Decided to hit the Blackwood with Zap. It's been to long between trips.

Hit the water about 7am and decided to stay around the area near Alexandra bridge as the wind was blowing and it offered some protection.....

Didn't take long for the bream to find our lures.....

The old trusty Luckycraft 48DD pointer never lets me down.

Zap was already beating me though......

For those astute lure fisherman you will recognise the Bassday Sugardeep lure but notice a fundimental difference. Upon hitting the river and opening Zap's tacklebox we immediately noticed most of his expensive Japanese lures had melted. Yes thats right they had melted due to heat exposure and most were now deformed. Look at the tail of the lure and you will see the indentation resulting from heat exposure.

Needless to say we used them to see how they would perform and you can see that although a little deformed thay swam true and killed the fish. That particular lure was the stand out. Zap's first fish fell to a Luckycraft Shingo that had melted and was "bent". Well he pinged a fish straight away and his next cast it got smashed......was laughing my arse off at Zap's bewildered expression and needless to say the next two lures, all deformed, got smashed.......still laughing at Zap's facial expression standing there with rod in hand contemplating the fate of his three $25 dollar lures.....

The lucky lure now adornes his pool room mantelpiece.

So a trend has now been instigated. Purchase an expensive Japanese bream lure, leave it in the sun for some "special" treatment and cast away at the notoriously fussy bream. Zap outfished me all day on his lures and I matched his selection with mine straight out of the box........

I did use some soft plastics and the standout was the 2" gulp prawn on a owner 1/16 jighead, fished deep. Couldn't stop the big fish and we both got smoked....they hit hard and fast.

Was a fantastic day on the water and some more pictures. Easliy 15-20 in the boat with many lost and some big bust-offs.

That sugardeep just keep producing the goods.

Might have to leave some Exi lures out in the sun.........