Hey readers,
Just an update on where I am at in finding that legal mulloway. Me and fellow fisher Ben have put in a few more hours luring mostly around our usual haunts where we have been catching the schoolies, hoping to find there mum or dad., and also a new spot.
The new spot we tried proved to be a good idea as I hooked up to a easily legal mulloway but being so close to strucutre it rubbed me off in about 20 seconds. Which was good in one way, of knowing that there is fish there and bad in the other, as I lost that fish I have been looking for so long. We kept at it around this location for a while, hooking a few undersize bream in the process.
We have still been catching a fair few schoolies but still know legals, but the time is near for when they come out to play. So get your boats out or hit the wharves around the port river for chance on landing what many call the "silver ghost".
I will put some more photos up soon, stay tuned.
Leethal
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
What lure will this bream take??
Quite often you pull up to a fishy looking spot where you think bream would have to be feeding around, but some days some lures will get smashed and other days the wiley bream will just sit there and watch it swim past. In this blog Im going to try and help you to make lure choice alot easier to tempt that bream.
These days there is loads of lures of all sizes and style to chase bream. The lures you should be using should be really no more than 70mm to get a consistent bite, but big bream have been to take 100mm lures that had been used to lure mulloway. My preferred size of lure is 40mm to 50mm. And there is alot of bream lures available in this size so you are able to have a good variety of this lures in different colours.
As for colours, I think a bream will take a lure which ever color it is as long as it looks edible to them and they are hungry or will even attack it out of anger. I usually try and stick with natural colours and try to "match the hatch" when fishing in different areas, as different sections of river can have different colurations and clarity.
There is alot of different styles of lures that can be used to target bream. There is soft plastics, hard body minnows, metal blades, hard bodied vibes, bibless minnows etc etc. These all have there different purposes for different sections and depths of water. Basically to put them in sub groups you have floating, sinking and suspending catergories.
Most will use floating lures for fishing over snaggy areas, shallow drop-offs, flats and rock walls, and is a deadly tool in the tackle box.
Sinking lures like blades and vibes are handy to fish deep sections of water, deep holes and even vertical structures like flat walls. They also have the bonuses of catching other fish that like deep holes and dont mind to chew on a bit of metal or plastic
Suspending lures are a deadly lure on bream, and can be used with quite finesse to lure that sneaky bream. As they suspend in the water column you can sit a lure in the water while you wait for the strike and also helps towards getting a real lifelike action out of the lure.
As for plastics they are able to be fished down deep and on top resembling a bait fish or shrimp fleeing on top of the water and have so many ways you can present the lure to get that bite.
All different lures also have alot of different actions you can impart on the lure to get that hit from the bream and it reallys comes down to how you work each different lure differently until you find out what works. It is good to impart twitches of the rod tip to impart darting actions into the lure to reproduce the look of the available bait fish. Also pausing some lures can really impart that reaction bite. But like I say there is alot of different ways you just have to find out what works for you.
Well with this basic description of the lures and how or where they work best, I hope it gives you a bit more of knowledge on targetting this species the black bream. If you have any questions on different lures etc etc post a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks
Leethal
These days there is loads of lures of all sizes and style to chase bream. The lures you should be using should be really no more than 70mm to get a consistent bite, but big bream have been to take 100mm lures that had been used to lure mulloway. My preferred size of lure is 40mm to 50mm. And there is alot of bream lures available in this size so you are able to have a good variety of this lures in different colours.
As for colours, I think a bream will take a lure which ever color it is as long as it looks edible to them and they are hungry or will even attack it out of anger. I usually try and stick with natural colours and try to "match the hatch" when fishing in different areas, as different sections of river can have different colurations and clarity.
There is alot of different styles of lures that can be used to target bream. There is soft plastics, hard body minnows, metal blades, hard bodied vibes, bibless minnows etc etc. These all have there different purposes for different sections and depths of water. Basically to put them in sub groups you have floating, sinking and suspending catergories.
Most will use floating lures for fishing over snaggy areas, shallow drop-offs, flats and rock walls, and is a deadly tool in the tackle box.
Sinking lures like blades and vibes are handy to fish deep sections of water, deep holes and even vertical structures like flat walls. They also have the bonuses of catching other fish that like deep holes and dont mind to chew on a bit of metal or plastic
Suspending lures are a deadly lure on bream, and can be used with quite finesse to lure that sneaky bream. As they suspend in the water column you can sit a lure in the water while you wait for the strike and also helps towards getting a real lifelike action out of the lure.
As for plastics they are able to be fished down deep and on top resembling a bait fish or shrimp fleeing on top of the water and have so many ways you can present the lure to get that bite.
All different lures also have alot of different actions you can impart on the lure to get that hit from the bream and it reallys comes down to how you work each different lure differently until you find out what works. It is good to impart twitches of the rod tip to impart darting actions into the lure to reproduce the look of the available bait fish. Also pausing some lures can really impart that reaction bite. But like I say there is alot of different ways you just have to find out what works for you.
Well with this basic description of the lures and how or where they work best, I hope it gives you a bit more of knowledge on targetting this species the black bream. If you have any questions on different lures etc etc post a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks
Leethal
Saturday, March 14, 2009
More "schoolies" caught in the hunt for the legal mulloway
The hunt for that legal mulloway on lure has continued with yet another trip to the local river, the port river.
We got to our first mulloway spot after trying to nail some wiley bream, which were pretty much no where to be seen, at about 11am with near perfect conditions. It wasnt long until I had a hit but the fish dropped the lure straight away. So I let the lure sink and sit, I then saw the tell tale sign and my braided line slowly started tensioning. Stirke and I was on to the first "schoolie" for the day. (right)
The lure of choice for me was again the 4" Berkley Gulp minnow on a nitro 1/8 size jighead, and this was literally swolloed by this little mully, luckily for him he swam off fine.
Within probally about 10 casts after that mulloway was landed I was onto the next one, as soon as he was hooked he was not wanting to come up to meet the net, he tried to slug it down deep as long as possible. This one being still not legal but bigger than the last and very healthy. Not long after my fellow fishing companion was onto his first for the innings also no where near legal size. After this the bite seemed to shut down and we went in search of new territory to find the ever eluding legal mulloway, only to have bream hit our big plastics. So the chase is still on to find that big silver ghost.
Enjoy the pics
Leethal
Friday, February 27, 2009
Mulloway on lure in the Port River
While I have only targetted mulloway on lures a few times in the port river with success I would like to share with you what I have learnt about the species and how I have had my success.
Firstly I will go into a bit of information about the mulloway, that may suprise people. The mulloway is found not only from shark bay, Western Australia right along the southern coast right back up to the north of briasbane in Queensland, but they also frequent around Africa and Madagascar. They are found in many estarine systems, ocean beaches and gulf and offshore reefs.
The mulloway are oppurtunistic feeders, and feed on a variety of fish, molluscs and crustaceans. Obviously the size of there prey varies on the size of them. This should tell you something when chasing mulloway with lures, use the size to what you are targetting. Remember though when fishing for mullway in the port river the legal size limit is 75 cm from tip to tip.
Now like bream I have caught mulloway on lots of different lures which have suprised me but fishing always does. Lures I usually use while targetting them are minnows of about 4" in a variety of colors, also the 4" turtleback worm, berkley gulp is my favourite and one that always seems to get a fish. These will be taken by most sized mulloway fished rather slowly bounced along the bottom of deep holes throughout the port river system. I often target them using light tackle consisting of a Daiwa Tierre 2000 spooled with 8lb YGK nitlon braid with a 10lb YGK Nitlon leader, which straddles onto a Wilson Live fibre Texallium 4kg spin stick. Some people will be thinking why so light?? But Im in it for the sport, I am chasing the feeling of having a big mulloway trying to find freedom and peeling off line. Alot of people think that you wouldnt land a legal mulloway on this kind of gear, but it has been done before. I would also just see it as a personal fishing achievment, as I take my fiishing rather seriously, Im not one to lob a cockle over the side of the boat.
Well hopefully that gives you a bit of insight into how to catch a mulloway on lure and you can join me in the endeavour to land a mulloway on lure. And please feel free to let me know how you go!
Leethal
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Bream fishing in the Port River, SA.
On this blog I'm posting on how to target some of the most highly sought after fish in Australia's estuarine systems, the Black bream, but specifically on lures and in the port river in South Australia.
To target black bream in the Port River, South Australia is best by boat especially while targeting this species with lure. They are found through every stretch of the river from end to end usually schooling in various spots. For land based anglers it is quite difficult to fish a lot of spots around the river as there is very little spots you are legally allowed to enter and fish from, as many wharfs are controlled by the government and are not open to public for security reasons, and there is a lot of river covered with mangroves for metres and metres. A lot of these spots are accessible from the water while keeping within the river's regulations and offer some really good fish to be caught.
A lot of anglers that chase bream in the port river use a range of lures, from soft plastic to hard, from sizes from 30mm up to 100mm. There are many favourites amongst anglers that regularly score them legal length bream that are made by a range of different lure making company's such as ecogear, zipbaits, jackall bros. berkley and more.
To choose what lure to use on the day can often be a hard one so it is good to carry a variety with you, as one day a lure will work and the next day it wont even get a sniff. Favored colors of lures while bream fishing in the port river would be greens and natural colors that replicate bait fish and food which are often targeted by bream. But bream are a strange fish to understand as some times they will take something totally different to what you think would work, like a lot of the gulp range from Berkley, with there weird and wonderful colors that quite often get slammed by bream and occasionally the school mulloway.
Well that is all for this blog, with just a sniff of insight onto luring the black bream in the port river. Any questions, feel free to ask away, and stay tuned for the next blog on fishing for mulloway in the port river.
To target black bream in the Port River, South Australia is best by boat especially while targeting this species with lure. They are found through every stretch of the river from end to end usually schooling in various spots. For land based anglers it is quite difficult to fish a lot of spots around the river as there is very little spots you are legally allowed to enter and fish from, as many wharfs are controlled by the government and are not open to public for security reasons, and there is a lot of river covered with mangroves for metres and metres. A lot of these spots are accessible from the water while keeping within the river's regulations and offer some really good fish to be caught.
A lot of anglers that chase bream in the port river use a range of lures, from soft plastic to hard, from sizes from 30mm up to 100mm. There are many favourites amongst anglers that regularly score them legal length bream that are made by a range of different lure making company's such as ecogear, zipbaits, jackall bros. berkley and more.
To choose what lure to use on the day can often be a hard one so it is good to carry a variety with you, as one day a lure will work and the next day it wont even get a sniff. Favored colors of lures while bream fishing in the port river would be greens and natural colors that replicate bait fish and food which are often targeted by bream. But bream are a strange fish to understand as some times they will take something totally different to what you think would work, like a lot of the gulp range from Berkley, with there weird and wonderful colors that quite often get slammed by bream and occasionally the school mulloway.
Well that is all for this blog, with just a sniff of insight onto luring the black bream in the port river. Any questions, feel free to ask away, and stay tuned for the next blog on fishing for mulloway in the port river.
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