MannY Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Target: Flathead & Squid Got a brilliant idea I'll buy cooked prawns, I can use it as bait and if tough gets going I'll eat it. Practical thinking I got down south and the wind was whistling .. the water choppy and no squid, so I tried my luck to collect some prawns... no prawns except one in the middle the rocks as I was walking back. I told the prawn you're one lucky bugger cause I'm letting you live today! A few guys were fishing, I asked and they had caught nothing. So I changed my strategic idea from flatty to perhaps breams? Now I was getting hungry, but what is opened at 3:30am in the morning? nothing close by I found a spot out of the wind. Gear out and a couple beers & bait in the Esky, I was ready to fish. I started to rig up, opened a beer .. hungry, I opened the cooked prawns .. oh man they tasted good! beer and prawns are a perfect couple. Feeling silly put on some old bread and pulled in a nice legal bream.. excited my cooked prawn resources went straight in the gabber... Every cast I looked sincerely at the cooked prawn and said "no" you're all mine! .. put on fresh prawn and sent the cast. Sadly in the hour I finished eating my 1\2kg of cooked prawn!! and couldn't test if cooked prawn is equally as good as fresh prawns. As first light approached I reached my bag limit of breams, when I noticed a ocky. Put on a prawn.. he messed around a bit and then smashed it! First time that I've seen a ocky attack a prawn, pretty cool stuff. Pulled him in, he was huge. I didn't keep him as I don't know how to kill them properly. I didn't get my target species, but a ocky and bag of breams was just fine indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damos Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Too funny MannY. I think I'd be in the same boat as you, I can't go past a nice cooked prawn. Be nothing left for the fish if I took them along. Congrats on the catch as well, nice little haul of bream there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mossy050 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Nice story mate and great catch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camo1808 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Cracker story mate and some stonker bream by the looks of it. Love that you cracked a beer at 4am. Thats true aussie style. Well done mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harold Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I agree, cooked prawns are for people. Great catch and yes a beer out of an esky at 4am whilst fishing is as Aussie as it gets. Big octopus there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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