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Bream is my new favourite live bait!

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Haven't been shark fishing this summer yet (damn bass fishing is addictive), so tossed the rods and net in the car for a quick session at FTP this arvo.

Threw the cast net around for a dozen prawns, no mullet or herring :angry:

Rigged up a couple of rods with the prawns and within a few minutes the baitrunner had me a 28cm bream. I rigged him onto my barra rod and sent him out to the drop off. Having never used bream as shark bait before, I had to fine tune my rig to keephim where I wanted him and left him out there. I caught 6 more legal bream, but was hoping for a catfish, as this is my proven bait at this spot. Down to my last prawn and finally, a 30ish catty :woohoo: who goes out on my baitrunner.

I settle in and get comfy. Just on dusk, the bream takes up the slack and takes a few clicks of the ratchet a few times then goes slack again. I leave it, but shortly after the line tightens up and stays tthat way. I assume its dead and a crabs got a hold of it, so I wind it in slowly. As the bait approaches the ramp I see a bow wave, but as I lift the fish out, I notice the bow wave is from the shark cruising along behind it :ohmy: It circles with its back out of the water a couple of times, then I realise whats happening and jig the bream infront of it in 6 inches of water. The shark goes nuts and launches out of the water as it takes the bream. I free spool the overhead and let him take the hooks down and strike hard. The shark takes of and tail walks in a big arc around the ramp :blink: As I start to bring him in close, the baitrunner goas off, and I assume its fouled on this line, but its going in the other direction :ohmy: So I engage the drag on the baitrunner, while beaching the first shark and fight the second one in. Heres the first shark

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then get the hook out and release him. Second fish is 5cm longer at 83cm.

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heres whats the shark spat out of the first bait

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and finally the way I hook my livies for shark fishing

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As you can see by the photos, the sharks tend to grab the back half of the bait and the rear hook is the only one that takes. I use the front hook to hold the bait nice in the current.

I only had 2 traces left in my tackle bag and when I put out another bream bait on a the used trace, it failed on the next hook up and lost another shark.

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Biggest last summer was 5 foot, on a catfish that was barely 6 inches long. Alway come on the chew between sunset and 9pm, as long as tide change doesn't fall within that time. Today was perfect, high at 4.30, and a good flow out as the sun went down. Catties were hard to come by, but heaps of bream

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nice 1 :)

good report :)

i was hoping to get a bream or 2 last night as the catty's don't seam to work for me .

we went out to kooka yesterday too but got there real late 7 pm.

only livies we could get where prawns ,quite a few around the ramp.

end up putting cattys out as there where heaps of them about and that all we caught all night long.

not a touch ,reckon we got there to late and missed all the action.

kept thinking all night with all the prawns about maybe i should of been trying for threadies ,instead of sharks .

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thanks! yup like u say better to have a variety in the tackle box! Jus saw on channel 7 news shark warning an how bullies are meant to be on the increase , some dude was saying if they dont raise the legal limit to more than 1 per angler they could get out of control

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