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Headed to the Port River on Saturday morning and was in the water at 6:30am chucking a few HB around. Wasn't having much luck, plenty of small bream with nothing over 30cm.
The wind picked by 10am so I headed to the other side of the river and was paddling around trying to locate some fish by sight. I found a small shallow drainage creek with some medium sized bream in it and had a few casts, but each time, the fish all bolted when the lightly weighted plastic hit the water. So I got my lunch out and ate it while watching the water, while sitting there regular schools of big bream were swimming past.
After l had eaten I had another flick with HB's and plastics and again the bream took off when it hit the water. Then I thought I would try something different, I dropped the 65mm gary glitter squidge wriggler in the water just using my wrist to jig it about 10cm up and down, staying perfectly still. I was doing this for about one minute when I spotted another school of big bream heading towards me (the water was crystal clear).
The 2 smaller fish in front made a b line to the plastic, and one sucked it in......whack the hook was set. Now I should mention at this stage that I was surrounded by some really heavy snags. The bream took off and put on quite a show and even with a virtually locked drag I nearly lost him in the snags a few times, but I got him in the end and he measured 37cm. As he was one of the smaller fish from that school I was getting quite excited by this stage and re rigged (the hook was nearly straightened...was lucky to get him in) and dropped the plastic back in the same position. 2 mins later, another school.....1 medium sized fish swam up and sucked it in....whack.....if the last one fought well this thing went nuts....after a nerve wracking fight a 43cm beast was in my home made hessian net.
After that, I lost a bigger one that straightened the hook....so I put on a heavier gauge hook and kept fishing.....landed another at 37cm and one at 39cm. Then the schools just stopped moving past....but I was happy. There were some bloody big fish in those schools....much bigger then 43cm.
This was all on 4lb line, 8lb leader, $30 rex hunt reel with a great drag (came with a glass rod for that price), and a Berkley drop shot rod "(which I love and performed really well).
I cant wait to hit this spot again....Hopefully I can pull a few more stonkers out......fingers crossed this wasn't a one off event.
All fish were released
It was amazing to see fish of that size swim up, stop dead and suck the lure in, then not move at all. I mean, I already knew that is what they do, but it was amazing to actually see it. The line didn't even twitch at all........makes you realise how many takes from big fish you must get, and not even know......
The wind picked by 10am so I headed to the other side of the river and was paddling around trying to locate some fish by sight. I found a small shallow drainage creek with some medium sized bream in it and had a few casts, but each time, the fish all bolted when the lightly weighted plastic hit the water. So I got my lunch out and ate it while watching the water, while sitting there regular schools of big bream were swimming past.
After l had eaten I had another flick with HB's and plastics and again the bream took off when it hit the water. Then I thought I would try something different, I dropped the 65mm gary glitter squidge wriggler in the water just using my wrist to jig it about 10cm up and down, staying perfectly still. I was doing this for about one minute when I spotted another school of big bream heading towards me (the water was crystal clear).
The 2 smaller fish in front made a b line to the plastic, and one sucked it in......whack the hook was set. Now I should mention at this stage that I was surrounded by some really heavy snags. The bream took off and put on quite a show and even with a virtually locked drag I nearly lost him in the snags a few times, but I got him in the end and he measured 37cm. As he was one of the smaller fish from that school I was getting quite excited by this stage and re rigged (the hook was nearly straightened...was lucky to get him in) and dropped the plastic back in the same position. 2 mins later, another school.....1 medium sized fish swam up and sucked it in....whack.....if the last one fought well this thing went nuts....after a nerve wracking fight a 43cm beast was in my home made hessian net.
After that, I lost a bigger one that straightened the hook....so I put on a heavier gauge hook and kept fishing.....landed another at 37cm and one at 39cm. Then the schools just stopped moving past....but I was happy. There were some bloody big fish in those schools....much bigger then 43cm.
This was all on 4lb line, 8lb leader, $30 rex hunt reel with a great drag (came with a glass rod for that price), and a Berkley drop shot rod "(which I love and performed really well).
I cant wait to hit this spot again....Hopefully I can pull a few more stonkers out......fingers crossed this wasn't a one off event.
All fish were released
It was amazing to see fish of that size swim up, stop dead and suck the lure in, then not move at all. I mean, I already knew that is what they do, but it was amazing to actually see it. The line didn't even twitch at all........makes you realise how many takes from big fish you must get, and not even know......
