Pre-buster Bream

[gibodfisho]

Needed a bream fix and had a quick session Saturday after work. Started throwing a Smith Camion on straight through fluro, and was quickly into some small fish. As i drifted along the shore some shady pockets said "throw popper" here. The bream responded by rushing out and miling around the popper but not hitting, with some good sized ones mixed in with them.

Committed to throwing the popper now I just had to figure out how they wanted the retrieve. After a bit of trial and error 3 big bloops pause, 3 suttle bloops pause then as soon as soon as htey were interested keep it moving without blooping brought a few undone and probably my biggest bream on popper .

Decided to cast the Camion again as the boat was over an open flat and it was taken almost straight away. The bream angled towards deeper water without taking any drag. I got a glimpse of it and saw it was a good fish and backed off the drag. The fish played the game and was fighting under the boat as it came up it was a big old bluenose, just under 40 to the fork but really deep and with big shoulders, it was a special fish.

The trebles were stuffed after this capture on the Camion so reached for a Dog X. Walking the dog the bream were on the job still, and another quality fish was landed. This topped a hot bite period with 4 bream from 1.1 kg -0.7kg coming in about 40 minutes.

Left to check another area out and things were not happening hear. Thinking of going into the main Harbour as the wind had started to drop off. No more than 30 seconds of thinking this the southerly hit and hit hard. It was impressive. Very glad I had not gone into the Harbour proper or out the Heads.

Hope anyone who got caught out in those winds made it back safe. Got 1 more bream after the change but it was tricky just putting on a soft plastic.

There was some entertainment back at the boat ramp

Cheers Dave