Anti-Carp

Landbased, don't cast over them with big sinkers, they are a lot closer then where you think... when fishing livies fish them unweighed they know how to get in trouble =)

It's no so much the size of the hook for the fish but rather does the hook size suit the bait, if you consider that most hardy heads are no bigger then 15 cm's and are a thin profile bait fish 1/0 should be ample and 3/0 would be the absolute tops. Also bear in mind hardheads are some what fragile, and it's best to hook them through the mouth.

If you want to use them live use a 1/0 hook through the mouth, they are an awesome bait and just about every thing goes for them even bream.

Very nice fish Tony !! esp on 2lb, they've got a lot of low range torque and grunt. They are very much under-rated

Catfood is the bait fishing American Express, don't leave home with out it. We usually mix it up with bread and some water, works a treat.

well done thats a very nice jewie and a solid breamski, pity about your brother's jersey though!! go the blues !!

On a hot summers night try putting out one of those mullet out live with a 2 x 10/0 hooks free swimming or a large 7 to 9 inch plastic, around there you may be pleasantly surprised. But a word of caution I wouldn't recommend taking or eating fish from there.

Well done !! great stuff on the light gear =)

Great idea =) think i'll trade my 3 inch bass minnows for Halco Tremblers and Pakula cockroaches for the breambo's too =)

Went for a session down by the river this arvo for some breamski', no breamski's today but got this nice lil palmolive which went hard on 4lb. Got him on a 3 inch gulp minnow

I reckon salted pillies work better then fresh, if u salt them down properley you'll find that the oils with in the bait come to the surface via osmosis and u've got a natural berley trail. I find that a salted bait always gets hit a lot quicker then a fresh one.

Stewy's right, the Smilin Jack's are the best. Also the small Outback minnow lures you see in department stores work well. You don't need to spend big to get the breamski's. With bream, I think the trick is a slow retrieve just enough to get the action of the lure working use plenty of pauses in the retrieve. But this is what works best for me, I'm sure the bream guns on this site may have some other ideas on how to crack the breamski code.

Good luck =) You can't go past bread flies for breamski's especially the deer hair floating flies. Berley up with bread and get them feeding off the surface and throw a fly behind them. They are absolue suckers for it. (so are carp) You can also roll your own variations of bread flies, using foam and cotton wool.

Looks like a bony bream to me

won't surprise me, wouldn't be surprised if other popular spots like Pier 2, Bradleys Head and Balls Head will soon be banned. I've heard murmurs in the past,of popular fishing spots becoming off limits to fishos The way that a few fishos act with leaving mess all around the place e.g with leaving bait bags, fishing line all over the place and some of the anti social behaviour of some fishos it'll only be a matter of time till fishing will be banned from a lot of land based locations unless this behaviour changes The key point is that at the end of the day lets keep our land based locations tidy and act in a responsible manner.

G'day Penguin, Please see this thread http://fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.ph...058&hl=mono these fish are very common during summer and you'll usually get em while catchin your livies.

Thanks Grant. I did some research on em and some people reckon the larger ones are good eating and some people keep em in aquariums. What I don't get though is why people pay $15 bucks or more at the aquarium for one.

Try the top of the tide and fish the lumo or razer back jigs and smear some pillie on em every few cast. They work better for me then the more expensive jigs.

Unless you're rich don't fish plastics around em. They are of the same ilk as toadies and choppers for soft plastic wreckers

Has any one tried using butter bream for bait? And if so how'd u go on em?

The best fun with carp is to get some bread around to get them on the surface and target them on either unweighed bread baits or bread flies. If you want to get them on plastics you can't go past a 2 inch pumpkin seed gulp grub on a very light jighead 1/32 ounce. The retrieve let it sink to the bottom lift it 30 cms or so and let it drop wait for around for a count of 15 and repeat it over and over again. Watch for any movement in the line and strike quickly as they are finniky buggers and will drop your plastics very quickly the moment they suspect any thing is wrong

Hey Gavin Stop hunting santa claus fish. Shot ya a PM Ming

He ain't a loner think I got his brother. Got him on a butterflied yakka.

When you are setting your drag you need to measure it off the rod loaded up. I would recommend provided that you have a balanced outfit that you set your drag to 1/3 of the break strain of the line e.g if you are running 6 kilo line 2 kilos of drag or 9 kilos of line 3 kilos of drag. The way you measure this is using a spring loaded scale that you can get at the tackle shop. And you pull the line attached to the scale until line starts pulling off the reel. The thinking behind only fishing 1/3 of the breaking strain is 1) The power of some fish on the initial strike if the drag is set to high is enough to break the line on impact if the drag is set to high. 2) By placing the drag to 1/3 of the breaking strain you are able to provide additional hurt to the fish by palming the spool if you are using a thread line reel. (don't fall into the temptation of tightening a drag mid-fight with a fish)

Thanks for the heads up. We went down the weir today and bagged a few fish on floating bread baits. We landed 4 I'd estimate the biggest went to a kilo. Then after trying to pull in fish number 5 the water behind it exploded and my drag made the all to familar drag sound. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz as 8 lb mono peeled off my reel effortlessly. I tried to slow the line down by palming the spool and then in the heat of the moment I had a brain explosion and tried to lock up on it and my silstar rod shattered in 3 pieces. BUMMER !!! I didn't get a good look at what took the mullet but I reckon it was a noah as it was way too fast and powerful for a jewie . Perhaps next weekend out comes the heavy tackle.