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Silver Bream; lost sight of the big fish around the reef's
Topic Started: Jul 1 2013, 07:21 PM (200 Views)
Ecofish1
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Hi guys, I have been targeting good size silver bream over the last couple of months with some good results.
My current drama is they have now gone from 35cm plus to 15cm in plague proportion.
Fantastic for fish population but not for catching.
Any ideas?
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Lefty
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I used to get big buggers as by-catch using muscles for Black Bream around yacht clubs and marinas.
Hooking them was a lot easier then getting them out though.
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Ecofish1
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I have tried the mussels with a long shank slipped through on ocean shore's
But the rass stepped up first.
So I tried the rass as bait and that keeps catching Wobbygon's even in the middle of the day.
Thanks for the imput
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Chess Shark
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Whats the deal with Wobbys - are you allowed to keep them?
PB Black Bream 48cm, PB Silver Bream [Tarwhine] 37cm, PB KG Whiting 52cm, PB Mulloway 18kg, PB Tailor 3kg,
PB Salmon 5kg, PB Snapper 3kg, PB Samson 25kg, PB Snook 75cm, PB Flathead 45cm, PB Gummie 100cm, PB Hammerhead 35kg
oh and.....
PB Blowfish - 24 in one trip
Herring are not a food fish they are best used as bait for bigger fish.....
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Yep, you can keep Wobbies. Tasted brilliant too, must be the diet of Crayfish, Crabs and other shell fish, but they are a pain in the arse to butcher.
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Ecofish, I'm guessing your talking about fishing the soft insides of the mussel on a longshank? I think the method Lefty is referring to is fishing a whole mussel (shell and all) on something similar to a G-lok hook. It's a good way to fish to get past the blowies, and you'll find it's the biggest bream that go for it. I just used to let it waft down unweighted next to the pylons at Yacht clubs, Jetties and bridges. Got smashed up by a lot of BIG bream. Lost more to the pylons than I landed.

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Lefty
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Spot on Moohan.
I'd even go a third bigger in size.
Not sure if it would work of the beach?

I lost 4 rigs in a row one day so I tied on a 20lb leader.
Pulled a 39cm Silver out with 3 of my hooks in it's mouth.
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splashback
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go to Walpole. pickers there are 35cm+ tarwhine. delicious too.
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Ecofish1
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Thanks Moohan I was using the whole mussel but the hook was undersized in comparison to your pic.
I will try the G lok and see what happens fishing the reef edges on the ocean side.
And for Chess the Wobbys are good but I agree with Moohan you need to do some serious surgury to fillet.
But you can catch them up to six foot during the middle of the day using Wrass circle hook and trace(patanoska) ^o)
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