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A nice bream landed from a rubbly drain between two ats.
Sheri with a bream landed shing from the stand-up paddle board.
IFishing plastics around natural structure for bream
AM happy to tar- this high tide feeding the retrieve up a little get any species that ground. until you find out what will eat my lures, If the conditions are the fish want.
Tackle Tactics
by JUSTIN WILLMER
and bream on light spin windy, use the wind to I usually kick things
gear can be both fun and challenging.
from line destroying structure.
Here are a few natural structure types I like to target bream around and successful tech- niques for fishing each type of structure. Weed flats
My favourite bream fishing generally re-
volves around weed flats covered by a high tide with 1m or more of water.
I will primarily target the last hour or two of a run-in tide and the first hour of a run-out, as I find this is when fish are actively trying to make the most of
move across the flat and make long casts with it.
off with a long cast, followed by a couple of hops before the lure buries in the weed and then I slowly roll it above the weed.
When a big bream eats your soft plastic and switches on the afterburners, it’s cool to watch the line cut through the water and feel your inner ninja switch on as you em- ploy crazy rod work to keep the fish away
If there is little or no wind, use a tidal drift and fan casts around the boat.
You can break up the retrieve with an occa- sional short pause or twitch of the rod.
Always keep an eye out for bait flicking and if you do see bait, try to make a cast to it.
My go-to presentation
A cast to a skipping prawn and this sh was on.
They’re not all monsters but they’re all good fun on light line
when shing shallow ats.
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