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Most jew are hooked in reatively fisher freindly areas so 6-10lb braid is enuf. I use either 14lb or 20lb fluro leader depending if the fish are timid or not. I also run a 3-5kg stick. A 2-4kg would do the job of landing a jew, even up to 15kg, but the heavy jighead and lures mean i can cast furhter and have better control with the heavier stick. Really any lure will work. Its more a matter of finding the fish and frustrating them to bite than anything else

Where do you fish??? Where do you Live??? I can point you in the right direction but i need to know where you fish? or are going to fish?

Im a full sp convert so i reckon you should give em a go! I have fished side by side with live poddy fishos and outfished em too many times for it to be fluke. Its not that sp's are more deadly, but they do resemble a live bait too, its the matter of cast-retrieve that allows you to cover more ground which i think is the vital factor. Try 1000/2500 sized reels with 4 or 6lb braid, whack on some 10lb leader, flick a 2-4kg 7' graphite rod and you will be almost there. If your starting out i reckon you should use sps around the 3" range. This will attract all size lizards as well as bycatch of bream, maybe mulloway, whiting etc. In this way its brakes the monotony of catchin one species. Try Atomic 3" Jerk Minnows in various colours. They are the best allround sp of all.

If you get outta the main river the bream fishing is awesome atm! A word of advice is 'no current'

talkin about big tailor down south at the moment.... A mate got one 91cms on saturday. It weighed in at 7kgs. If there ar fish like that around doenst matter the lb leader. 10lb wll do most things in an estuary.

Mate, Honestly every sp in the bag will catch jews. As cephlapod said its the action you put into it PLUS, and here is the clincher.... using them when jew are present....cant catch whats not there! Id consentrate on finding the fish and knockin on the door with just about anything. Ive had success on 3" grubs, stickbaits all the way up to 8"shad and minnows???? Every colour too. If i had to choose 1 though the 4" Power Minnows seem to be the most consistent producer especially in pumpkinseed.

well lets see; I have every size and colour of Atomic jerk minnows (3 and 6 inch), every colour 3 1/4" paddletails, every colour 3" fat grubs and every colour 2" grubs.... I also have at least 5 back up packets of 3" jerk minnows in each colour. I have numerous Gulps and 2", 3"& 4" Power minnows (every colour) plus a variety of hawgs and other various Berkley lures. I have squidgys comin out of my ears...mostly shads and grubs. Plus i got 30 odd packets of the new Pro range. Add to this stickbaits from Mojo, Slug-goes, and other lunker city lures. Plus shitty stuff like firebaits, kokodas, tsunamis and manns, oh yes i forgot to mention Storms as well. I got 100 packs for $3 each???? never used any of them. I know i forgot some but the reality is ive spent an absolute fortune. I estimate over $20k easy...who knows??? It hurts to think about it really. Especially when it doenst include all HB's and tackle!

Nice work mate, Good looking fish!

Damn straight. But in the back of my mind i harbour the optimism we might actually experience it again....i hope

Sorry mate, Its a magazine! Its the June Winter long edition with Bushy on the front cover! I wrote a location piece on the area and covered the fishing year round. The section on big blue nose winter bream should be most relevant. Yeah mate we were on a boat. Wouldnt know what to do without one!!!!!! We did move around a bit but due to local knowledge we had a good idea where to go. Maybe a 1km total travel if you wee to put a blanket over em. So pretty condensed.

Mate, go to berowra waters....see this months fishing world for all the details you need.

Just a little supprised they are on the chew with so much fresh. I think that is why they were biting well. These fish were caught in water between 1 -3 meters deep and under overhanging mangrove branches, real tight to shore. The water is a little discoloured but i wouldnt say murky. The fish arnt as shy and eat food washed down from the run-off. My guess is they are resident fish but as jewgaffer says there migratory fish????? Who bloody knows???

Sweet mate, hope to see you there. I run a 5.5m Full Boar. If you see us come and say hi! My mate lives down that way and says the same thing. The fishin is tough but he got some good fish yesterday, not many numbers but some good size. Hope we can repeat the process:) If you want a better run down of our bream tactics read 'Luring with Bait' in March edition of Fishing World. If you cant get your hands on it PM me for more details.

Cheers boys....i'm still buzzin. Don't think im gonna get much done at work today, im already daydreamin about the long weekend. I got a tourny comin up in 3 weeks at sussex so i hope i havent pissed the bream gods off. Just one of those big bream will do in the comp???

Hi All, Having a very understanding finacee i was lucky enuf to get two fishing days out of 3 over the long weekend. After the awesome sessions we have been having in Botany i have been itchin to get back there and tangle with some quality mixed bags. I got the weather report which said sat was going to be windy as hell and showers so a call was made to change tack and head to the relative protection of the Hbury, much to the behest of my gfather. As the day unfolded it was apparent seabreeze got it wrong....again, and i was hearing all the banter about my 'wrong' call. The morning started slow and bream were hard to find. A move was in order. Our move was only a few hundred meters but we found the bream....and in a big way. In the following 4 hours my dad, pop and i were having an absolute ball on thumper bream fished unweighted on bait. No joke i havent seen quality bream like this for at least 10 years. My decision to fish the Hbury was a least vindicated a little as the old fellas were hootin and hollerin like prepubesent teens. Music to my ears. We caught well over 40 bream and over 10 were kilo fish...the kinda fish that makes a lure fishos mouth water if they were in a tourny..... Now onto Monday. If we thought sat was a pearler the best was yet to come. Once again gun shy from what seabreeze was telling us we retreated to the Hbury after our killer session on Sat to see if we could put a relative greenhorn, matt the plumber, onto some real bream. I was with Orsy, who he and i declare fishing unweighted baits for bream our favourite technique and after a slow morning knew the tide had to rise before anything was going to happen. We flicked sp's in the meantime a landed some nice lizards to keep the interest. In the process i hooked up to a nice bream which i called for a small jew. Caught deep it had a mean streak and at a kilo was a indication of things to come. As the tide topped out the action heated up. Bream were lining up to hit our baits and by no means were these fish ordinary. Like Sat the fish were hungry winter blue nose battlers that put some serious bend in our 2kg sticks. Drags were screaming everywhere as triple hookups were not uncommon. The session was hotter than Sat and once again the kilo fish were playing ball...the best going 42cms but another 5 going 40cms, and a host of 38's. How good is that. If you reckon i sound excited its because we landed well in excess of 70 bream yesterday...believe it or not its up to you but if i hadnt witnessed it first hand i would have reservations as well. And thats a conservative estimate! In two sessions in the Hbury we caught over 120 bream. If you reckon the system is dead then think again. The place is alive and kickin. It just the old techniques are dead in the water and new techiques and presentations are needed nowadays... Just ask my gfather who has fished the system for 40 years... Now he going out to buy an electric motor?????? Man i love fishin!!!!!!!!