[Jeffo]

Well, I signed off on one of the goals for this season by getting my first decent bream from the Minamurra on, you guessed it, a bloody SX 40. Picked one up in Sydney last weekend & it did the trick nicely.

I fished towards the front of the river this week & after scouting a couple of guys in a stink boat getting some decent bream a few weeks ago I did what any self respecting fisho would do and copied. I paddled around where they were previously fishing with the fishfinder on & lo & behold discovered a nice deep hole.

I anchored on the edge of the drop off & cast the SX 40 into the hole (they cast really well).

Took me about 15-20 casts trialing different retrieves, but using a slow retrieve I got a good hit, not much action in the run at first but then a big long run & that unmistakable feel of a bream, I was fishing 2 kg & he put up a really good fight, diving deep each time he come anywhere near the surface, at one point taking a run straight for the bank towards a few snags, I tightened the drag slightly & managed to turn him. It seemed to take most of the fight out of fish with it coming back to the yak easily, one last dive near the yak but got the rod tip up & into the net.

Great fun,

Cheers

Jeffo

 

[Peril]

Congrats Jeffo. I'm sure there'll be many more over the next few months

 

[troppo]

Good on ya, Jeffo. Nice looking country ya in. Would have been beaut having a paddle and fish in that creek. Water looks clean and clear. And a nice bream too.

 

[paffoh]

Niceeeeee....

Good ol SX40's, congratulations on the report & great photos too!

Well done mate 8)

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

Red.

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[bazzoo]

Jeffo, thats a nice way to answer one of my posts about "are there any big bream in the minnamurra", nice one mate , still intend heading down there soon , will pm you

 

[Fishing Man]

nice work mate,

seems those ecogears are getting quite a following on the bream scene,

 

[Jeffo]

thanks very much guys.

Bazz if your down this way, I'd be more than happy to take you out. The espri will love this kind of water