First taste of Tassy

[outdoordan]

I'm working in tassy for a few weeks. Even though i don't get the luxury of alot of time off i managed to throw a lure or two around this morning. I managed two Black Bream. the first one went 36 and the second 42. It was awesome sight casting to BIG bream in a foot of gin clear water. Getting them to bight was a differant story. Of the couple of dozen fish i cast to i got 3 hits and two hookups. Some of the fish would have been nudging 50 cms and were as thick as a beer can It was insane fishing! They are mega spooky in ankle deep water though.

As the tide receaded, i moved to some deeper. I had a couple of follows by some truely monsterous bream, but inticing them to strike was a difficult as tempting their shallow water mates. i did get one hookup but it powered off and busted me up on some knarly mussel coved rocks without me getting a turn of the handle. I also came across a large sea run rainbow trout who must have had lock jaw. man, i wanna get one of them things..

I fished this spot for about an hour untill the sun was well and truely up, and managed no less than 36 flathead from 100m of shoreline. unfortunately the biggest only went a modest 36cm. but having never caught a sand flathead it was still a bit of fun.

I will not have much in the way of good tides coinsiding with an opportunity to fish for a while, but i'll keep trying to crack the tassie code and keep y'all posted.

[Jewhunter]

Awesome mate!

I want to catch some of those, they look unreal.

It looks nice & warm down there!!

Cheers,

Grant.

[Stillrockn]

Nice Report Young Dan

Looks a little fresh lol .. PM me when your back .

Tight Lines Tom

[arpie]

Well done, Dan!! I saw some big bream when there this time last year (Hobart.) Bream aren't commercially targetted down there & are thick as! Next trip down, I will take some rods & lures! Good luck on those trout!

Roberta

[bassboy888]

Some great fish there Dan, I can only imagine how finicky those bream and sea trout are. Those 2 bream you got though would have made it worth it! Sound like horses

[Centrepin]

• Hay Dan.
• Well done on the Bream.
• Tassie is a wonder. I can't wait to have the time to explore it properly

Geoff

[Yowie]

The legal size for flatties in Tassie is 30cm, as they don't grow too big down there. The bream grow bigger than the flatties.

[tide'n'knots]

wow dan thats a cracker bream your holding, even though they were spooky they certainly look worth the hard work.

I wonder how a floating piece of bread with a small hook hidden inside would work?

pete.

Edited January 31, 2013 by tide'n'knots

[brendong]

That's a stonker, they do get to jumbo size down there. From memory Coyote got one that went 46, doing the same thing walking the flats and chucking hard bodies...must get down there some day....I can see why they run ABT's there.