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Yh apparently a 40cm bream is about 18yrs old? I'm 21 so this one was pretty close lol

Yh I wouldn't do it if the hooks were deep in him but he was just hooked in the jaw.he swam away just fine

hey guys.just like to report a bream i caught around the harbour.went to a spot i usaully catch some decent snapper at (inside the harbour) and im also always using a 12ft rod to cast out the distance needed to reach the drop off. anyways weather on friday night was looking good so me and a couple of mates went out and sat around having a laugh and with only my rod casted in it wasnt looking to promising.not even 5 mins later i get some pulls on it and bring up a nice 31cm pinky. have another cast and its sitting there for about a hour without a touch so i bring it up and put a big banana prawn and throw it out. it was getting pretty quite at this stage (12:50am) so the call was made to pack and leave the rods in till the end.so as soon as i get off my chair i notice my rod pulling so i quickly grab it and set the hooks and call it for a soapie jew.as it comes to the surface we all said "yeah its a little jew" as soon as i lifted it out of the water i didnt believe my eyes it was a bream the thickness of this bream was the fattest i have seen.i have seen alot of 47cm models but nothing as fat as this.it measured 45.5cms and 2 kilos it was a nice fat healthy bream.so after a couple of snaps i returned the big muma back into the water and she swam off with not a care in the world.... cheers

balmian east wharf has gone too quiet lately and thats why i havnt been going for them since the last time. pretty wierd about that jumping thing...could have been anything

Sorry this is very long but I hope you enjoy reading! With much skilled gained from reading the forums and knowledge and advise gained by asking professionals like jewgaffer etc I thought it’s finally time to try for a Jew as I have only ever caught one at 48cms while targeting bream on 6lb…. During the last month or so I have targeted the Jew 5 times with great success catching 6 jewfish. Usually I go fishing with mates at drummoyne.To waste abit of time catching throw back bream and whiting etc .But this time my mates say to me “hey sami,lets go somewhere where we can catch fish” TRIP 1 So off we go to Balmain…we got there and my mates are getting into small tailor then upon further inspection I notice lots of squid in the water and we quickly chop or rigs and put some squid $2 squid jigs on. Cast after cast after cast and NOTHINGGGG.not even interested.So I put a small soft plastic on and there going for it…what to dooo??? No solution So we head home empty handed again…. TRIP 2 20/12/09 Wasn’t really a fishing trip but more of a bbq near the water. So before I leave I grab my brothers beach rod and a small rod for squidding and I also grab a small wooden squid jig my dad brought from the markets for $2. Get to drummoyne and one of my mates goes “hey sami,lets go squiding by the time they get the bbq going” “okay no worries” I say. So off to balmian we drive and my mate takes out a Yo Zuri squid jig he just purchased for $27… so first cast and my mate lands a squid…me”oh great I’m not going to catch sh*%#$T” After I rig mine up first cast and I’m onto one...Second cast and I’m on again. So after about 30mins after much tangles and snags lol I ended up with 5 and my mates only 1. Then the boys call me saying “if use want to eat COME NOW” so where off the drummoyne.finish eating and we cast out for a “jewie” then the waiting game begins……..well not for long my mate decides to pull his rod in after 5 mins…..and again…..and again….and…again… so now his lost 4 squid while I still got mine out there. Then I notice some quick taps and a grab the rod and strike and pull this beast in……hold on its gone…no its still there...It’s a massive flathead about a meter…BOYS GET THE NET……………………….WHAT NET? Ohhh Sh*&$t and you guessed it 35lb line gone PINNGGGG…… TRIP 3 27/12/09 “hey sami,lets go catch squid and go for jewies” okay no worries. We get to balmian and my mate catches the first squid on the first cast again. And I follow him with my first and so on till we had 9 in the bucket. I caught 8 of them and now my mates curious”what’s that jig you’re using?” So now the time is 11.30pm and the boys really want to fish. So off we go to drummoyne.we get there and there are 20 people on the wharf. Let’s go chiswick….another 20 people. So I quickly say follow me to a spot in gladesville.we get there and we a greeted by a great gentleman fishing for jewies.so we set up and we cast and the waiting game starts again…….NOT FOR LONG….my mates decides to pull his in after 5 mins :@ and continued doing so after losing 5 squid and getting snagged he finally gives up…I get a attack on my rod so I go to pick it up and fight the fish for about 2secs then PING………..35lb line snaps about 6inches above the hooks. So I ask the gentleman next to me what pound leader he is using and he says 80lb?????????? Jesus crist where am I going to get 80lb from. So I go to my tackle bag to have a look and found nothing but noticed some line on the ground with hooks. It looked about 50lb and was about 1.2m with hooks still attach…Hmmm so I quickly retie the hooks and rig it and cast out one of the 4 remaining squid. So mine is in there for about an hour now and I get up to check my bait and I noticed abit of weight “oh great seaweed” bring it in and there’s a little jewfish on it..it measured 43cms so back in he went. Cast out again and continue the waiting game. Then 2 of my mates say “this is sh*t where going” then about an hour later my rod bends all the way down and I’m into a good fish…boys grab the net get ready. I fight the fish for about 5 mins and we net a nice healthy looking jewie. Measuring 60cm..this was at 1.06am I quickly rig up another squid and give my last squid to the kind gentleman next to me and we both cast out. Then at 1.20am my rod is doing the exact same thing…5mins into the fight we net another jewie measuring 61cm….and let me tell you I didn’t expect these fish to pull that hard, I was honestly expecting them to be bigger. But now we have no more bait so we head home happy after teasing my mates that left earlier on lol… TRIP 4 29/12/09 Again we bored at home…friend call me “what you doing tonight” I reply “nothing…want to go fishing?” Before you know it there at my house waiting quickly grab the gear and were off. Get to balmian to catch squid and what do you know it, I only get 4 but it’s still good enough. Get to our spot unpack and cast in. Put a small squid on a 9ft rod and the bigger one on my brothers 12ft…wait…wait and the 9ft goes off quickly reel it in and it’s a nice bream. Then I pull mine in after I noticed lots of little taps from peckers.change the squid…recast and wait….it’s now 1.35am and before you know it the rod is going off and I quickly grab it and fought the fish as it got in closer I say “Boys grab the net”……………”WHAT NET” so I quickly launched the fish to the side and bring him in..He measured 65cm and was nice and healthy…so now with one big squid I cut it into strips waited 30mins and packed up and left for home. TRIP 5 6/01/10 My cousin and I decide to go out as he wants to get into jewies. We did the usual balmian stop and this time we get 7 squid and were off. We get to our spot and we both cast in. An hour passes by and now its 12.45am and we got nothing. So we both decide to change bait and cast back out. As we reel in we both feel weight as it comes close were both hooked onto stupid catfish...new bait and cast straight in. I tell my cousin just wait until 1.30am and I bet we will get something..now time passes and its 1.40am and the sound we love hearing goes off ZzZzZzZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz my cousin is into what seems like a big fish…and this fish was pulling hard on a 7wrap snider glass rod with a Daiwa Emcast real on some heavily set drag. And as it comes closer it spits the hooks and we are left speechless……then 10mins later my rod goes off but nothing compared to the fish we just lost, I fought the fish and brought him in. He measured 67cm and was one of the fattest jewfish I have ever seen….we cast out again but didn’t wait to long and we left for home...Again very happy anglers TRIP 6 8/01/10 My other cousin says let go for jewfish. I say yes lets go. We go to get squid and end up with only 3.So were off the try to catch some jewfish. So we get there and the place is filthy I was honestly so disgusted .so a quick clean up and we rig up, cast in and wait…………..10mins later my cousin is onto his first jewfish and we bring it up and it measured 46cm..Not bad for a first. Mine is still sitting untouched after an hour. Then In the middle of the water as we are just looking and waiting. A massive splash out of nowhere…I look at my cousin, my cousin looks at me, we look at the guys next to us, they look at us………..”WHAT THE FU*^&$K WAS THAT” I mean the splash this thing did was as big as a splash someone would do doing a belly buster in a pool. It was unbelievable. What would use think it was? I was thinking a dolphin……… in gladesville…. :S maybe a bullshark I don’t want to think it was a jewie because it would have to be 1 big jewfish. So after that we didn’t get no bites and we off to home. Now I hope you all enjoyed reading this story/report sorry I made it so long. Just like to add the gear I was using. a 12ft shimano rex hunt special with a okuma baitrunner loaded with 30lb line. Just a cheap combo. The hooks I was using are gamakatsu 6/0s. My hook up rate is 5/5 besides the snapping line. And again I thank everybody on the forums. Without the forums I would still be a trying to catch one doing all the wrong things. Now I wish I have motivated the young ones the way I have been motivated and wish use all get out there and try to get into them. They are really on the bite at the moment. Cheers Sami

Good work on the bream... I went out too Sunday morning....with the big tide i went the barrenjeoy flats were i usaully catch 10-15 bream every outing no matter what the tide is like.But on sunday no matter what i tried...bait,rigs etc i could not get one.i did manage 5 tailer 1 monster going 50cm all in 3m of water but not 1 bream. so i moved to my usally palm beach ferry wharf spot and managed one legal bream and a small flattie.the worst fishing i have ever had.i called it quits at 10. how good was the weather i think it was too nice for fishing that why i didnt catch nothing lol.it just shows you know your stuff mate. Thumbs up!!! cheers

shame about the fish guys.Atleast you had the company from eachother to enjoy another day on the water. i went out with dad saturday night and arived at Palm Beach Ferry Wharf 1:00am sunday morning. i did the usaul with a big light pointing to the water i had frogmouth pillies and big yellow tail everywhere.i had some nice squid but could not even get one.We caught 4 bream just right in front of the ferry wharf then went to barrenjoey flats towards the middle and caught 5 more bream and 2 flatties.We stayed for another couple of hours trying different spots but i could not get a touch so we called it quits at 10am.

I could'nt agree more with all that has been said.But just like to piont out what Plastic Man said I strongly agree with this and i was thinking of the same thing when i was fishing for bream at barrenjoey.the whole intrance to pittwater is 2-3m and a little channel on the west side only being a couple of meters. I was fishing yesterday from 4am to 6am and we caught 2 whiting 35-36cm,8 bream all over size biggest going 34cm and three flathead one 90cm,50cm and one 45cm. When the sun came up (only for 10mins) the fish shut off.When i pulled up the anchor it was amazing seeing how clear the water was.....3meters and i could see everything i mean it was so clear i could see little shells and everything on the bottom,Bream... they dont like this they well get spoked from noise and all. Harbour bream have plenty of cover and deeper water everywhere. Back to Pitty We moved to an old school spot infront of Palm Beach Ferry wharf and caught 2 over size snapper a kingfish and we seen his buddies hanging around chassing our baits.Crabs were plentyful with each drop resulting in a crab but we lost them on the side of the boat and only managed to get 1. I also noticed a boat with a big fish/crab trap dropping down in front of Palm Beach ferry wharf and on some occasions i see trawlers in the mornings But for kingfish go to the harbour as it is firing. I personally prefer to fish pitty for bream and whitting as i dont like eating harbour fish.

I was fishing barrenjoey flats on monday for bream and i tried for squid,there are a few squid around i caught a little one that atacked my nipper on the surface and there were a few large ones under but i could not temp them.they were just having a close look at my jig then turning away. I didnt know what i was doing wrong as i tried different colours and a tried different styles of jigging and i still couldnt temp them. But there are definitely a few squid around so you can give the weeds bed near barrenjoey headland a go and you should get a few. cheers

Thanks for the comments guys... Mondo the bream right now in pittwater are HOT...i was there three weeks ago and caught 4 bream in 4 cast on a run up tide...but some guys in another boat dicided to drive his boat to the area i was casting in and he put a crab pot down and no bream were to be seen. i am fishing in the middle of pittwater inline with barrenjeoy headland as i find the bream over the years have moved to the deeper water because of the weed problems in pittwater. choose either a nice run up or preferably a run down. make sure that the high or low tide is on sunrise this way you can fish the last 2hours of the tide before sunrise. when it comes to the rig i find that a heaver sinker is needed there as the current is strong at times. i use a 3 way swivel on all my rods with the side swivel for the sinker (short trace 10cm) and the bottom swivel for the trace line(1meter) small hooks is a must and i always have 2 hooks on the trace line. 1 hook is always running but also use this to hold your bait.i have never fialed to hook. The best biat to use at the moment is nippers or live worms but pichards and prawns always works aswell. also make sure to stay quiet and berley hard as soon as you get there. good luck cheers

mate i recomend you try palm beach ferry wharf at night. i was fishing further out near the mored boats and everytime i go there at night the squid are hot as. Sometimes you find there sitting on the bottom and sometimes there on the surface. when i was there i was cathing them by smashing the net on them as they are way to fast so it might be a good idea to take a prawning net if possible and i aslo find that they are on after 12 to about 4am. if possible put a light in the water or pointing on the water to attract theses things. hope my addvice helps read my report for a better understanding. Good luck on the jewies and most importantly the squid. cheers

Me and a cousin decided to leave Saturday afternoon for an overnight session on Pittwater and maybe the Hawkesbury. We left home at 5pm and got there at 6pm and in the water fishing by 6:30pm. At this stage the weather was holding up so we decided to fish the shallows of barrenjoey for bream. With the tide running fast my cousin manage to pick up a 50cm flattie on a pilly and yet no bream to be seen. We pulled anchor and decided to go through the night anchored in front of Palm Beach ferry wharf. With the anchor light on I had a peak at the water under and there was squid galore...i mean hundreds, so I ran over and grabbed the net to try and scope some but they were way to fast. I put a squid jig on in all colors and sizes and they were just ignoring it. So I tried different techniques. I was smashing the net hard on the water this way the squid were not fast enough to escape. The first smash resulted in 4 small squid all around 5-10cm, then I caught a few bigger ones around 10-15cm all in a couple of scoopes . then the bigger ones moved in but they were sitting a bit to far for me to net them.(I was using the hand net)so I tried a size 2 in pink squid jig and they just couldn’t resist. I caught another seven using a squid jig the biggest going 22cm just the hood. Now the squid were just way too hard to temp as there was plenty of pike and yellow under the boat and the squid had a liking to them. I had enough squid in the tank so I decided to catch a few yellow tails and pike (5 yellow tails, 1 pike) Now I was tired of catching bait so I decided to actually have a fish. First cast with a tube worms and BANG a nice bream is in the boat. Then my cousins turn and he nets another bream ½ hour after. They were the only 2 bream in the sea but Then I seen a blue swimmer on the surface and he was in the boat in no time. The light was appearing so it was time to go back for the bream. First cast and BANG bream…then my other rod was going off so a quickly pulled that one up. In 10min we pulled up 9 bream the biggest only going 34cm.we didn’t catch anymore because some #@$%#% moved in and anchored right in my berly trail. After this the sun was showing and no bream wear to be seen. I had 20 or so fresh squid in the tank and a couple of yellow tail and 1 pike in the tank so the decision was made to go to flint and still and hopefully pull up a jewie or two. Anchored and dropped two squid down and in 1 ½ i pulled up 4 shovel nose sharks…the biggest a bit over a meter. Then the tailor moved in and they were smashing the squid before it hit the bottom. The biggest went 43cm and I only kept 2. With only 3 squid left in the tank we moved back into Pittwater to see if the kingfish wanted to play. But there was nothing so we headed home.

Great report!! congrats cheers

Great report aleast you manage to get 2 reds. I went down with dad to wollongong and fished between 2 islands and only manage 2 reds 40cm and a 35cm and a heap of fish. Completely off topic but has there ever been a snapper social? i rekon this would be a good competion and some advice can be shared around as not many people on this site have masted the BIG reds as of yet cheers

nice fish congrats cheers