Berowra 6/11/2022

[slothparade]

Went berowera yesterday, launched at 7am. Worked along the rock walls with a sugar pen and had the bigger bream I've ever seen launch out of the water after the lure. Never knew they could do that. There were also plenty of prawns busting up, just motored along with the net out and scooped them up, they were all released, just having a bit of fun. 

Went to a new spot to do some crabbing. Saw a hilarious tour group, funniest thing was when the group leader goes "someone (won't disclose they're name") stop sleeping, then sane person, come back" just kind of funny how someone was able to fall asleep while 'paddeling'. 

Anyways, had motor problems all day so wasn't able to do much fishing, but was still a nice day out. Will be picking up the pots on Monday.  

[Yowie]

You can keep the prawns, good for live bait, or for eating.

If there is something on the surface that a bream is interested in, then it will head up at speed, and as you saw, launch itself out of the water during the attack. Not intentional to do so, just having a go before the 'food' swims away.

[Rebel]

Great report.

Well done.

[Duffy75]

5 hours ago, slothparade said:

Went berowera yesterday, launched at 7am. Worked along the rock walls with a sugar pen and had the bigger bream I've ever seen launch out of the water after the lure. Never knew they could do that. There were also plenty of prawns busting up, just motored along with the net out and scooped them up, they were all released, just having a bit of fun. 

Went to a new spot to do some crabbing. Saw a hilarious tour group, funniest thing was when the group leader goes "someone (won't disclose they're name") stop sleeping, then sane person, come back" just kind of funny how someone was able to fall asleep while 'paddeling'. 

Anyways, had motor problems all day so wasn't able to do much fishing, but was still a nice day out. Will be picking up the pots on Monday.  

How's the water quality? Did you end up getting any crabs?

[slothparade]

1 hour ago, Yowie said:

You can keep the prawns, good for live bait, or for eating.

If there is something on the surface that a bream is interested in, then it will head up at speed, and as you saw, launch itself out of the water during the attack. Not intentional to do so, just having a go before the 'food' swims away.

Nah, can't eat crustations, she'll fish from hawkes burry at the moment. I don't know about crabs. 

Ah, thanks. I was pretty suppised, never seen a bream jump like that. 

[slothparade]

1 hour ago, Duffy75 said:

How's the water quality? Did you end up getting any crabs?

Yeah, waters hit or miss. Down the river it's kinda muddy and murky, but up to the first bay it was literally crystal clear, keep heading up and it get worse, it's not the most murky but yeah, you can see about half a meter to a meter. 

Checking the pots tomorrow but it's a new spot. It's completely not accessable by boat and you have to be careful with the sand bars. By the looks of it, it was relatively untouched. Anyways it's not the easiest to lug pots up there so yep. 

[bessell1955]

I just love Hawkesbury River prawns.  They are so sweet but I have been unable to get any due to the floods.

[Larkin]

Bit of top action - always good fun 👍

Those live prawns are top bait - were they decent sized?

[Little_Flatty]

Sounds like this report isn't finished yet 😎...hopefully part two comes with more success on the crabs!