Fishing the blackwood with damo6230
Headed down south for the weekend to fish the Blackwood river with damo. Got into Bunbury pretty late thanks to an overheating car (radiator was clogged, and I'd just had it serviced the week before). After dropping the car off in the morning, we headed down to the south west.
We hit the river after stopping for some lunch in margos. Unfortunately all afternoon we didnt get a single fish, and barely a nudge. Lots of snags to fish though. Probably too many, as you need to find ones with fish on.
Headed in to Yallingup for the night to try again on the sunday. Woke up nice and early and decided to hit canal rocks first. Tried chucking plastics around in the wash and spinning some metals and poppers but nothing was biting. Burleyed up and you could see the fish (herring and skippy at least) but they wouldnt touch anything including some gulp worms wafting around. A few hits on a gulp prawn, but no hookups. We were hoping it wasnt going to be a repeat of the first day.
Went to the blackwood next, and first snag just up from the ramp and I got a few hits on the SP. Cast out again and 3rd cast of the river got this 34cm bream, a PB.
Tried chucking some more plastics around the snag, but no more hits so went onto the next one. Only about 2 casts and I was on again. This time a nice 35cm bream. So previous PB only held for 15 minutes or so.
Lots of snags around, perhaps too many to choose from.
Tried another snag or two, and damo brought out some of the new Atomic Hardz. Thought that the fat crank ones werent as effective as the thinner shads, but damo started flicking one around anyway. A hit, then pause, then a smash and nice hookup.
Unfortunately no more fish. Seems that once the wind comes in, they dont bite, but it could just be coincidence. Have to find out where the fish are holding on the day, because theres a lot of river to choose from and all of it nice and snaggy. Even though only 3 fish were caught, I ended up getting two really nice sized fish, including my PB (twice :p). Damo got some fish on some new lures, so was happy with that, so still a good trip.
damo6230
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good weekend out on the Blackie
good weekend out Matt, you are welcome back anytime mate.
good post mate
cheers for the new Atomic Hardz you bought down from Perth.
always good to get out catch a few. From all reports the Blackwood is still fishing slow......but we found fish.
Looking forward to Salmon season off the Cape.
cheers
damo
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Buz
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Awesome bream from down the
Awesome bream from down the blackwood. I have fished it numerous times and have only succeeded a couple of times on hard bodies. Like you say so much good looking snags where do you start. I mainly fished the area around Alexander Bridge to Warner Glen bridge(shore bashing).
Just an interesting thing, when i was last in Melbourne i picked up these ruler stickers for Black Bream and Pink Snapper from a tacklestore over there. What it had was the lengths of the fish to the ages of the fish written on it. So prtty much you measure your fish and you can roughly gets its age. Of course all this is based on years of information gathering and research on their bream and snapper not ours. But even if ours grow faster/slower sort of made me appreciate the fish a bit more knowing roughly how old the bigger fish i was catching might be. Sometimes older than myself! Just so you know for their bream 25cm was 6yrs old, 30cm was 9 yrs old, 35cm was 15yrs old and 40cm was 27yrs old.
damo6230
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Buz
getting most fish around the lower end of the ski area. having said that I have dropped some real horses between the Alex bridge and campground. some rock bars there and couldn't stop the fish......
mostly fish the deep drop off whether they be rock or snags. figure deep river so fish are deep.
cheers
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Colin Hay
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Great report Matt
What a beautiful part of the State. And the fishing looks like it was pretty good too.
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Adam Gallash
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nice report
Nice report guys, wishing my bream trip had been like that.
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bite!
Making the best of a slow bite by the sounds fella's. Well done on the PB (s) Matt.....artificial action!
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