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Greg Newton was stoked with his 38cm bream.
Basics in the bay targeting bream
This good-sized 60cm athead was caught around Jumpinpin.
Tracey Creagh with a monster 45cm bream.
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a couple of flathead on
schools the right way, and there seem to be a lot more idiots fishing the bay these days, which makesitharderformore experienced fishos.
the Pin on the outgo- ing tide targeting flat- head, and though a lot were just under size, we managed two around 60cm – all on plastics.
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back to fishing basics at times – bream let you know just how good they are as fighting fish when you have a good session.
I was out at Mud the other weekend along with 100 other boats and the noise they were making – it’s no wonder nothing was caught ex- cept small stuff.
Prawns have been caught around Man- ly on the north side, around MacLeay Is- land and in the river as far as the pontoon at Colmslie.
The weather at the Pin was kind and we ven- tured out to the bar.
A simple trick to cut down on boat noise is to cover your anchor chain with a bicycle tube which eliminates a hell of a lot of drop- ping or pulling anchor racket.
Tailor have turned up on the edges of most bay islands and we even found a school that had attracted a flock of terns – a giveaway to their whereabouts.
The water was black with whitebait and the birds were going off.
We threw slugs around the school and letting them sink be- low the bait school, and we managed a fair few tailor ranging in size from choppers to others around the 50cm mark.
Another rant is the eti- quette at the boat ramp. Of late most boat ramps have been full and overflowing onto surrounding roads, but it’s at the ramp itself where some have no consideration for oth- ers and seem to take all day to either offload or
A heap of bonito are in the bay at present and the odd school of longtail tuna are still around, and of course doggy mackerel are available through win- ter because they’re 12-month fish.
On most retrieves we even caught whitebait on the treble because they were so thick.
What gets me uptight are the idiots who drive their boats through the bait school and not giv- ing a damn about those sitting on the edges of the school – they have no idea how to fish a bait school like it was that day.
retrieve.
If you prepare your
Birds give the where- abouts of fish away sometimes but if you troll the edges of the drop-offs with whole pillie, chrome slugs or chrome spoons, you have a good chance of finding the odd one.
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We did a fair bit of drifting from Crusoe Island to the mouth of
Even a paravane
trailer before backing down the ramp it will save time and you won’t hold other people up.
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