GoldenHourFishing

Thats awesome, Sydney samson fish, not something you see everyday. Well done

Nice mate, they are so much fun off the top, this time of year is always something I look forward to. Sometime they absolutley smash them. Ive also been putting in some hours targeting them on surface.

Hey mate, walk down to your right along patonga creek, if you can get your hands on a yabbie pump there are nippers everywhere. Once you have 10-20 of them in a bucket just chuck them on a small long shank hook and a small sinker and it wont be long before you are pulling in bream and whiting, gorgeous location I havent fixhed it in years, but back when I used to use bait I did a couple of times. And you can always go for a dip if you feel like it, the water quality is really nice.

If you are hooking leather jackets its most likely because the lure is sitting there for long periods, they are grazers and slow movers, Also if you are fishing for bream on large dropoffs where you need to lift them, then it tells me you are most likely looking for other fish, not bream specifically. There is no need to fish deep water and needing to lift them up high embankments, why? Because your local bays, rivers and saltwater creeks all hold bream, and you can stand at water level. Bream arent hard once you know what they like and how to fish for them (definitley not as hard as jew on lures) Everyone has there methods but here is some that work for me personally: When you are land based, on high tide cast sideways at the banks, aim the lure about 2-3 meters out from the bank, they are usually on the edges in the warmer months and especially around high tide. Small double hops with your plastic with maybe 2-3 second pauses, rinse and repeat, when you feel a tap, leave it and wait for the strike. Fish a 1/16 or lighter in a size #1 or #2, bream tend to like a lighter presentation, you will often feel the hit on the drop as it slowly flutters back to the bottom Stay mobile, if you havent got a hit in about 10 casts move a few meters down the bank, you are lure fishing, so you need to find the fish, not the other way around. Use scent. It really does work, especially in the darker water where the fishes vision may not be the best When you are confident, start throwing hard up against pylons, logs etc, bream love that stuff Be prepared to lose lots of lures, much like bass fishing you are looking for a species that loves to hide amongst sketchy stuff, so plastics if definitley the way to go for beginners, id argue more fun than hardbodies too, especially when you time the hooksets perfectly, makes them run hard. Good luck.

The carp in the parra dont seem to take lures that much but in the nepean I have had them chase down cranks and hit plastics. Funny how different locations can make fish behave differently. Maybe they vary in strains and temperament.

It is, but it fires up in the warmer months especially in the harbour. Ive been throwing land based maybe 8 times over the last 2 months and havent got much to show for it. The warmer water brings larger quantities of pelagics into the harbour, you will definitley get more numbers between say November - March You can get tailor and salmon in the winter but you will get those and more in the warmer months. Its also worth noting that the bait balls will be higher up in the water during these months, so ripping small 20 - 30 gram metals through the water is lethal during this time. You can also try directly under the harbour bridge, on the luna park side but it gets pretty packed on the weekends, chuck a sickie during the week and you are good, I havent had much luck there but plenty of other people pull quality fish from there.

Blue Point reserve is a very popular spot for shore jigging, and there are many videos on YT so its not any big secret. Ive started throwing 30 gram metals again, stuff like the palms dax range, duo also make some ok ones. On the cheaper side you can get some nomad metals that work just as well. Rods are typically more pricey because they will need to be long and light, as you will be casting for hours, and believe me it can leave you as sore as a good gym session. On the lighter side you can go with a 3000 reel with a 10ft rod and some 10-12lb braid (But you will be in trouble with anthing bigger than a rat) I have one of these combos and its great in the surf. Give <retailer removed, PM for details > a visit they are super knowledgeable and wont just try to rape your pocket, if you dont live close just call them and give them your budget. You can import reels from JP to save some money but I generally get my rods from here in AUS, because whatever you save on price you will be paying for in oversized shipping charges.

This is not related to what was being thrown in front of them but rather there reaction to one being hooked up and spooking the rest of the school. I would have come back in an hour or so and grabbed another one.

That location isnt good for topwater Why: Its suuuuper deep, legend has it that some parts of the lake are so deep that sonar didnt get a bounce back reading. When its that deep, there is a lot of water between the surface and the bass, less chance they are going to notice something wiggling on the surface of the water So basically if you dont have a kayak, you arent going to be able to chuck lures under low hanging vegetation in the shallower water, this is generally where the bass are sitting. You can get them out in open water with surface lures, but its a lot less common and better chance at sunset or complete darkness. Its also a big lake that is stocked, none of them are wild so finding them can be tricky, many of them go over the dam wall when it floods or they release water, so better numbers can be found down by the wier. At the end of the day you will just have to spend hours out on the water, there is no real substitute for that

This is easy for me to answer - TOPWATER Nothing like coaxing a fish to the surface to watch it smash your lure, dont care if its bass, salmon or tailor theres nothing like it. One of the best parts of fishing in the warmer months is the topwater bite, very exciting and super addictive. Cant wait for spring, I think bass will be my first target

Ah cheers mate, I just assume people already know how to work lures, but yeah I could. Any lures in particular?

Hey mate, for small hardbodies like cranks etc I either use my surgical forceps or my micro split ring pliers, samaki make them if you want to purchase home grown but there are plenty of jdm versions too. The big ones are easy, any long nose pliers can do the job but feel free to buy any standard split ring pliers if you feel the need.

Yep and for me its the one you are using. I never catch anything on those Diesel minnow profile paddle tails. Maybe 2 flathead like ever. I always use the thinner profile slim swimz or easy shiners. And I catch a much wider array of species on them too. In relation to you getting busted off on 12lb with that lure its almost certainly a good size jew or a big flathead, but if you were fishing the parra I would say most likely jew. Big flathead are super rare in the parra I have found. I got a 60cm jew on the Parra 2 nights ago on 6lb with a 2.5 prolure grub, good fun. But I bring this up to say, there are definitley jew around so I would say stick it out if that is what works for you. I dont know what leader to braid knot you are using but if you had no leader left at all I would suggest using the FG knot, assuming you arent already.

Its been a minute since I have posted. Winter tends to bring the chunkier models up river. Hope you guys are getting out and chucking a line in

Ah yes, I thought so. Thanks