AlbertW

a little unweighted hook and bread is all you need, chuck a few pieces out as berley and they'll swarm over it

Could be the sinker moving up and down as you twitched, which picked away at your knot, was a pretty common occurence when I fished with bait and used a blood knot to connect my running sinker rigs, one slight mix is to add a small bead over the knot

Hey all, This report has been long, long overdue since @DerekD took me out last sunday (Sorry Derek, I got busy with my engineering report and my role as a medic for my cadets). A bit of background info is that next year around the september holidays I have been very, very fortunate to be able to take a trip up to Darwin out on a live aboard bluewater charter for five days. To prepare for this trip I have started to save up my money and applied for a job at the big 'conda so I'll be working throughout the entire christmas holidays in order to hopefully afford some good gear. With the last bit of money I had saved up I was lucky enough to pick up a shimano ocea plugger for around $680. We met up around 8am and got straight into it. I broke out the new Ocea Plugger and Derek was generous enough to lend me his Daiwa BG. We started off simple with only casting some heavy poppers. The first thing I had to work on was my casting, I had gotten lazy since the last time I saw Derek and my casting from had deterioated. I had gotten sloppy and was out of rhythmn but hopefully Derek has drilled it into me now. We then covered floating and sinking stickbaits, rhythmithically casting at different locations in order and then working it back. Afterwords we discussed what to do next over some pie. Since we both had the aftern0on off we decided to fit in a small topwater session. We met up at a nearby sandflat and Derek started out with a slipperydog whilst I continued using the berkley popper that had been working so well for me. The whiting and bream were feeding on little prawns, so I knew my lure wasn't going to be a perfect presentation of that but Derek's sure was. Half an hour later Derek hooked up on a decent 23cm whiting on the slippery dog. It looked like that the bite had turned off and we both had stuff to do later so we cut out the session short. Once again Derek, thank you so much for taking me out for a lesson again, especially because you were generous enough to let me borrow your reel and lures (Btw if the nomad popper isn't working properly or breaks, let me know and I'll cover it). The casting is definietly something I'll have to work on and I'll try my hardest to not get lazy again and break up the rhythm. I have also been doing some homework and research about all of my gear and I'll let you know once I finished compiling everything, but right now I'm looking at setting the outfit as a pe 6 outfit with pe 6 ocea 8 braid and black magic tough trace. I have also looked at the technical stuff like transporting the rods but I will let you know in the summer. Thanks again Derek! Albert

True haha, I've also just picked up a prawn walker from <retailer removed> today as I handed in my resume

Maybe tie on a crab fly or the light cranka crab for the bream 😆

That salmon took me on four runs, once to structure on the left, then to structure on the right, then it went back out to open water and then the last diving straight down. definietly gave me a sore arm for a couple minutes haha

Its the berkley pop 50

High tide I think

Hey All, Was planning on hunting for a big bream on Sunday but first decided try the new popper I got and maybe get my first fish on topwater. First cast on it I had a bream come up and hit it twice, with me foul hooking it on the second hit. Due to me foul hooking it the little trebles slipped out and I lost it. The next few casts resulted in my first ever landed fish on a topwater, a legal tailor. I then hopped in a call with @DerekD and on my next cast something exploded on the little popper. It took me for a total of 4 runs which I had guessed it was a salmon. I somehow managed to pull a 45cm salmon up a 1.5m wall and took a quick pic and chucked it back. No luck on the bream that night so I got some dinner and went home. Thanks for reading

The bass will but i have foul hooked a carp and it took off like a rocket

Yes it is allowed to fish there, however I wouldn't put anything that comes out of the weir or the parra in my mouth as the weir smells like stinky aquarium water 😂. The carp are there and will just generally take bread like what Shroom used, sometimes the bass will also take bread.

Legend!

Hey All, I'm looking for a new snapper rod preferabbly 3-5kg, 7 foot and can cast around 10-30g. Unfortunately in a freak accident of some sort my atomic arrowz rod just snapped in half out of nowhere, I had made a cast and suddenly half of the rod followed my plastic into the water. Does anyone have an idea on how?

Hey Raiders, Just thought I’d put up a brief report on something that just happened which involved a donkey sized bream. I wasn’t planning on fishing tonight but I packed a rod and some gulp plastics just in case so I got to the wharf at around 7pm ish. First thing I noticed was that there were jelly prawns skipping around on the surface and occasionally a little bit 10ish cm tailor would come up and smash one. I was using a 3inch gulp paddletail with a slightly larger hook so I wasn’t hooking up on the tailor very often. However I dropped my plastic down to the bottom and as I winded my slack in I felt that I had foul hooked a tailor, and as I was bringing it up, I kid you not, a 45-50cm donkey of a bream comes up, catches a few milliseconds of air and takes off the lower quarter of the tailor. I hadn’t realised that Sydney bream could be this ferocious as in one of my past trips to the Gold Coast i had made a new friend and I fished with his family using live 10-15cm herring for trevally but at night the bream would come out and absolutely demolish the live bait. So could this be a reoccurring thing with bream where they get a lot more aggressive at night? I will be returning to the spot on Tuesday with proper gear in order to target these fish Thanks for reading, Albert

I actually have the halco version of those haha, not sure if they’d work quite as well but that opens up an opportunity to fish the deeper water

Good to see that bobbin head is producing again, I grew up fishing there and had the odd little bream and snapper but a couple years ago it went silent and I’d soak a prawn for hours and not even get a bite. I should revisit it again with lures now haha

Unfortunately the situation is looking grim, I’m getting rained out and the wind is howling, there were no signs of trout at the entrance of the river so now I’m headed off to get something warm to eat and maybe fish one of the Rotorua lakes, @Volitan any suggestions?

Cheers bro, I’m still only 15 so no wine for me haha, however I really enjoyed the blueberry white tea which was an import from the US. I’m on my way to some trout in the waihou river and hopefully 🤞🤞🤞will be back with a report.

Hey everyone, just got back to the hotel and am finished for today, ended up with 6 kahwai and a snapper which is pretty amazing for me. All of them except for one kahwai were caught on the gulp nemesis but now I’m all out again . Thanks for reading, Albert

Good stuff mate, you gotta try the gulp plastics like i am haha, salmon and snapper will just hit them like crazy

Hey all, Was planning on going for trout today but my mum didn’t sleep well and was still awake at 4 in the morning. So at 8am I picked up my plastics and went off to try some new spots. The morning ended with 2 kahwai ( Aussie salmon) being caught, I had to leave to get some more gulps as the kahwai, even though only around 30-40 cm would swallow the entire plastics along with my jighead. Due to that another trip to the tackle store was in order and boy had I just realised how pricey stuff was. It was 14 NZD just for a packet of gulps and jigheads were also 13 NZD. Anyways, I picked out another pack of 4 inch nemesis curl tails and back to the spot I went. Another two kahwai were landed and that was that. I’m currently at a wine yard with my parents having some wine tasting whilst I’m sipping on some blueberry tea. Hopefully I’ll have some time to fish when I get back as well. Unfortunately no photos as the salmon were flopping all over the mud and I prioritised getting them back into the water as some of them were bleeding thanks for reading Albert

Update another snapper was caught 😁