brendong Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 (edited) Last Thursday Coyote and I traveled down to Merimbula with a two day booking of a South Coast estuary charter on the Friday and Saturday. Target Species 'BIG' Black and Yellow fin Breambo's in the Malacoota system. Coyote and I have fished with the same charter guy who only uses hardy's, softy's, poppers and blades but we'd never fished the dead of winter so we really didn't know what to expect.... Day 1 Up at 6 am and ffffrigin ffffreezing. Launched at 8 am. Full noise in 4 degree temps means a wind chill factor of somewhere sub zero, at least that’s what it felt like. (check how cold it was on the footage of Never really fishing with Blades before we had to learn a new technique but it didn't take long to get the jist and before long we were both opening the account with solid breambo's. In fact, that opening day we nailed 14 breambo's the top 5 weighing in at a combined weight of 5.1kg and heaps of flatty's too for what we felt was going to be the best of the two days Coyote was able to upgrade his PB with two monster blacks that both went 43cm Day 2 Same time start, same launch time, but a little colder....bbrrrrrrrrrrr Slower start and blades not really working so we swapped to placcy's and the action fired almost all day.... 23 breambo's with the top 5 going 5.4kg, plus heaps of flatty's and a few 2kg sambo's just to break things up a little (2 kg Sambo's on 3lb gear = heaps of fun) (Sambo video) I managed a pb of a 40 cm black 2 day summary = 65 legal fish......37 Bream (90% of breambo's 33cm plus which is absolutely crazy particularly for two Botany Bay boys), 22 flathead 3 sambo's, 1 blackfish, 1 taylor and 1 tarwhine Drove back to Lake Conjola spent the night and fished Lake Conjola in the morning..... Day 3 - Lake Conjola Back to reality with a thud but never the less we both manager 50cm plus flatty's on placcy's, Coyote smacked a cracking taylor on a surface popper, plus we scored a solid 30 cm breambo and 28 cm tarwhine (biggest we’ve seen) We've both said that its the best fishing we've ever had and are going to see if we can top that next year but we aren't holding our breath.... All fish we released to fight another day apart from a couple of Flattys taken by the charter operator....we think he end them though.... Edited July 16, 2009 by Poddy Trapper
Blood Knot Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 Great Fishing some thumper bream there. Got to try that Malacoota one day John
tide'n'knots Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 thats a great trip boys!! awesome breamies there! sensational. Pete.
squid hunter Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 mate what thumper breambos and nice chopper awesome trip gotta love the south coast regards Squid Hunter
micksfishn Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 5 kg+ bags nice work guys gotta be stoked with that mick
Ray R Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 G'day fellas, mate that was a very interesting read, great pics of your fish and what a trip it was, I wouldn't care about the cold with fishing that good. Congrats guys and bet you can't wait till the next trip .. Cheers..
Hodgey Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 What a spectacular trip boys! I thought your text message was impressive, but to see them in color on the forum... un-bloody-believable! Mallacoota is a great system. Loved the report mate, and congrats to Josh on his PB as well Cheers Ian
Richard Warren Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 Theres some impressive fish in that lot. Sounds like you would have forgotten about the cold as soon as you started getting quality fish like that.
glennmreid Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 Well done guys. Some huge bream in that catch. Looks like the big winter bream are around.
james7 Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 Fantastic report! What a great time you must of had despite the cold! There are some great bream and flatties there. Any time you get five bream at 5kg+ That's "big bream" consistentency! Well done! I've been to Malacoota, but never fished there. It's an amazing system. Cheers Peter
Keflapod Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Hey poddy trapper, Very interesting and bloody well done ! How cold was the water you were fishing in? Were all the fish around rock structure / wood pylons, sunken trees, holes or near the river mouth ? I'm just trying to work out some common denominators for winter bream fishing in Botany Bay. It's good to have inshore options when the seas are too big outside, ie more that 1m swell is too big !
brendong Posted July 2, 2009 Author Posted July 2, 2009 (edited) Hey all, Thanks for the comments.... How cold was the water you were fishing in? Were all the fish around rock structure / wood pylons, sunken trees, holes or near the river mouth ? I'm just trying to work out some common denominators for winter bream fishing in Botany Bay. It's good to have inshore options when the seas are too big outside, ie more that 1m swell is too big ! Water temp....not real sure but quite cold All in the shallows up river... They were predominantly black bream and given 99% of Botany Bay breambo's are yellows, i think their habbits might be a little different.... Plus the Malacoota system is a bit of a freak of a system and just seems to fire at times.... Still I think trying the shallows rather than the struture in the cooler water temps is the go....And I'm defineitly a blade convert now..... Edited July 2, 2009 by Poddy Trapper
jahajo Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Sounds like you guys had a great time and caught some amazing fish Nice work Hazza
arpie Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Awesome fishing, boys! Terrific pics too!! Hmmm, not too fussed on the cold weather tho! Well done Roberta
Supertan Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 sound like you guys will be there alot more often. no need to wait for summer.
diver1 Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Last Thursday Coyote and I traveled down to Merimbula with a two day booking of a South Coast estuary charter on the Friday and Saturday. Target Species 'BIG' Black and Yellow fin Breambo's in the Malacoota system. Coyote and I have fished with the same charter guy who only uses hardy's, softy's, poppers and blades but we'd never fished the dead of winter so we really didn't know what to expect.... Day 1 Up at 6 am and ffffrigin ffffreezing. Launched at 8 am. Full noise in 4 degree temps means a wind chill factor of somewhere sub zero, at least that’s what it felt like. Never really fishing with Blades before we had to learn a new technique but it didn't take long to get the jist and before long we were both opening the account with solid breambo's. In fact, that opening day we nailed 14 breambo's the top 5 weighing in at a combined weight of 5.1kg and heaps of flatty's too for what we felt was going to be the best of the two days Coyote was able to upgrade his PB with two monster blacks that both went 43cm Day 2 Same time start, same launch time, but a little colder....bbrrrrrrrrrrr Slower start and blades not really working so we swapped to placcy's and the action fired almost all day.... 23 breambo's with the top 5 going 5.4kg, plus heaps of flatty's and a few 2kg sambo's just to break things up a little (2 kg Sambo's on 3lb gear = heaps of fun) I managed a pb of a 40 cm black 2 day summary = 65 legal fish......37 Bream (90% of breambo's 33cm plus which is absolutely crazy particularly for two Botany Bay boys), 22 flathead 3 sambo's, 1 blackfish, 1 taylor and 1 tarwhine Drove back to Lake Conjola spent the night and fished Lake Conjola in the morning..... Day 3 - Lake Conjola Back to reality with a thud but never the less we both manager 50cm plus flatty's on placcy's, Coyote smacked a cracking taylor on a surface popper, plus we scored a solid 30 cm breambo and 28 cm tarwhine (biggest we’ve seen) We've both said that its the best fishing we've ever had and are going to see if we can top that next year but we aren't holding our breath.... All fish we released to fight another day apart from a couple of Flattys taken by the charter operator....we think he end them though.... bloody huge bream!!
offchops Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 well done guys my bro lives at merimbula what a great fishing area hope to move there soon
jewgaffer Posted July 5, 2009 Posted July 5, 2009 Top fishing Poddy Trapper...... Wonboyn River and the lake fishes extremely well and like Malacoota it's just that little bit too far for Melbourne and Sydney people to travel too....Sydney people generally go south as far as Bermagui or Eden for their holidays and don't go as far as Womboyn and Malacoota all that often, Melbourne people mainly only go as far as Lakes Entrance which also fishes very well but gets a bit crowded during holidays.... Cheers jewgaffer
brendong Posted July 16, 2009 Author Posted July 16, 2009 Took an eternity but I've added some video footage...check the Day 2 section - I told you it was cold we all look like michellen men...
jewgaffer Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Top fishing Poddy Trapper...... Wonboyn River and the lake fishes extremely well and like Malacoota it's just that little bit too far for Melbourne and Sydney people to travel too....Sydney people generally go south as far as Bermagui or Eden for their holidays and don't go as far as Womboyn and Malacoota all that often, Melbourne people mainly only go as far as Lakes Entrance which also fishes very well but gets a bit crowded during holidays.... Cheers jewgaffer There's some nice fish there alright and a nice video too.... Poddy trapper I must have had Mallocoota on my mind not realising that you fished at Merimbulla and did very well Cheers jewgaffer
Luke1 Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Top report, and TOP BLOODY BREAM, bloody thumpers mate, good on ya.
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