AlbertW Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Hey All, I was able to finally get out after a long 4 week break due to assessments. My mate had also finished uni the week before so I was able to organise a session with him. During the long weekend I had sold some rods and managed to spoil myself with a flagship ultralight daiwa setup for my birthday. I got a 712 infeet 23 ex for a crazy good deal on facebook and ordered the new 24 certate in the 2500S size off a Japanese website. We managed to get on the water by 6:30 on Sunday and the main plan of the day was to chase some bream but first we tried to sound for some jew as my mate had been getting onto some for 6 sessions in a row. We found them at a deep hole but they weren't feeding so we moved on. First stop was a sandbank in which we flicked a couple of soft vibes around, I wasn't able to land anything but my mate had landed a couple legal flathead. Then we decided to go have a flick at some boat hulls, I tied on a rudie's ebi on a 1/20th jighead and finally had a couple flicks with the new setup. We both had a couple hits and takes but the bream just weren't comitting that day, I had some trouble learning how to skip lures under boat hulls and structure at first but by the end of the day I had definitely improved a lot through my mate's tips. After a couple of more hits and a single hookup for my mate which resulted in an instant cut off on oysters we decided to fish a little island made out of sandbags that had a lot of birds nested on it. I changed to my now favourite plastic - the sprat 75 on a 1/12 jighead and finally got stuck into some fish. A flathead was the first fish to hit the deck for me and was shortly followed by two legal bream, one for me and one for my mate. After a couple more flathead we decided to go fish some pontoons in the canals. Again, the fish just weren't committing that day and even after hours of flicking into the cracks and slips of pontoons and moored boats, we were only rewarded with a couple of bites. We finally had enough of flicking structure so we decided to hit up a sandbank as our last spot. After a few more flatties and a horde of tailor cruising around, I landed a nice trev that had tricked me for a good flathead. Again, all of these fish were hooked on the sprat 75. Finally on the way back we decided to have a quick flick for some jew, my mate sounded up some bait and I tied on a micro jig, not expecting anything as I haven't caught anything in the estuary on them. I lifted it a couple times off the bottom and to my surprise hooked another flathead that had tricked me for a jew . The cool thing was that I felt the flathead come up to the middle water column, eat my jig and then turn around to swim down. We had a quick stop at my mates house as he helped me change out the stock knob on the certate for a SLP works one then he dropped me off at a nearby boat ramp as he had work and I had tutoring. The new setup is an absolute beast and with the certate being my first daiwa spin reel and the infeet being my first daiwa rod I think I've set the standard quite high 😅. I can't wait to get more sessions in with the setup as it's a complete game changer for light game. Thanks for reading! Albert 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertW Posted June 25 Author Share Posted June 25 (edited) The new setup is absolute mint edit: changed file to JPG so it would display Edited June 25 by AlbertW 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertW Posted June 25 Author Share Posted June 25 First bream in the boat! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james Cutler Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Greta report & photos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little_Flatty Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Worthy catches for the new outfit Albert. Happy birthday! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Thorough report @AlbertW. I can see that that new outfit will be your favourite “go to” weapon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertW Posted June 26 Author Share Posted June 26 21 hours ago, james Cutler said: Greta report & photos. Thanks James! 18 hours ago, Little_Flatty said: Worthy catches for the new outfit Albert. Happy birthday! Cheers Mike, hopefully some big bream will be caught haha 2 hours ago, Pickles said: Thorough report @AlbertW. I can see that that new outfit will be your favourite “go to” weapon. Cheers Bob, I've retired my nasci to the 2-4kg rod now haha, the certate will definitely be living on the rod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantong Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 a fantastic outfit, well done mate! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 An interesting day out, variety of fish to be caught, new fishing gear to use. Good effort. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Great report Albert! The new set up will catch you plenty of PBs in the months to come, good to get those exams out of the way! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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