StunnedMullet Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Hello Raiders! Just got back from a 7 day stint in sunny Mallacoota! The first couple of days down there the wind was howling, and there were white caps on the lake. Not the best conditions for a v nose punt! I still managed to get out and have a flick around the bridge down the road from the log cabin me and the missus stayed in. This was a landbased affair. I happened to have some bread in the car so I burleyed up after showing the missus how to drive an ecogear sx 40f with her new ballistix rod she got for Christmas. Boy was I in for a shock! More than 50 black bream came running from cover bold as brass and started scoffing the bread down! 50 per cent of these looked to be over 30 cms too! I gave up on the lures and put on a small hook with some bread on it, and had a crack at polaroiding these bream. Totally immersed now in trying to land one of these big boys (I had never caught a black bream before) I failed to notice Hayley had got bored of my cursing over dropped fish and ventured to the other side of the bridge and started flicking her ecogear around. I was then interrupted by an urgent "babe!" and I knew by the sound of her voice she was onto something. I dropped my rod and was over there in a flash, and sure enough, she had a nice fat bream with the sx40f hanging out of its gob! " I cast under the bushes like you said" she exclaimed happily- I was so proud that she actually listened when I explained to her the importance of fishing near structure. This is the bush that hayley cast under and got the hookup My burleying also attracted schools of around 2-300 garfish which became a bit of a pain in the end. I didnt bother catching any as I was focusing on the bream. We went out a couple of times in the tinny over the next few days, but only for a few hr sessions at a time. In the end we caught a few flatties, and released over 100 Black bream (and ate 6 or 7). People, if you ever wanted to go somewhere to practice catching Bream on lure, this is the place to go. They are there in plague proportions. It was amazing to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flattyman Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Good stuff... Sounds like you had a great trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnv Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Great report there, sounds like u & the mrs had a great time with some good fish well done cheers john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsswordfisherman Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Great to see the women fishing, good one Hayley mrsswordfisherman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brendong Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Mate how good is that cricket score numbers in Black bream....were you chucking just placcy's....we normally do most of the damage in 'coota' on blades.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusky_Chaser Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Yeah shes not a bad old place. Well done on your trip mate. Sounds like a great time was had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FISHARK Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Good report mate sounds as if you guys had a good time !!! Nice amount of garfish hey ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Good time had by the sound of things. Wish I could get my wife to come fishing. It is either too hot, too cold, too windy, too sunny, too ...... well, you get the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Those bream look mean! Well done on a great trip!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StunnedMullet Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 Mate how good is that cricket score numbers in Black bream....were you chucking just placcy's....we normally do most of the damage in 'coota' on blades.... We used bait, plastics and hardbodies. I must admit I spend a lot of time sight fishing for the bigger bream with the bread. I never knew you could catch them on bread before. And the sight of the hundreds of garfish milling around was pretty cool. Another time I'd like to go back with a couple of buddies and put in some proper hrs and commitment with the plastics and vibes. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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