queensland pine river big breams - 31.1.16

[curranboy99]

Hello all, a report from my last session on the pine river earlier today.

I left home at 8.00am after a welcome sleep in driving to sandgate bait shop then off to deep water bend to target some bream rather than whiting to mix-up my fishing style a bit. I got down to the pine around 8.30am and walked out onto the boardwalk jetty. Low tide was at about 8.35am, there was a very-light ne wind, and it was partly cloudy. The rig I was using was 3lb braid main-line -> 7' of 4lb fluoro leader, connected to mainline by Albright knot -> sz00 ball sinker -> gamakatsu octopus sz2 hook and my bait was a 2cm x 2cm mullet strip

I was casting my bait up tide and letting it drift with the tide 5m out from the jetty and my second cast I felt a couple tap, tap, taps then gave the biting-fish some slack line then the rod pulled towards the water and I had a fish on that didn't take long to land and it was a 20cm bream that got released of course. After another 30mintues fished I caught a small estuary cod that was about 5cm long.

after that small cod I keep fishing and fishing then I had a fish bite which was a tap, tap, then a pause then soon after a screaming run which I lifted the rod to set the hooks, the fish was running towards the jetty which had oyster/barnacle encrusted rocks under it and somehow I stopped the fish and then made a couple cranks of the handle then it ran towards the unforgiving structure again and after a longish fight the fish surfaced and was puzzled how to land it and decided to grab the leader and pull it up which to my luck the leader didn't snap!!! I grabbed the fish and had a pic taken and it measured 31cm and got bleed out then put on ice.

An hour later after that fish I hooked up again and this fish was even bigger making massive headshakes and powerful runs towards structure when the fish came to the surface I had the same problem as the other bream; landing it, so I grabbed the mainline saw the blue lips of the fish and guess what, as I pulled it up SNAP goes the mainline . After that fish which was for sure a new pb (current pb bream 35cm) I packed up and filleted the 31cm bream and left at 10.30am.

[31cm yellowfin bream)

curranboy99

[Panther]

Nice one. 30+ cm bream fight like little freight trains. 

I drove over the pine river bridge this morning and saw a ton of tinnies casting for prawns. Never seen so many in there before... 

With all those prawns I reckon the fishing would be great at the moment. 

[curranboy99]

29 minutes ago, Panther said:

Nice one. 30+ cm bream fight like little freight trains. 

I drove over the pine river bridge this morning and saw a ton of tinnies casting for prawns. Never seen so many in there before... 

With all those prawns I reckon the fishing would be great at the moment. 

Thanks @Panther 

The pine was packed with tinnys casting for prawns it was insane, which probably lead to the better than normal session due to prawn numbers in the pine river  

[The Mad Hughesy]

the bigger fish are starting to come to you mate well done!

[curranboy99]

37 minutes ago, christophagus said:

the bigger fish are starting to come to you mate well done!

Thanks Chris  

[Dursto]

Good to see your persistance paying off mate. Hope you enjoyed the feed.

[curranboy99]

2 hours ago, Dursto said:

Good to see your persistance paying off mate. Hope you enjoyed the feed.

Thanks @Dursto