Dave W
03-02-2003, 04:20 AM
Hi all.....
I don't know whether you've all seen the results yet but if you're interested they're here in the results section:
http://www.fishingmonthly.com.au/~bream/index.html
To say the fishing was difficult would be a severe understatement - simply put, 38 anglers caught 19 fish, with 27 of them getting nothing.
The weather was pretty good, a bit of wind came up later in the day but otherwise the kind of weather I like - overcast.
Of the 19 caught, I'm fairly sure 5 or so of them were caught in the last hour of the comp - I know the amount of hits I got in that last hour would probably equal the number I got during the rest of the tournament.
You could see the fish actively feeding on pylons, and if you wanted to, almost poke them with the tip of your rod.
To give you an idea of what I went through, I tried 40+ different types/colours of plastics and 10 or so different hard bodies with my only fish coming on a cut down 2" Berkely Powerbait Powergrub in Smoke/Red Glitter, with the tail dipped in Flouro Red Spike-It Crawfish scent, fished off a 1/32 Oz Round 211 Gamakatsu jig head. I was using 4lb Fireline with a 2.5m leader of 6lb Siglon Flourocarbon.
For my measly 440 gram fish, I came 7th as a boater, earning $200 dollars for the effort, and 10th overall - I'm pretty happy as it was my first B.R.E.A.M. event and a great learning experience.
Some of the big names and regulars of the B.R.E.A.M. series drew a blank, so it just goes to show you that these Bream can be a fickle species.
The comp boundaries didn't really help us too much - with the boat show going on, a lot of our 'fishable' area was taken up with pleasure boats checking out the sights.
Just to make sure the fish were still there, on the way back to the ramp after the comp, 'Mad Dog' Royter put a couple of casts into one of his spots outside the boundary areas, and promptly pulled a 30cm fish out.
The good thing was the fantastic publicity the event generated, and the weigh-ins were a big crowd pleaser - hopefully the response will provide us with more area to fish next year
:)
Bring on the Clyde round in N.S.W. - hopefully a few more fish;)
Due to the lack of fish, not a great deal of pics but here's a couple anyway:
Cheers,
I don't know whether you've all seen the results yet but if you're interested they're here in the results section:
http://www.fishingmonthly.com.au/~bream/index.html
To say the fishing was difficult would be a severe understatement - simply put, 38 anglers caught 19 fish, with 27 of them getting nothing.
The weather was pretty good, a bit of wind came up later in the day but otherwise the kind of weather I like - overcast.
Of the 19 caught, I'm fairly sure 5 or so of them were caught in the last hour of the comp - I know the amount of hits I got in that last hour would probably equal the number I got during the rest of the tournament.
You could see the fish actively feeding on pylons, and if you wanted to, almost poke them with the tip of your rod.
To give you an idea of what I went through, I tried 40+ different types/colours of plastics and 10 or so different hard bodies with my only fish coming on a cut down 2" Berkely Powerbait Powergrub in Smoke/Red Glitter, with the tail dipped in Flouro Red Spike-It Crawfish scent, fished off a 1/32 Oz Round 211 Gamakatsu jig head. I was using 4lb Fireline with a 2.5m leader of 6lb Siglon Flourocarbon.
For my measly 440 gram fish, I came 7th as a boater, earning $200 dollars for the effort, and 10th overall - I'm pretty happy as it was my first B.R.E.A.M. event and a great learning experience.
Some of the big names and regulars of the B.R.E.A.M. series drew a blank, so it just goes to show you that these Bream can be a fickle species.
The comp boundaries didn't really help us too much - with the boat show going on, a lot of our 'fishable' area was taken up with pleasure boats checking out the sights.
Just to make sure the fish were still there, on the way back to the ramp after the comp, 'Mad Dog' Royter put a couple of casts into one of his spots outside the boundary areas, and promptly pulled a 30cm fish out.
The good thing was the fantastic publicity the event generated, and the weigh-ins were a big crowd pleaser - hopefully the response will provide us with more area to fish next year
:)
Bring on the Clyde round in N.S.W. - hopefully a few more fish;)
Due to the lack of fish, not a great deal of pics but here's a couple anyway:
Cheers,