Top Dogs hit the Hacking

[dwan8337]

Hi Guys,

The Hacking is live and well!

Just a bit of a forward: Earlier during the week, one of us mentioned something along the lines of ABT (Asian Bream Tournament). Having never targeted bream on anything other than the trust old Pillie cubes, research had to be done. Countless hours were spent during the week researching what the best soft plastic choices there are; sizes/colour/jigheads/techniques, also known as "addicted to iFish & AFC dvd's"

Despite gathering extensive knowledge on exactly which lures we need, come shopping night, we still practically raided every single squidgy model you could find on the BCF catalogue.

The day started better than any working day although we both forgot about daylight saving, well in Adrian's case didn't understand daylight saving. Understandable as it is touching on rocket science.

Arrived at Swallow Rock Ramp at 6:30am on the water within 5min.

First cast...TAILOR! of 15cm. Second cast...TAILOR! 12cm. wow the hacking is on fire just kidding...

The tailor in this system seems to be of plague proportions, any rock wall you find with a bit of shade will see your soft plastic get totally destroyed before Mr.Bream can even have a look at it.

Being the Asian Bream Tournament, Adrian got stingy and didn't want to lose anymore soft plastics so on went the Yakka coloured blade.

Boy do these Blades catch fish! his first cast saw him onto a near legal sized whiting. After that, it was non stop undersized snapper/tailor and even leatherjackets. Basically, any fish that didn't contribute to the scoreboard, he catches.

Moving onto the private moorings like pros do, having no idea how to work plastics, we tried to implement the Japanese Egi Style to these squidgy plastics to a considerable amount of success. Here are some of the more notable catches of the day. All fish was released prior to the photo. Oh and lost a sizeable Kingy because someone couldn't be bothered retying frayed line...

Okay back to the report there are a fair few salmon busting up along the edges of the South West Arm throughout the day. Huge whiting (40cm+) can be seen cruising around the shallow waters around the lilli pilli Bathes bend. We didn't bring our pump so can't tell you if they were taking nippers or what, but they seemed to be uninterested in any of the soft plastic presentations.

Cannot wait till Easter long weekend! hope to see a heap of raiders on the water next weekend.

Cheers

[J Hooked]

Hey Dwan

Top report and great effort.

Bring on the long weekend.

[OzMacca]

Great report Dwan.

Cheers Tom

[Krispy !]

Some nice fish there, how is the water quality?

[Formosan]

Good report boys ., since it was ABT did u catch any breams?

[quintrex480]

good one dwan, top report! but where was my invite to the ABT?

Edited April 1, 2012 by quintrex480

[dwan8337]

good one dwan, top report! but where was my invite to the ABT?

Thanks mate! I see the fish you catch! imagine what you will do the poor little bream haha! I'll send out the invites when we're pro and know we can't lose haha

[dwan8337]

Good report boys ., since it was ABT did u catch any breams?

it was unorthodox but it worked, we jagged them anywhere from their backside, along the body, to the cheeks. Anywhere but the mouth. A bream is a bream eh? haha

[dwan8337]

Some nice fish there, how is the water quality?

Cheers, still a bit diluted compared to what it usually looks like, definitely gets better as you approach Gannon's and Lilli Pilli. Think it may take a few more days of clear weather to get the upstream stuff out.

[Twinfisher 4.9]

Hey, was impressed on how "All fish was released prior to the photo." How do you do that? Sorry only joking