hi everyone

[DaveO]

hi dave here from sunny porthedland,ive been reading with interest over the last couple of years about competion bream fishing,a long forgotten fish up here,i would love to get down to perth and have a go.up here we catch bream with a whole mulie and ganged 4\0 hooks (a buy catch from jacks) does anyone out there use plastics in the tropics,please drop me a line

[BoofHed]

hI DAVE AND WELCOME TO THIS SIGHT.
I go up to porthedland and fish but ive only been using sps for 4 mths but next trip u can bet ill have some 3" and bigger if i can get them. I expect all hell will break lose using them in the tidal creeks of the 80mile beach. i can't wail.
Bruce

I don' know 100% about soft plastics on your northern bream - my educated guess would be they will probably climb in the boat to get em outta your tackle box - the few I've caught on fly up at the Burrup were oyster crunchers out at the end of flying foam passage and they were about as aggressive a bream as I've ever seen.

If those northern bream take soft plastics anyting like they do flies - then - you should have zero trouble hooking and landing any number of them. I'd class them as an 'easey' target compared to their southen black breram cousins.

The few I managed down at Shark bay were likewise huge and willing takers so it appears to me at least that - theres potentially a great fishery for them on Sp's in the more northern climes.

No doubt others here would know more about them as far as Sp's - I'd be amazed if they acn't be reglarly and easily taken.

About my only 'reservation' wouldn't be the atual Sp's themselves - it would be in the ability of the lightweight gear these guys use to knock the norther black bream over quick enough to be able to land them before something else up[ there makes lunch outta them.

I saw so many small back tips and bull sharks in the shallow bream country up there - and they seem so easily excitable that i could imagine a lot of northern blackies would either 1 get eaten or 2 breal leaders / light fireline on all the oyster encrusted mangroves roots and rocks up there.

The fly caught ones I managed were all being knocked over fairly quick on 20 tippets, they just LOVED a pink over white clouser fly.

Keen to hear how you get on with SP's.

Cheers & good luck.

[DaveO]

thanks for the replies,if your ever up here email me ,i have the spots just need to get past the jacks,i have tried plastics but mainly caught gts,i have caught bream on hard bodies,but hard to break habits.cheers dave