Bream Mad

The tan is primarily for Drag washers. The purple is lighter and meant for gears.

Any bream over 40cm is a Great Catch Well done

just came back from roo river and trust me, carp dont mind a surface lure or any lure for that matter. They go hard and long, pitty realy to leave them on the bank

Hi Raiders, Been a while since my last report, to be perfectly honest not much around except my local bronze buddies in between the floods. Been pretty hard to find some clear river time but the last couple of weeks have provided me the water i needed! Tried upstream on the other side of the river and the action has been HOT! all lures doing the job but the standouts have been camion sr, lc areas 1/8 spinnerbait, lc nw pencil, shad alive 50. Had one pool i scored 5 fish in five casts all with the nw pencil, just before the rain came!!! the fish have not been big but plenty around and always willing to put on a stoush, bass style. Had an interesting conundrum while dehooking a bass on the back treble. He shook around and promptly deposited the front treble into my hand, i had to reach for the pliers to get his hook out, but everytime i did he shook around and pushed the top treble deeper into my finger eventually i let him go to grab the pliers and dehook him, by this time the top treble was DEEP into my finger, would not come out backwards, so cut off the hook and pushed it out forwards AARG!!. anyway here are some pics of my local buddies

yeh got to always have a camera handy, you never know when you PB will jump on!!

Well done alway good to get a bream on the network ! i love the sound they make when they hit it, it is so distinctive water temps were up to 26 degs two weeks ago, but have dropped now with all the rain cheers kael

i am the proud owner of an alphas type r and here is what i do. I give it a light spray with the hose and wipe it down. As far as oil and grease goes the line winder alsways needs some clean light grease, and the spool bearings benifit from one drop of oil into each bearing. When it come to the gears a simple clean and fresh grease once a season is plenty. When it comes to internal bearings i only add new oil, never remove old oil with thinners or such unless the bearing feels not smooth. Even then it is probably best to replace them as they never get that new feel back cheers kael

Hi guys, Had a few high end daiwas luvias and steez which have this small bearing on the rotor lock nut, the idea being as the rotor turn its keeps the main shaft bush from turning relative to the main shaft. Although of cause the shaft is sliding in and out on the bush anyway. Seems like a waste of a bearing to me. Any way the problem exists when it intermitantly stops and starts this causes an uneven feel to the reel, has any one had the same problem and what to do?

i have a 700 series Humminbird and its it portable meaning it unclips from the mount for storage, running of a LIion battery 1800maH it comes with a built in gps. Resolution is outstanding for about $500. it is black and white though, however you can get wide side tranducer for it which shows the bank ect.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! those kings are unbelievable! that is awesome fishing well done 22kg on a popper is mind blowing stuff

what fly were you using?

i will be going out tommorow night, the cicadas are starting so the bass should be looking up

Wow great fish in a beautiful setting, what more could you ask for. ps' if you wanted bigger fish maybe you should have fished the derwent hey did you see weigal's monster

Cool all you bream lures will work, however go for the thinner profiles (xrap, mx40, sx40 ect). Keep the retreive smooth and slow, they will happily smack a moving lure. Don't be afraid to throw some big lures around, there is some monsters in TCD.

the fly rod was pulled out for a couple of hours, but not success. I am much more comfortable fishing rivers with the long wand. Having said that the guy next to me nailed 3 in 3hours on the fly using a traditional 2 wet fly rig (sort of a black coachman i guess?). so i need to brush up. However it was hard to argue with the ruthless efficiency of a mx40, and one stage i got three strikes in three casts

i was planning an overnighter camping at boyds camp ground, but when i saw the rivers i camped at lyell instead, still have not caught a fish in that place, nice place to camp though

cheers mate, yeh i am pretty proud of it Rod is a loomis SHR821 pimped with titanium sics and $60 of the best cork money can buy. she now weighs just 98 grams and has serious power (she is rated 6-10lb). Reel is a brand new steez 2508 loaded with 8lb super PE. unfortunatly he did not put up much of a fight (he had an empty stomach), but that feisty little rainbow took some serious stopping!

AHH i was there i head west and it rains i was hoping to fish the kowmung, went to thommos instead

i was using silver fox, but i think you can get them in rainbow trout as well

Hi Raiders, Been ages since my last report, so hit thommos on the weekend to see if i could crack my pb trout. Got there and it was blowing 30knots directly into the shore looked better weather for surfing Any way there was a now distinct dirty water line just off the shore so i tied on a 80mm slick rig and retreived along this line. As i moved around the eastern bank i had a follow from a huge rainbow, then a bump from another trout. Then as i pulled the lure towards the dirty water it was smashed by a thommos 'monster' It ran out into the deeper water pulling a heavy drag, but despite its best efforts, I soon landed this monster buck brown of 60cm He would soon adorn my esky ! Later on the weather had cleared, so i ventured around to the far bay to try my luck, it did not take long for my mx40 to be hammered be a leaping rainbow, that promply through the hooks on the second jump This lure was working a treat and it seamed the local bows could not resist the little brown trout. Another hard take and after a brief scream from the steez the hooks pulled again Then finally the hooks stayed into another supercharged rainbow which realy turned on the power and after a very long fight , i beach this little gem around 40cm I revieved and released here and headed home, looking forward to trout for dinner cheers Kael

Nice work as always swordie! starting to crack some jews consistantly makes me want to give them a go as well. good conditioned bream as well, many on the surface lures yet? berowra creek is awful for bream at the moment. I think maybe 27 deg water is a tad too hot for the bream. bass love it though kl

Great work, just love it when the tiny little ones smash a big lure have not had that much success with surface lures yet either, even with the cadas buzzing about. well done again kl

Great stuff a sense of adventure, a rod and some lures and you would be suprised what you can find keep it up kl

caught this just over the blue mountains! give it a go, just ask trout boy kl

Nice! what are the 'legs' made of kl