steward]

great day out john, sounds like they need an abt comp in the coomera, you'd have it in the bag.

[nabs12]

Hey
Thats top stuff JT..
Just have to keep up the form for the Tweed comp aye? Get a place in the finals.

Cheers

[Dodgy_Back]

Nice catch John , but you said it mate, there arent any legal Bream in the Tweed

You should have been at the Clarence, best laid out event I've been to.
Big crowd, a few display tents and some great bags of fish.

Best I could do was 20th

I'm back there next week for the kids holsand I bet I do well then.

Mick