Breamin' - Squidgy Rnd 3 pre-fish

This coming sunday is the 3rd round of the Squidgy Southern Bream Series which will be held on Port Hacking, so I needed some practice. First off, Lachlan and I set off to the Georges River (yeah, I know, it's not the Hacking) and trolled a couple of HB's for one just legal fish and three undersize ones.

Before heading back in, we scooted over to some boats and flicked out a SP. Boy, was I glad we did! This fish grabbed it on the drop and bolted. Lots of drag singing before we could control him and when it came up, Lachlan says "It's a monster, Dad!" and he wasn't far off, either.

This bruiser went 43 cms total length and was easily over a kilo. The fish even makes Lachlan look small! Of course, this guy went back into the water after the photo and Lachlan now knows that the big ones deserve another run and he quickly sets them on their way.

Earlier this week, Gary and I did hit the Port Hacking in his tinnie and we had a brilliant day. The bream were out in force and I hope they are there for this weekend, too. We moved around a lot to get our fish though and they fell for a range of HB's and SP's, with neither one standing out from the crowd.

As a bonus, on one retrieve, Gary noticed some squid in pursuit. We quickly rigged up some squid jigs and proceeded to pull eight of these super tasty cephallopods into the boat. Oh man, I can't wait for the salt and pepper squid later on. The colours on these things are amazing. Check out the electric blue dashed lines on the guy in the photo above.

So all up, Gary and I landed a dozen comp legal (25cm fork) bream, with the biggest being 36cm fork. Our five bag weighed in at 3.6 kgs, which we'd be happy with in any competition. Plus we both dropped some big fish, and I'm confident if we hadn't chased the squid for an hour that we would've eclipsed the 4 kg mark.

I'm sure there'll be some cracker bags brought back this weekend and hopefully, one of them will be mine. I guess there'll be about fifty boats and maybe twenty kayaks or more, so if you can make it to the weigh-in at 2 pm at Swallow Rock Reserve, Greys Point, you'll see some excellent fish.

And lets hope a yakker gets the Big Bream award, too. : )

Happy yakkin', everyone!

cheers,
Cid