The little hard fighters

It’s known that bream are the hardest fighters for their body length. Whiting and flathead are other species of fish you can catch when bream fishing and you could even pick up a trevally or two. To fish for bream you need light tackle but it should be good quality. The rod depends on how you plan to catch them, live bait or frozen bait would be a fibreglass rod, hardbodys would need a graphite or graphite core rod and soft plastics would definitely need a graphite rod. Bream are very picky so if you’re using bait take multiple baits, if you’re using lures take a variety of styles and colours, when using soft plastics in the local river I prefer chartreuse and pumpkin seed type colours. When I use hardbodys I go for a ‘Sebile’ rattsler because their body shape resembles that of a baitfish, I would use it in natural shiner or natural golden shiner. The rod I have for this is a Diawa d-shock graphite medium action with a Shakespeare synergy two multi spool reel. I like the multi spool because you can have light line for bream and whiting then something heavier for flathead. The key to finding bream in any situation is structure structure structure!!. looke for fallen trees or rocky pillars and you should find some nice bream.

An even better exploration

First of all sorry for the lack of blog updates, the river is in flood and I was busy with end of year school work. The recent kayak exploration was paddling to the mangroves and fishing for barramundi. This time was just like it except we went further into the back creek systems, yes I say we because I take a mate it is a lot safer when there is two people. we started off at a dirt boat ramp and while our kayaks floated in the water waiting to set off on the epic journey my mate and I tried on our lures, my lure of choice was a koolie minnow natural shine. Once again my lure of choice is made by Sebile but if you ever get your hands on one of these fantastic lures you will know why. The lure was 76mm long and ready to snatch up whatever would jump at it. My friend used a rattsler to help me test them out and on his second line had a rapala but once again the Sebile did him good and his lure wasn’t even needed. All my sebiles go into a lure cabinet I made to show off their battle scares and remind me of their battles until the next time I take them out to the water. After the lures were on we set off for the on paddle to the back creaks of the tidal causeway lake. Once we got to the area that Barra were originally caught we anchored and cast up close to the roots of the mangroves, the Barra dig holes in these root systems and hide there until the baitfish (in this case our lures) swim past and bam we have one on our line. This time only small Barra were caught but that wasn’t surprising because the water looked like tea but we did catch some mangrove jack and type of large toothy herring. We dropped a crab pot in and then pulled our anchors out and went to a bank to have lunch.  After lunch we checked the pot and the crab bait had been munched and shredded but no crabs so that was odd. After that our luck went on a downfall because no matter what lure we put on the fish didn’t seem to want it. So that was the end of another day as we paddled back to the boat ramp. Yet another Sebile was added to the lure rack.