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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!!!!!!!!

Thanks mate, that link was really helpful. I do tune my drags but not like that. That way looks dead easy with less fiddling

Glenwood has carp of decent size too. Seen some real monsters amongst em.

Cool. Just wanted to know if it was your thoughts or based on something you've read or heard. Funny thing is i have never seen two ratings on a reel b4 so i cant say one way or the other. Is it a Daiwa or shimano phenomenon???

Is that a hypothesis or fact?

I am going up to the hunter valley this weekend. I am looking to do some land based flicking up there... I have ruled out St Clair and Glenbawn, too big to be flickin from shore. I want to flick a small river or creek for bass or maybe trout???? I am staying in pokolbin if that helps....somewhere close would be awesome. Any help would be appreciated!

Hi all, Without me having a look at a tackle store, is the Daiwa 1003 reels sized similar to 1000 or 1500 sized shimano's???? I am gonna get the new luvias off the net and i dont know if should get the 2004 or the 1003??? Im gonna use 4lb braid on it but im a little skeptical about small reels after my experinces with 1000 sized shimano's and the dredded airknot. Does the new 1003 get air knots?? any help would be appreciated.

I think that fish are always available in the bay. The trick is to move around till you find em. We caught a few lizards in our first spot and it would have been easy to stay and persist, maybe the fishing may have improved who knows, but our experience suggeted to move on to better concentrations of fish. Same with our second spot. We hit a few lizards as well but felt they were a little too far apart to be schooling. In the end our 3rd spot produced what we were looking for. Good healthy concentrations of fish that were aggresive. Sometimes though it doesnt work out that way! As they say some days are diamonds.....

well done mate.... we often pull two fish on the one rig. We use a keeper hook for whiting to help keep on the nippers in the surf. Its not uncommon to pull a whiting on the main lon shank hook and another on the keeper hook at the same time. And once....my cousin was once again fishing for whiting and hooked 2 fish on the same hook without a keeper hook at all. Both fish pierced through the mouth on the one shank. I near fell over when i saw it!

Hi Peoples, Just wanna get a quick report to you, even though it was saturday, but i reckon the fishing will pretty consistant for the next few weeks. Headed off to Botany....again... after our wicked session on the flathead two weeks ago we wanted to chase some other species and get a few fillets of lizard for the table as well. We hit the water at 530am and flicked the usual bridge spots for jew but once again, as has been the norm recently, we came up empty handed. After a brilliant start to the year on sp caught jew, we have been experiencing a dry spell the last two months????? In our efforts though my uncle landed a very healthy tailor of around two kegs which put up a good fight. On 8lb leader he was lucky it was lip hooked! In the usual banter that occurs in a boat my uncle was teasing me about not having caught a luderick on sp's. Well in true murphy's law style an hour later i hooked and landed a nice little scrapper. In your face uncle.....never underestimate fate LOL. We ventured off to find better fish and looked around the Brighton area. We landed a few resonable lizards but nothing to brag about....good fillet size fish. They were a little thin so we moved on again to the no boat zones along the runways. We tied on massive jigheads and 5-6inch minnows and hoiked the lures as close to the runways as possible. I was putting some serious jig action into my retrieve, so much so i have had a pain in my shoulder all weekend. Honestly sometimes i was ripping the lure straight off the jig head. Fact was this was producing the best results. Dad was doing a subtle retrieve and caught a couple flathead but my manic jiggin was drumming up all kinds of fish. For a two hour period we were connected to big tailor, scrappy little trevs, pesky bream and some real decent flathead. It was no surprise to see the others in the boat strating to put some effort into thier retrieves as well. It just seemed the order of the day. All up i reckon we landed over 30 flathead with 1 over 60 and 1 over 70(all but 10 released), 20 odd tailor....all well over legal(but all released), half dozen trevs , a few bream and a lone blacky.....now thats fishing for ya. Lovin may in the bay!

Not to be cryptic but i dunno the actual name of the area...i seem to give places my own names...in which we call this one shallow hal!!!!! Its in between woolooware bay and towra point????? just around from the leases. In fact any area in woolooware bay with patchy weed, sand and oyster coverd rocks is prime habitat. The key is ultra light presso's and cast ahead of the boat. Shallow water spooks fish obviously. Run out tide is usually better too. Yeah your right about the 59. I should be more thankful rather than blow it off, as a 59 could actually be a milestone for some.