Bream on plastics
Gday members, been a while since my last post, but thought id share a couple photos of fish that ive caught over the past 2 weeks. Both fish were caught under canning bridge on the raffles side of canning river.
First fish was caught using a Zman 2.5" grub in bloodworm with a 1g squidgy jighead cast at the pylons in around 1m of water with a slow retrieve, the fish hit solid and straight away tried to get me back into her home, with some crazy rod work, a couple hand breaks to the spool and a few pirouette's the fish gave up and I had won the prize! she pulled the tape out to 43cm (fork length) was a girthy fish as well, after a few photos the fish was released to make another anglers day. time of capture was around midday and was slack tide.
The second fish was caught using my go to plastic, a 2" snapback in motor oil with again a 1g squidgy jighead, this time the fish was caught casting out on the flats into the running tide on the edge of a weed bed, I was not working the plastic at the time as I was removing a wind knot from my braid, I had only just got the knot out when the stella started screaming, the fish took off away from the bridge before deciding that home wasnt out in the open and doubled back quick smart and had me snagged around a pylon before I could blink... it wasnt over yet though, still able to feel the fish on the other end I backed my drag off and started to walk out towards the pylon that I was snagged up on, I got to within a metre on the pylon when I spotted the fish and she must of seen me too, she unsnagged herself and gave up, I grabbed my leader about 2 feet away from the fish, which was lucky I did, because a second or 2 later my leader completely parted where it had been snagged up around the pylon, I lead the fish to shore and put the tape on her, another 43cm (fork length) bream, this fish was nowhere near as girthy as the other fish, but put up a much more exciting fight, after a couple quick photos and quick swim of the fish she swam off strongly, time of day was around mid morning (9-10am) and the tide was pushing out hard.
Tackle used was berkley crystal line in 4lb and sunline leader in 4lb on a stella 1000fd and shimano tcurve tournament.
These are just the 2 40cm+ fish I have landed, on average ill get around 20 fish per trip, most around the 20-35cm range and with some serious unstoppables, hope you enjoy the write up guys and girls and get some useful info from it.
Regards Matt
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Sammy the Salmon
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Nice fat Bream, one of my
Nice fat Bream, one of my favourite species to target!
Got pics with the measuring stick too? new FW record (for the time being) if you do
SandGroper84
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nah I havent ay, my tape
nah I havent ay, my tape measure is from a sewing kit, bit easier to carry around
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soupster51
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Nice
Top effort on the write up and pics. Bream fishing, gotta love it.
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Snags
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Nice fish! Thanks for going
Nice fish!
Thanks for going to the effort of givng us info on tackle and conditions.
Very helpful for novices like myself
SABRE
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Nice
Nice report Matt and a couple of stonkin bream well done.
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chrisp
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Good fish, Kudos for sharing
Good fish, Kudos for sharing the info too!
Hebbs
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Some class fish there and
Some class fish there and nice story too.
The blowies not shredding your softies? Last time I hung a softie over the boat was last year and the river was thick with them.
Cheers
Hebbs
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SandGroper84
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yeah they can be bad, but
yeah they can be bad, but after a while you learn what a blowie bites like and what a bream bites like, sorta have to or gets expensive.. feel blowies, reel it in cast again.
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SandGroper84
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Cheers for the comments,
Cheers for the comments, worked hard for these fish.
I will give some caution for young people and people that are not confident swimmers, yeah your only in around 1m metre of water, but there is some deep holes under that bridge and when you add fast moving current and boat wake, which at times came be almost a metre high itself (some people don't seem to understand that its 6 or 8 knots through there), it can get quite dangerous. So please be careful if your going to have a crack at this location, don't want to hear on the news that someone drowned down there.
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Sammy the Salmon
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Get yourself one of these
Get yourself one of these bad boys:
http://www.swivelsoriginal.com/index.php/products/fish-measure-wa
Corrosive resistant and damn handy!
beau
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Thanks for the info mate! I
Thanks for the info mate! I want to start getting into it for when the weather its too rough for the ocean. I dont mind catching little ones as long as I'm catching fish on plastics I'll be happy!
brg
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sweet write up and solid
sweet write up and solid breambos .Good to see there's still some good bream under there that the baito crew haven't raped.
ca11um
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Solid fish mate!! Well
Solid fish mate!! Well done.
Beau - get into it mate, it's really funny to work bream out on lures
Uluabuster
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Good work and thanks for
Good work and thanks for sharing!!
trymyluck
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Thanks so much for the
Thanks so much for the sharing ..i didnt realise it was possible to get the numbers of bream that you can from the shore in the swan. This might be my next new thing...Will find my own location though ,cheers
EdiFish
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Very big, fat, healthy fish!
Very big, fat, healthy fish! Good work, you obviously got it all sussed out
southcity104
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Cheers for the write up.
Cool to see quality fish landed metro.
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dan.the.man
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Nice job
Nice fish mate and good read too
Digger01
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Great work and great report
It would put a grin on my face just like that too.. Have seen a couple from the east side platform in the past that are rediculously big, shoulders like like female russian gymnast..
supag33k
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Might have to have a crack
Might have to have a crack down there some time...good write up!
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