Hi Raiders,
Hit up Middle Harbour for a jewie flick the other day. Conditions were pretty good and was keen to get onto my first of the summer. I had planned to fish a live yakka or tailor on a bait rod to increase my chances. The tailor and yakkas wouldn't play but in 20 mins or so found a few legal bream in the early 30's and a Blackfish of 30cm. Didn't know blackfish fancied unweighted prawns?!?!
Over the next hour or two I flicked around SP. Z-man swimmers 4" in "red shad". No interest for the first hour then i noticed a little tick in my line. Often the bigger jews take softies so subtly that the bite often goes undetected. So, feeling optimistic i struck up on it and whatever it was had a bit of weight and then went for a short, sharp run, with a few nice headshakes. Thinking school jew for sure i played it out for a couple of minutes. When it began to tire i took advantage and coaxed it in. To my disbelief, a cracker of a bream revealed itself. Never thought i'd catch a bream on a 4" paddle tail lure but it happened I was a little gutted having thought it was a jew but still happy with what turned out to be a Soft Plastic PB for me. Measured the fish up and went 40cm on the dot. I was running 15lb braid and 20lb leader, so the fish really gave a good account of itself to draw out a 4-5 minute fight.
All in all, a productive session with a nice little PB the result. Good to see things heating up and hopefully the fishing continues to improve.
Cheers, Tom