generally depends on the rain etc. I know someone who did quite well at burswood the other day had 4 fish over 30cm.

hey mate i bin fishing burswood latley and have bin cleaning up on decent bream and really big flatties, bin throwing around sx40s in the 306 colour.

we tried the causeway early this morning only blowies we ended up i think its called canning bridge next to burswood golf corse got a coulpe lost a couple of biggies better luck next time i think

ps.thanks blowie for the early morning fish and a bit of laughter at the end you know what i mean

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 your right there diff wasnt a bad morning at all   just a shame the  the bream were a bit on the small side  but thats ok  we got some this time round 

  your welcom   for the light entertament  (  i fell out of the boat ) )  thats funny and im sure i will be  paying for the next few day 

hey diff went fishing behing caversham house and caught 5 bream one not even 10 cms and i also fell into the river and now my phone is stuffed lol trying to go out today

 proberly best if you and blowy DONOT fish together you guys know you should be dry in a boat thats not moving   hay fisho did you get out this morning  

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i see heaps of people fishing between ski club and burswood

That explains the rumour of the whale in the river - thought it was a hoax but now i know.

Good to see you & diff got into some fish.

nah didnt get out today diff hopefully monday after work

hay moylee it was better than darryl getting draged in

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even the  4 drunken old blokes  that had already started drinken at 10.30  thought it was pritty funny  i think i seen one of the  almost light his snowwhite beard on fire wile he was larphing

no you done well blowy we will have to do it again soooooooon

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I went out on Saturday at about 12 and fished till about 4pm.  I tried at the claremont jetty, aroudn Nedlands yacht club, Jojo's, matilda bay, near the narrows, just west of the bridge at the causeway and at the start of riverside Dr near the bridge. I peppered all those spots with hundreds of casts, walked up and down the shore around all those areas and managed nothing other than a few lost lures and a getting completely saturated.

To add to that I did a recon mission aroudn Point Peron after work on Friday and got no fish (at least I knwo what the area looks like now) and then fished North Mole yesterday for some good sized herring.

The bream are really bugging me.  I have been chasing them hard and still no luck!

with persistance you will get the rewards, ive only fished the river for bream a few times and only caught small ones, will start to put a few more hours in one day and try and get some big ones

Give the old prawns a go. Cast an unweighted, prawn around the yacht clubs (or even better if you can do it - under the Barrack St ferry terminal).

Lower reaches try a whole mussle as the blowies will take your prawn if your fishing structures.

Dean, this may seem like a stupid question but do you use a whole mussle including shell.  I am assuming you mean a fairly small one with a hook wedged between the lips?  Is that right?

To keep the bait away from the blowies, you leave the mussel in the shell. Bream like picking mussels off rocks and piers so they're lips are adapted to remove them from the shell. 

Theres a great picture in 'how to catch a fish' which shows you how to rig them (with a bream stuck on the hook). I dont have it in front of me, but from memory, they used an offset hook like those worm/SP ones, though perhaps a long shanked hook (baitholder type might be good) would work too. The straight shank was along the hinge. I think the barb was away from the shell. I suspect when rigging, the shank passes through the mussel to stop the whole thing falling off. Then weight it with a small running ball sinker to the hook as you would other baits.

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