Advice needed

[tilapia_stalker]

Hey all,

I'm an avid fly fisher and would like to give it a go on the salt, i have given it a half assed attempt before at Tamboon inlet but only managed a 5cm Mullet on a bare size 12 hook off the jetty. any patterns that you have used on bream or more to the point salmon would be greatly appreciated as i am hitting them hard this winter and dont want to be throwing around the stuff im tying at home now.

[User Removed]

bream you cant go past something like an olive BMS white a pink or red tail. you should be fine with a clolection of clousers surf candies and some very small gummy minows or eye flies. i have had great succes on salmon with a lumo fly.
stuart

[Huggy_B]

If salmon are on the chew then they will literaly hit anything thats moving. Try throwing bead headed clousers (particularly with a long tail section) and ripping them through the schools on a quick strip. I'd recommend an 8wt, I was close to losing my line a few times on a 6wt when we had a prolific number of salmon here last year.

Bream is a new arena for me, but I have done "ok" in the Swan and Frankland river. Nothing special though, the same basics apply - imitate what they eat. I use an intermediate sinking line and a selection from:

crazy charlies
muz wilson fuzzels and fuzzel buggers
any prawn/yabbie imitations



my best success on bream (which admitedlly is quite limited) has been with fuzzel buggers in olive, brown and emerald (which looks black). Coincidently they work well on trout...

[Mickyj]

Green was a very good colour for me when chasing bream two years ago.
Last year Yellow worked better .

with Bream (and I havent landed anything huge) if you are using a fly that sinks .what I found the best thing to do is cast your fly let it sink count 10 then two strips let the fly sink and repeat .Depending on the depth of water if ist really deep or the Bream are slow count to 20 or 30 between strips.
On the surface from my reading and personal experience's most of the time if u let your surface fly (gurgler popper etc) just sit .The fish will"NORMALLY" attack it .But sometimes they will hit the surface fly when its moving .

Salmon as said will hit anything only caught what we call Salmon Trout here which are baby salmon.
Had and lost some school mulloway on Fly .
Was having a running battle with Garfish on surface poppers earlier in the year before I injured my knee .Yep walked out the water and bang happens when u get old .

Just about anything will take a fly in the sea.

cheers

[slider65]

i have been having some success over the last few months using squimps on an intermediate line for shallow water, I have also been playing with some jelly prawn patterns that are looking promising when fished on a floating line around mangroves at high tide.