Daiwa-Hobie BREAM Kayak- R4 Tweed River Results

[SteveFields]

Greg Lewis (3/3, 1.47kg) claims another event win in the Daiwa-Hobie BREAM Kayak Series with victory in the rain laden Tweed River round.

Bob Boss (3/3, 1.265kg) secured second in only his second Daiwa-Hobie BREAM Kayak event, while Will Lee (3/3, 1.205kg) secured third and the 1st Pro cheque.

Place Angler Fish Weight Boss Hogg Payouts ($$) Payouts (Prizes)
1 Greg Lewis 3 1.47 0.8 $325 + $100 Boss Hogg (0.80kg) Ecogear Aqua Baits & Atomic Lure Pack
2 Bob Boss 3 1.265 0.605 $180 Berkley Gulp & Atomic Lure Pack
3 Will Lee 3 1.205 $130 + $50 (1st Pro) Berkley Gulp & Atomic Lure Pack
4 Nicholas Meridith 3 1.13 $100 Berkley Gulp & Atomic Lure Pack
5 Steve Fields 3 1.065 $75 Berkley Gulp & Atomic Lure Pack
6 Stephen Maas 3 0.88 Berkley Gulp & Atomic Lure Pack
7 Denis Metzdorf 1 0.7 0.7 Berkley Gulp & Atomic Lure Pack
8 Scott Sandilands 2 0.675 Atomic Lure Pack
9 Peter Bostock 2 0.645
10 Jason Meech 2 0.615
11 Peter Woods 1 0.395
12 Phil Pluis 1 0.36
13 Barry Trap 1 0.33
14 Daniel Young 1 0.31
15 Chris Maas 1 0.29
15 David Solano 1 0.29
17 Richard Creighton 1 0.265
17 Guy Struthers 1 0.265
19 Ben Kelly
20 Brian Rutledge
21 Dave Hedge
22 Gavin Smith
23 Jayson Clarke
24 Michael Thompson
25 Paul O'Leary
26 Rodney Lee

Results in table form at http://bream.com.au or http://hobiefishing.com.au

[patwah]

NIce jack..........

[warren63]

Well done to Gregl and anyone who caught a fish is has been some crappy conditions here the last couple of days. Cant beleive there is blue sky showing in those pics, is there another Tweed river ??

[blueyak]

Well done Greg, top effort again.
Well done to Bob Boss and Steve Fields for picking up grand final tickets,
Well done to Will Lee for picking up that cracking jack on bream gear,

But the biggest news is Hedgy got a jew

[danh124]

good work boya spewing i coulndt make it.

[justcrusin]

Well done to Greg, Bob and Will.

My comp form wasnt up to the challenge this week, nailed a huge amount of bream but all a tiddlerfest.

The prefish day and meet up with Greg and Steve at the launch, they head off down river and I peddle across to the oppisite bank and starting working up the shallows. Wasnt long before the squeakers started coming one after the other every second cast. Ok I thought lots of squeakers I'll just keep pluging away at them and she'll be right I'll get a few legals.
Next point at the entrance to shallow bay, I plong the lure right at the edge of some nice rocks one crank and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz the lure takes off, running left and right and a really good sized fish for 4lb staying down deep and had to pump him up with the light drag, at first I thought a small aussie salmon but as it hit the surface a good sized tailor.

Worked up into shallow bay and more squeakers, then a cast at the base of some mangoves got nailed and a nice bream joined me.

were was he comp day

A few casts later and the first of many whiting joined me on the yak. I got a lot of these on the prefish day but only a couple on comp day. Of course the squeaker bream kept coming. Oh did I mention the BLOODY FLATHEAD nothing great in size all around 40-50 but everyone engulfing my lure all the way in, left half a dozen plastics in the fish as they had them down way to deep and lost about half a dozen lures to stupid headshakes but If I went heavier than 4lb the bite stopped.

Comp day and with all the squeakers I was confident of pulling a bag out of them that didnt work out to well for me Headed off up stream from the start straight for chinderra bay and was rewarded on the second cast with a 25 to the tip bream, thought yeap all good I'll get a few but they kept going at that size all day, had a few that just went on the ruler but knowing the shrink factor in the well decided to let them go an hope for a good sized legal another big mistake should have taken my chances with the weight master

After working a bank watch Bob nail a stonker and Jas getting a heap the other side i staked out and rerigged the rods down to 3lb, but the tiddlers continued. I headed across to the other side of the bay and started to work some rock walls. Casting a muddy prawn atomic crank along the wall the reel goes off running like I had a good bream on staying about the same depth running into the rocks and back out again. Drags set really light so I take my time and its a bloody mullet.

Dissapoint and looking at some crispy cream on the way home, I spyed a reef on the way up the river an marked it on the sounder. I headed back down to the reef an bladed up with a black ZX 35, slightly modifed with a no16 treble instead of the stringer hooks they usually have. First cast onto the reef let it sink down second hop back to the yak and the lure gets nudged. I give it a second and the treble has worked the fish realises its hooked and all hell breaks loose, the rod is doubled over back underneath the yak. I get the rack round in time for the fish to race back towards the reef. this went on for quite a while. I was calling it for a nice trevally but the best fun I'd had all day. Very surprised when I get colour and a nice jewie for bream gear. My first yak jew and the hoodoo is broken.

So another comp over an dissapointed at donuting but thats comp fishing. Probably the best part about the comps is I have now fished another river I would have otherwised never fished and a good weekend away with the boys. Big thanks to Steve and Greg for helping me out with loaner drive unit after mine was looking a bit dodgy making it through the day.

Cheers Dave

[paffoh]

Dominate Greggles

[paulo]

Donuts for me as usual. Nice Jewie Dave.
Did you catch that on the Qld side of the river or the NSW side?
75cm limit in Qld.

[justcrusin]

NSW side Paul was up the near chinderra, reckon he would have been right on the 75 mark anyway released to fight again another day so it doesn't mater anyway.

Cheers Dave

[GregL]

Cheers guys
Stoked as, to pull another first is simply awesome - especially up there where the field was made up of many gun angler's who really know their stuff when it comes to fishing rivers - something I rarely get the opportunity to do.
As you'll read in the official reports on the Hobiefishing site, and the BREAM site, I bagged out in no time using a little top water stick bait amongst the mangroves. It was all a bit new to me as I generally hate using top water lures during comps (love them during social's though ) as the hook ups can sometimes be frustratingly difficult to get right - especially when you're dealing with lots of really small bream who don't know how to play the game!
This time it was pretty different and somewhat unorthodox - basically, it was pouring with heavy rain and I couldn't even see the lure most of the time, I just kept the retrieve pattern fairly simple and literally waited for the rod to load up. I obviously threw some cranks as well, but there just wasn't the same amount of interest in them, so I stuck with the top water bite and hoped for the best.
Then I headed up to the area where I knew fish had been caught during the prefish - (oh, my prefish sucked eggs - I caught 6 bream and no legals, and on Saturday night, was happy to poorly rate the Tweed as a good kayak venue, basically because the current in the Terranora arm and around the lower reaches of the river was way to hard to fish in anger. After having travelled upstream though on comp day, I realised that I was completely wrong as the current was no where near as strong - go the Tweed, it rocks - can't wait to go back one day ) - and soon found a handful of guys floating around in the calm water around the ebb.
I continued with the top water and pulled lots more squeakers, and then switched to the crankbaits, which straight away started producing too.
Once I'd been through four or five different patterns, I settled on the Daiwa crank which seemed to suit the depth nicely and started plugging away.
There was one spot, that I'm sure every single bloke who passed it would have concentrated their efforts on for at least a few casts (and apparently quite a few did!), that looked too good. I fired a cast into it and pulled a fish straight away. 'Thought so!' I said, I knew there'd be a fish or two there. I left it for a few minutes and then fired in another one. The bite was so gay - just the tiniest 'tap', and then the rod started to bend, and bend, and bend.....and BEND!
Mmm, it just had the solid weight of a big flattie (I'd been catching heaps of flatties too), and it cruised out into the open water where it started to kite in the current.
OK, so its a trev. Then it started playing up a bit and and I got a flash of a big silver flank - my next thoughts were classic - 'Yep, its a trev for sure - check out how big it is!'. Word on the street in the lead up to the comp was that anything over 30 was XOS for the Tweed.
I tightened up the drag a wee bit to put some hurt on the fish and hopefully get the fight over and done with asap, and I soon got him up near the surface where he did a cool fly by of the yak with his dorsal just out of the water, and I saw that he was a thumper bream - with the lure just pinned with the back hook in his top lip!
Oh shit!!! BACK OFF THE DRAG YOU IDIOT!!!!!
I think I nearly lost the spool over the side of the yak/boat ( ), but took it all nice and easy and slipped the net under a true specimen fish.
What a ripper!!
That upgraded my smallest fish, which - and this goes out as a warning - which was just on legal when I caught it, but had shrunk over a centimetre during its time in the Holiday Tank! I've never seen a fish do that before.
I then hooked up with Bob and Nick, and the heart started really pumping when Bob showed me his thumper he'd got around the same time as I got mine. His kicker was just a wee bit smaller than mine (mine was around 35 to the fork), but his other two looked a bit fatter than my other two. It was soooo close, and even when we were back in and beached next to eachother, we really couldn't tell who would take it out - it was pretty exciting.

All in all though, it was yet another great event. Massive thanks to Ben from Bunyips for coming down and cooking us a sizzle during the presentations. I'm keeping a note of all the sizzles this year, and so far, his snags have been the tastiest, although he did loose a point for not having BBQ sauce

Anyway guys.....you know whats coming next..........BEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
Oh, man, froth on - if you only do one round all season, or ever, BEMM is the one to do. Big fish, and heaps of them, and they love eating undigestable hardbodies and soft plastics.

Catch you there....

[robsea]

Well done Greg! Top report. See you on the Bemm.

rob

[Ratdog]

Good work Greggles, getting your nose in front of the locals in a tough fishery. See ya at Bemm and many more..