[fisher]

Last saturday, Scupper and I thought we would have another crack at those big Seacliff snook, but conditions were poor so we headed for the sheltered waters of West Lakes.
We both scored a number of small bream (25cm or so), with Scupper getting plenty of fish that were only slightly larger than the sx48 he was using - looks like they try and fight outside their category!
I drifted along a rock wall and picked up a nice 32cm fish, and then drifted along a nice looking beach area and picked up a 40cm beauty - both fish caught on an sx40.
Things were a bit of a hassle all day - first my transducer came loose making the sounder useless ; then I found the batteries were dead in my camera then i noticed my watch was missing (fortunately found on the beach later).
I had a range of spare batteries on the yak, but none of them carried enough charge to get the camera working, so unfortunately I don't have any fresh pics. I decided to keep these fish to give to my folks, so the only pics I have were taken at home.
Re the transducer - in my haste to get it installed I forgot to sand the plastic on the yak first - it stuck for a couple of months but eventually came away enough to prevent any signal being retrieved.

 

[YakAtak]

Whoa, that's a big bream, nice one mate. 8)

 

[Davey G]

some days nothing goes right...

and some days nothing goes right, but you still come home with a few nice fish

well done mate.

 

[Dodge]

I drifted along a rock wall and picked up a nice 32cm fish, and then drifted along a nice looking beach area and picked up a 40cm beauty - both fish caught on an sx40.

Re the transducer - in my haste to get it installed I forgot to sand the plastic on the yak first - it stuck for a couple of months but eventually came away enough to prevent any signal being retrieved.

Fisher the problems are incidental when you can boat a 40cms bream, a lovely fish.

Yes sanding the hull is vital, I had the same experience, but after roughing up the hull properly a second time it has cured the problem despite heat and regular upside down transporting on van

 

[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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[Peril]

That's a great bream. As Dodge points out, little else matters after that.

Red, habitat makes the difference. As benthic feeders, bream will take on the taste of the bottom. In the estuaries, that often means rotting organic matter. Off the beaches, it is usually beautiful clean sand

 

[paffoh]

Nice fish & way to go on retrieving the watch on the beach 8)

Well done...

 

[bazzoo]

hogans ghost, thats one horse of a bream, nice one mate, gotta be a p.b.

 

[JW]

Sounds like a great trip guys, nice fish

 

[Gator]

Hey Fisher: Looks like you had a "Duncan" sort of day, well barr catching a fish anyway :lol:

Good OnYa.

 

[bushwoodboy]

Hi Fisher,that is a real quality bream, well done. Red , I've also found that surf caught or open water caught bream can have a vastly different flavor.Quite partial to surf caught, some estuary bream almost inedible. Usually take fillets off whole fish , then skin. Mal.

 

[Dodge]

Red, habitat makes the difference. As benthic feeders, bream will take on the taste of the bottom. In the estuaries, that often means rotting organic matter. Off the beaches, it is usually beautiful clean sand

One of the best examples of Dave's point is the mullet; a mullet from the surf is as good a tasting fish as you would want to eat, but after a couple of weeks in an estuary they are not even a fit feed for a dung beetle.

The surf mullet also performs better as bait so predators think the same

 

[Naki Man]

Re the transducer - in my haste to get it installed I forgot to sand the plastic on the yak first - it stuck for a couple of months but eventually came away enough to prevent any signal being retrieved.

If you throw a couple of cups of water in the yak, it sometimes gets them working again until you can fix it. (if they're up the right way)

 

[fisher]

If you throw a couple of cups of water in the yak, it sometimes gets them working again until you can fix it.

well done Naki Man - its a simple idea but I would never have thought of that! - quite obvious now that you've mentioned it, although with the effort I've gone to to keep water out of the yak, i'm not sure I could bring myself to do that!