new south wales Unexpected But Very Welcoming By Catch

[Brodie_S]

I went out to my not so local break wall but nearest break wall 40 minute drive fished there a few times got some good bream there before . So this arvo I rocked up to the breakwall light breeze sunny last 2 hours of the run out perfect time for flathead fishing flicked some zman slim swims for about 1 hour . only a few bites from some small bream couldn’t believe it so I switched to a surface lure and walked to the sandflats not far from the breakwall to see if any whiting were interested in taking my pimped 70m sugurpen not a single chase . So I walked back onto the breakwall and started fishing with bread fished this one spot for about 40 minutes caught 4 bream all under 15cm it was almost time to go .starting to get dark as I walked back I had a quick flick using bread not to far from the cleaning stations that they had on the breakwall .same thing small bream . I switched to a curly tail grub got snagged 2nd casted so I went back to bread on my last cast prepared to catch a 10cm bream on bread I cast out wait 30-50 seconds stairing at my braid with my bail arm flipped over waiting for a bite or a run suddenly braid starts flying through my guides and shooting deeper into the snaggy looking water I set the hook expecting a few good head shakes and then skull dragging a tiny bream but instead I got some massive head shakes and then a run like a Freight train and my rod was bending more then I was comfortable with I was huffing and puffing this fish was pulling line like a kingfish btw I was using 6lb braid 6lb leader and a 1.5-3.5kg atomic arrowz bream surface rod the fish didn’t give up as the fish got closer to the rock wall I seen a silver flash and a arrow shaped tail what could this be . I pulled it in closer making sure it didn’t wrap me around weed or oysters or even dive under a rock I got my net and scooped up a 33cm silver trevally that I originally thought was a pb bream or a juvenile kingfish or school jewfish a very good surprise for my last cast I brain spiked the fish with a knife and bleed it out and put it a bucket with water and kept it and is now in the freezer btw I’ve never caught one before I’ve only been fishing probably for just over a year never had a fish like that fight so hard . Fought harder then my PB flathead 55cm .so know I’m trying to do research so I can catch more of these things 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey Breaming with bro

Nice job on the silver trev, I've only ever caught a few GT's. Sounds like it put up a ripper of a fight. 

Are you going to eat it? I find trevally quite nice.  

Cheers Hamish

[Brodie_S]

Yea I am 

Just now, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hey Breaming with bro

Nice job on the silver trev, I've only ever caught a few GT's. Sounds like it put up a ripper of a fight. 

Are you going to eat it? I find trevally quite nice.  

Cheers Hamish

Yes I am 

[ellicat]

Well done mate. I'm guessing you can't wait to get back for some more.

[Brodie_S]

Yep I just have to figured out how to catch them consistently  I’ve only caught bream and flathead there and everyone else there Only target . Bream flathead luderick whiting jewfish kingfish snapper drummer tailor mullet dart aussie salmon silver biddy leather jacket and sometimes sharks also popular by catch includes garfish trumpeter hairtail goatfish needlefish pike stingrays squid/cuttlefish juvenile GT and estuary cod but estuary cod a extremely rare there . never seen anyone target or catch silver trevally or even seen someone clean trevally at the cleaning station it’s a fairly popular breakwall and people that fish there are at a variety of fishing skills beginners to pros and the cleaning station is usually packed with people cleaning full eskys of fish all day long and I think silver trevally prefer southern waters where I was fishing is a fair bit north of Sydney 

18 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Well done mate. I'm guessing you can't wait to get back for some more.

 

[Hweebe]

@Breaming with bro When rock wall fishing for bream we found bread was only useful for the smaller bream / undersize catches. Bigger bait presentations, whilst getting less hits tended to get us onto the bigger legal sized breams. Have you thought about cast netting for bait local to the area? We also found fresh live or dead bait local to the spot as the most effective.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey Hweebe

Those are some good tips, but I am pretty sure Breaming with bro is based in NSW. In NSW, it is illegal to cast net. 

Cheers Hamish  

[Hweebe]

1 hour ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hey Hweebe

Those are some good tips, but I am pretty sure Breaming with bro is based in NSW. In NSW, it is illegal to cast net. 

Cheers Hamish  

Good pick up Hamish..cross the cast net off in NSW

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

4 hours ago, Hweebe said:

Good pick up Hamish..cross the cast net off in NSW

Hey Hweebe

Yes, that would be wise. The first time I went to Brunswick Heads we had our net ready, but luckily the tackle shop guys sorted us out, and we were later showed pumping yabbies by a helpful local, who unfortunately learnt the hard way. 

The worst thing is though, whenever we are down there, we see heaps of mullet busting up. They'd make perfect jew bait.  Apparently the reason they were banned is because to many people kept fish like bream, luderick, whiting, etc from them, instead of using them what they're for (bait). 

Cheers Hamish  

[Brodie_S]

Yea no if I want catch bait I just use sabiki jigs they work pretty well and yes sometimes I do get small bream on bread but a lot of times I get 3/4 bream around 30cm and bigger in a 1 or 2 hour session using bread so it just depends on the day and the gear I use for bream is fairly light so live baiting isn’t a very good option as in winter kingfish and big tailor swim around looking small poddy mullet and baitfish and if I get a kingfish there’s no way I’m landing it with 3-8lb rod and 6 braid with 4lb or 6lb leader and yes you can’t use cast nets in nsw 

[Drop Bear]

nice one mate. Did you get a photo?

[Brodie_S]

No unfortunately I didn’t have my phone with me at the time and I’ve already filleted it . I wish I got a photo though good idea I’ll get a photo next time

[Drop Bear]

7 minutes ago, Breaming with bro said:

No unfortunately I didn’t have my phone with me at the time and I’ve already filleted it . I wish I got a photo though good idea I’ll get a photo next time

You know what they say POIDH Photo or it didnt happen. haha soz only joking. 

Glad you got a nice trev. They are great and I hope you enjoyed the meal.