Gday

Made the most of the perfect weather over the weekend and thought it'd be a perfect opportunity to go hunt some bream in one of my favourite spots in the swan.  First time for the year so we were anxious to catch a few, it also helped get me, my brother Dave and cousin Matt out of the warm confines of our beds at 5:00am in the morning cold.  Dave set the bar immediately with his first cast producing a healthy 25cm bream (released).

It was a great start to the mornings fishing with my first cast also producing a fat 40cm bream a personal best (released). A very healthy specimen with a weight estimated at easily a kilo+.  Plenty of interest contined all morning but we had an unusually high amount of missed hookups. Obviously out of touch with their fussy nature and awesome ability to find structure we decided to keep it a short stint and try again later that afternoon.

Upon returning to the area again in the afternoon the fishing session began the same way, with myself immediately within 2mins of arriving and casting, i set the hooks and landed another plump bream of 30cm.

This was followed by my cousin landing his first ever bream of 28cm. The grin on his face was priceless. He didnt think he'd ever land one. His was accompanied by Dave's ever increasing tally another 30cm specimen not to long after.

We had plenty of fish around so much so that fish (that we were unable to identify) were leaping in and out of the water of the same vicinity we were fishing. Something substantial may have been chasing them so this kept us interested for an hour or so, hoping it would make its way to one of our rods. No luck tho but we were happy to see Matthew once again fighting a decent sized bream that was taking drag and heading for the cover of a low lying tree. He managed to escort it out but did snag it on a log. Dave was able to walk along the log in the water and undo the line as for matthew to land a new personal best bream of 32cm. Ecstatic with our efforts we decided to stick at a bit longer, to no avail.

Time passed and the fish were becoming less aggressive, the evidence of the tide slowly dropping started to show once submerged logs in the water we were fishing. This accompanied with the warming sunlight slowly fading we decided to pack it up and head home before any mozzies could make short work of our limbs. All in all it was a very entertaining 2 sessions of bream fishing, with plenty of fish about and 2 pb's to top it off. All fish were in remarkable condition and had obviously been eating well, so we were glad to see them all released and ready to fight another day.

cheers