hello fishermen and fisherladies

[DG89]

i caught a bream once

[Angus]

Interesting introduction!

Welcome to the site mate. Hopefully with a few tips from here you can catch a few more

[obone]

:laugh: Lovely first post Dan!

Joel

[MichaelJ]

indeed angus

very interesting introduction

[obone]

Despite his far from enthralling introduction, Dan's my sidekick for the BRC. I have been pestering him, saying he needed to make a post to introduce himself so there you go.

Joel

[bootyinblue]

obone wrote:

Despite his far from enthralling introduction, Dan's my sidekick for the BRC. I have been pestering him, saying he needed to make a post to introduce himself so there you go.

Joel

Which kinda makes the introduction all that more interesting.

Anyway welcome to the site DG!

[pinkey]

Hi dan. How large was that bream?

[DG89]

43cm, twas a good catch off the top of moreton island. One cape past the lighthouse. it was a sweet winter afternoon and the swell was huge, and so were the bream and dart. they jsut kept coming.

[kevinchen19870316]

sweet intro, remind me of every single fish fell to my bait

[Fisher_90]

Hi mate, i've never caught a bream you know, so you've done better than me.

[DG89]

wow really, whaddya target?

See im mostly a beach fisherman more then anyother style

[DG89]

I think obones got a pi of the monster bream if your keen to see it.

Good times

[rumrunner]

hey there mate

if ya got a boat head to the jumpinpin and fish kalinga banks about 20 mtrs s/w of the swan bay protection sign! there is always plenty of bream there! ive thrown back ova 50.

[Cowfish13]

Are the Kalinga Banks just the ones on the inside of the main Jumpinpin Bar?

If so, there are a few big Bream there

[rumrunner]

Cowfish13 wrote:

Are the Kalinga Banks just the ones on the inside of the main Jumpinpin Bar?

If so, there are a few big Bream there

yep!

just beside swan bay!

[Cowfish13]

Yeah. When I wasn't really targeting them (went for anything:)) I caught 3 (31, 29 and 25cm) which was pretty good for me.

[ellicat]

Hello DG89. Welcome aboard. I'm eating a King Size Crunchie.

[rumrunner]

Cowfish13 wrote:

Yeah. When I wasn't really targeting them (went for anything:)) I caught 3 (31, 29 and 25cm) which was pretty good for me.

it is one of my fav spots for bream!

some days you can turn up at 10am and pull in 5-10 good bream,

but other days expecialy when blowing north the fish just wont bite know matter how hard you try!

good flatty there tooB)

[pinkey]

Hey ellicat... What does it taste like? how much of it have you eaten? How much did you buy it for??

[DG89]

Yeah thanks for the tip. Bream are my favourite fish to catch and eat, I'll defs be targeting thema t the BRC this year. But your right sometimes they sjut wont bite. I was fishing at kingscliff estuary once and i could see a whole school of them, but htey wouldn't strike.

Bloody fussy

[rumrunner]

ellicat wrote:

Hello DG89. Welcome aboard. I'm eating a King Size Crunchie.

mmm ive got the munchies

[Cowfish13]

In a tributary to the Tweed River, I've see a school of Bream, some atleast 40cm (trufully) and they wouldm't take a lure on 6lb Braid and leader and they wouldn't even take an unweighted peeled Prawn with that same gear. Bloody fussy fish:angry:.

But even if I had hooked one, I probably wouldn't have landed it as the pillons of a bridge were covered in oyesters.

[rumrunner]

Cowfish13 wrote:

In a tributary to the Tweed River, I've see a school of Bream, some atleast 40cm (trufully) and they wouldm't take a lure on 6lb Braid and leader and they wouldn't even take an unweighted peeled Prawn with that same gear. Bloody fussy fish:angry:.

But even if I had hooked one, I probably wouldn't have landed it as the pillons of a bridge were covered in oyesters.

i also seen this down the tweed bridge when i was a young fella! there was a guy catching them on weed/moss green stuff! he said they were black bream and will only eat weed/moss!

[pinkey]

Cowfish13 wrote:

In a tributary to the Tweed River, I've see a school of Bream, some atleast 40cm (trufully) and they wouldm't take a lure on 6lb Braid and leader and they wouldn't even take an unweighted peeled Prawn with that same gear. Bloody fussy fish:angry:.

But even if I had hooked one, I probably wouldn't have landed it as the pillons of a bridge were covered in oyesters.

I had the same happen to me in the tweed river off a jetty, but they were all around 20 - 25cm there was HUNDREDS of them The only way i could catch them was use 4lb mono straight using a small hook and peices of whitebait covering the hook , Sinkers would just scare them away so you had to go unweighted and drift it down slowly with the current..

[pcsolutionman]

this is a school of bream in the mooloolah river all between 30-40cm they wouldnt touch a thing

[img size=499]http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb161/pcsolutionman/fishing%20with%20adam/p1020466-web.jpg

[img size=499]http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb161/pcsolutionman/fishing%20with%20adam/p1020464-web.jpg

[img size=499]http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb161/pcsolutionman/fishing%20with%20adam/p1020461-web.jpg

and one we pulled from a a boat just meters away 5 mins later

[img size=499]http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb161/pcsolutionman/p1020337-web.jpg

Lee

[rumrunner]

pcsolutionman wrote:

this is a school of bream in the mooloolah river all between 30-40cm they wouldnt touch a thing

[img size=499]http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb161/pcsolutionman/fishing%20with%20adam/p1020466-web.jpg

[img size=499]http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb161/pcsolutionman/fishing%20with%20adam/p1020464-web.jpg

[img size=499]http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb161/pcsolutionman/fishing%20with%20adam/p1020461-web.jpg

and one we pulled from a a boat just meters away 5 mins later

[img size=499]http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb161/pcsolutionman/p1020337-web.jpg

Lee

nice bream lee!

did you try throwing them some bread?

there are huge bream thet hang around the back of the gold coast marina, at around 8pm on weekends they will take bread floating! i was told this by a guy who worked on a charter boat i went on, and when i saw all the uneaten sandwitches from the day getting thrown overboard and saw it with my own eyes it was on ! the challenge was set and my brother and i was off to catch a big ass bream on bread!

at first no luck at all like you said they would not touch anything, but tried we did and after a few diff locations we found the sweet spot! and best of all its off land! and just as the bait guy said rite on 8pm this time of year!

[Brian D]

DG89 wrote:

i caught a bream once

Ha you got my attention.

[Cowfish13]

rumrunner wrote:

Cowfish13 wrote:

In a tributary to the Tweed River, I've see a school of Bream, some atleast 40cm (trufully) and they wouldm't take a lure on 6lb Braid and leader and they wouldn't even take an unweighted peeled Prawn with that same gear. Bloody fussy fish:angry:.

But even if I had hooked one, I probably wouldn't have landed it as the pillons of a bridge were covered in oyesters.

i also seen this down the tweed bridge when i was a young fella! there was a guy catching them on weed/moss green stuff! he said they were black bream and will only eat weed/moss!

He was probably catching Luderick. But the fish we saw were Bream.

[DG89]

yeah probably luderick although I've heard of some species of bream taking sea grass and i mean they eat bread aye, so wouldn't suprise me.

[MichaelJ]

Fisher_90 wrote:

Hi mate, i've never caught a bream you know, so you've done better than me.

really have you never caught a bream?