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.
Hey, you seid to use fibre glass rods for bait fishing but I have found graphite rods perform at a much higher level as you can feel the most sutle bites. I use an Okuma graphite spin and it never lets me down weather i'm fishing with bait or lures. Surface lures like small poppers and stick baits are gun bream lures. Also rapala's new x-rap 4cm bream minnow lure is good with a twitch and pause retrieve as it keeps it suspended right in the strike zone.
ReplyDeleteOh, i forgot to mension bream arn't that picky with bait, as long as it is a relevant size to the fish you are targeting. They eat prawns, nippers, crabs, worms, a whole range of natural baitfish and molluscs like pipis.
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ReplyDeletethankyou for your comments, when using bait i like to use a fibre glass rod because you can see the bites for if you are off cast netting but i do agree graphite performs much better. and yes the larger size bream will hunt baitfish but if you use a specific bait that bream are going out of their way to target on that particular day then you can target just bream on that bait if it takes your fancy
Sorry Mr fish guru, i agree with that other fellow about the rods, bait and lures. you can't just pick a bait that only bream will eat but you can rig it so that it stays in the bream strike zone. rigs like the paternosta rig instead of a running sinker rig help it get away from flatties and whiting that are on the bottom and give the midwater bream a chance to hit the bait.
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ReplyDeletewhen i have been whiting fishing it is generally off rocky bans onto yabbie beds and multiple rods are used and i know many others that do the same and whilst graphites are good for one rod when you have multiple rods in different areas fibreglass shows the strikes better and takes away a chance of breaking a prized light gear rgrapite rod. yes i agree with rhett and you also about you can pick one bati but you can pick a bait that mainly bream will strike. the paternosta rig is an excellent idea but the flats around the ares i have fished are roughly knee deep at an avarage high tide in most areas. if you have any more questions or commenrts you feel the need to tell me, i am open to all comments because what we learn makes us better. email me at clay94_fishing@live.com.au
hey man thanks for the great info, i agree with your comment about using fibreglass rods when baiting with multiple rods
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