Couldn’t buy a bream if I tried

[nutsaboutfishing]

I thought with the weather warming up I might start chasing some bream on plastics. Got to  Glades Bay about 2 hours before the high. First cast into the drain I feel some resistance, it’’s gotta be a snag right? After all when was the last time I caught a fish first cast? Never. Then the snag starts to fight. Soon I’ve got a little flattie about 25 cm didn’t bother measuring.

Cast into the drain again. Definitely a snag this time after all have I ever gotten two with the first two casts? Again the snag starts to fight. Pretty soon it’s two small flatties from the first two casts. For a moment I considered calling it quits with a 100% strike rate!! But I really wanted a bream.

 Kept casting another couple of hours. Got three more flatties largest two going 47 and 50cm. Learning how to fish 6lb leader better and getting a better feel for the amount of drag needed. 
 

in the end I probably wouldn’t have traded either of the big flatties for a bream, but the  smaller ones??

Edited October 12, 2020 by nutsaboutfishing

[XD351]

A couple of lizards is better than nothing at all !

I just watched a video on YouTube by Windsor bait and tackle and he pulled a few bream out of the canal around iron cove yesterday  and got busted off by a big bream so they are around .

One thing he keeps mentioning is the schools of mullet and he follows them along fishing under them . If the canal drains right out at low tide fishing the last quarter of the run out where it drains into the bay would be a good technique for flathead and jewies - sooner or later anything swimming in that canal has to come out and the predators will be there waiting for them !

[Rebel]

Well done. Keep on Truckin.

Cheers.

[Yowie]

Flatties are better than no fish. Do you eat them or release them?

[cornerjohn]

1 hour ago, Yowie said:

Flatties are better than no fish. Do you eat them or release them?

Surely that far up the Parramatta River it's catch and release? I've always heard that anything west of the bridge is no good for eating

[nutsaboutfishing]

6 hours ago, Yowie said:

Flatties are better than no fish. Do you eat them or release them?

Definitely release.

[Yowie]

2 minutes ago, nutsaboutfishing said:

Definitely release.

Ok.

[nutsaboutfishing]

On 10/12/2020 at 4:06 PM, XD351 said:

A couple of lizards is better than nothing at all !

I just watched a video on YouTube by Windsor bait and tackle and he pulled a few bream out of the canal around iron cove yesterday  and got busted off by a big bream so they are around .

One thing he keeps mentioning is the schools of mullet and he follows them along fishing under them . If the canal drains right out at low tide fishing the last quarter of the run out where it drains into the bay would be a good technique for flathead and jewies - sooner or later anything swimming in that canal has to come out and the predators will be there waiting for them !

Just watched them as well. Might hit there area up on Friday. Thanks for letting me know