hard bodies and bream

Slick-Ackers · #1 12-02-2011, 09:02 AM

hey guys i usually use soft plastics and surface lures when chasing bream but today i had a mad session chasin aussie bass with a strike pro pygmy and ill probably be trying the little diving hard bodies for bream and i was just wondering if you guys had any advice?

twelsh1 · #2 12-02-2011, 09:16 AM

Eco Gear SX40

Slick-Ackers · #3 12-02-2011, 09:17 AM

yer i would use that if i had one ahah

TheChief · #4 12-02-2011, 07:29 PM

Khamsins, Daiwa pressos, chubby minnows, colt minnows, Atomic shads and bream shads, Cranka shads and cranks.

Slick-Ackers · #5 12-02-2011, 07:49 PM

i have bream lures guys i just want some advice on how and where to use them to get some success

ginga ninja · #6 13-02-2011, 01:23 AM

hey mate, try using them around structure of some form such as weedbeds, pylons, pontoons, sunken timber and drop offs. as for the retrieve try a few different ones such as a slow roll and twitch and pause. good luck with the bream mate

watshisface · #7 13-02-2011, 02:44 AM

Any structure is a bream magnet, weed beds, flats, snags, drop offs and bridges. when your over flats try for a floating lure that dives a little bit deeper than the water you're fishing; crank it down, bang it on the bottom and let it float up a little and repeat that till its all the way in. Near snags go for a suspending lure, cast it as close a possible give it a wiggle and a crank and just let it hang there. In weed beds target sandy holes surrounded by weed and use a shallow diving floating or suspending hardbody. In deep channels vibes and blades are always worth a try.
Hope this helps good luck

Bear · #8 14-02-2011, 09:34 AM

Best advice I can give is don't use the same all day if it's not working. Even if it's just a colour change, look to change you lure every 20mins or so. Try different diving depths, shapes and once you get your confidence then you can play with different retrieves and more.

Slick-Ackers · #9 15-02-2011, 04:38 AM

thanks mate is there any sort of under water terrain you would prefer to use hard bodys around? (i dont know if thats how i should put it)

stompy · #10 15-02-2011, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Slick-Ackers

thanks mate is there any sort of under water terrain you would prefer to use hard bodys around? (i dont know if thats how i should put it)

Hey,

I like flow and plenty of it, areas around rock walls or natural banks that have eddy's and the like. Some days the fish like the lure coming with the tide other times against it.

Best bet is to get out on dead low tide, look for rubble beds, ribbon weed with broken sand, oyster/ rock bars, coffee rock, reef ect. Basically any thing that some shelter or looks like a fish can lay in ambush.

Cheers,

welshy22 · #11 15-02-2011, 06:22 AM

come fishing with me and ill teach you ackers :P

Slick-Ackers · #12 15-02-2011, 06:53 AM

yer and ill teach you how to surface aha

Bear · #13 15-02-2011, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Slick-Ackers

thanks mate is there any sort of under water terrain you would prefer to use hard bodys around? (i dont know if thats how i should put it)

Not really, and as much as I like plastics these days, and vibes, I find I'm using hards again when there are times when the others just don't seem to get a hit. What I have found it that They are great for bumping along and over things where the plstics would sink and get caught or get too far in to pull a fish out. JMO.

Slick-Ackers · #14 16-02-2011, 04:28 AM

hey guys im pretty sure iv got this hardbody action down pat ahah i caught 2 bream today on the atomic hardz shad and i also lost about 5 aha which was quite devostating when i seen a nice 32cm specimen come up behind and turning its head at the last minute aha but just makes me want to get out there and get him next time