Bream - Swan River

I have been fishing in the Swan over the past month these being my first experiences with bream.

Firstly i tried Garratt Road Bridge where me and my mate only managed a small flatty.  Only having 5 minutes fishing time left we decided to try the little jetty upstream infront on the rowing club.  First drop my mate caught a 20cm bream then 3rd drop for me i pulled a 27cm, so 2 bream in 5 minutes and we had to go.

We returned the next week to pull 18 from that jetty in 2.5hrs, the biggest being 32cm and the rest averaging 27-28cms. 

Tried also the jetty near Redcliffe bridge and pulled a few from there, also caught my first bream on soft plastics (a 6" natural gulp worm).  The bream hit this in teh shallows near the concrete pylons and even JUMPED to try to shake the hooks, was 29cm my pb.

Have returned to these spots this w.e. and the rains must have washed em downstream as no hits at all in both locations.

All were released :D

ps sorry about the large image size
First time user and poster
any tips on downsizing the photos would be much appreciated.

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firstly, welcome to the

Sun, 2010-05-30 15:28

firstly, welcome to the site. well done on the bream session, sounds like it realy went off for you. well done on your pb bream as well. hope you can sort out the pic sizes as i wouldnt have a clue, something to do with photo bucket i think.a bloke named Colin maloy put up a step by step instruction to do this a while ago, maybe worth searching for it in the search function on the left of your screen

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Nice fish mate. on the

Sun, 2010-05-30 15:32

Nice fish mate. on the trusty gulp worm...

 Whats with the newspaper?

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Ash Hazell

"A cast a day keeps the psychiatrist away"

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hahaha yeh the news paper

Sun, 2010-05-30 15:36

hahaha

yeh the news paper was when i was fishing under Redcliffe bridge

and it was real coarse sand

so i thought id lay him/her on the paper.

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Points for trying! Paper is

Sun, 2010-05-30 16:42

Points for trying! Paper is absorbent, sand will just wash off, so the fish is probably better off in the dirt next time.

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