Blackwood Bream
Submitted by Stevef on Sat, 2009-01-24 14:13
Hi, just got back from a couple of days camping with the Family by the Blackwood River near Augusta. It wasn't a fishing orientated trip but I got a couple of light sessions in over the time we were there.
Got 10 bream in total with smallest measuring 35cm and largest 42cm. Fish were caught on fresh tailor fillet and local live prawns. Tried some SP & hard bodies without any joy.
Kept this one (gut hooked) which measured 38cm, but released all the others as I couldn't be arsed cleaning them.
The Blackwood is a great place to fish, cant help but relax. Picture quality might be a bit ordinary as I only had my phone with me
Cheers
Steve
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Any blackie over 40 is bloody good, well done Steve!
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They certainly are nice fish
They certainly are nice fish Adam and they take a bit of landing on the 6lb gear. My wife actually picked up a blackie of 47cm there a couple of years ago. It was a horse of a fish
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Great Report Steve. Holidays are always a little more relaxing when you can catch some fish, for sure.
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I agree with Adds Steve
42cm is a beauty mate! Nice fat fish! Well done!
What did the damage Steve? Bait, SPs or HBs?
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All on bait Draemy. The SP
All on bait Draemy. The SP did generate any innterest, the HB got plenty of follows but no strikes
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Cheers Steve
Thats' interesting. What SPs where you using?
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choice report steve
great place to relax and fish
were abouts were you fishing? most of my fish have been around the lower ski area all on SP and HB.
probably head down next few weekends with stoinka hopefully and hit the blackie
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Hi Damo, The majority of the
Hi Damo,
The majority of the fish came from some snags just down from the Ski area. Fished steep banks wth some timber underneath. At some stages we could actually see the bream swimming up into the shallows.
My young bloke also picked up a hooter from the boat ramp at the caravan park as well, the fish went just under 40cm. Not bad for a 9 year old on 6lb line.
There were also plenty of tailor around that we got trolling in the river near the bottom of molloy island. Not big with most fish around 30cm
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If you can see the bream
moving around then looks like the water temperature is rising.....
thats a great catch for the young fellow, bet he's stoked and "hooked"....
did you head upstream from Alexandra bridge?
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Dreamy, tried with Gulp
Dreamy, tried with Gulp worms and shads, also small atomic gri=ubs with no joy at all.
Damo, stayed pretty close to Molloy Island actually, the trip was more of a family affair and we wouldnt have spent any more than say 4 hours fishing over the 5 days we were there. The water temp was reading a smidge under 23 degrees while we were there
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Cheers Steve...?
Where they red or cammo worms Steve?
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Red 6" Colin and the lighter
Red 6" Colin and the lighter red/white in the 2". I had run out of the camo colour, which do seem to work better.
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Agreed Steve!
I've found the cammo are MUCH better.
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That's a great bream
It looks like it has been doing well on the tucker bag.
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All the fish were really fat
All the fish were really fat Colin. I kept this one and the gut was chocka block full of crushed mussells.
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Again it wasn't a fishing weekend but i did see heaps of thumpers around the ferry on the island side. Not allowed to fish there though because the kids feed them and all that but they were huge. (i might risk getting kicked off the island next time just to get stuck into on of those.)
On another note, has anyone ever caught squid near the river mouth?