trying baits

[sedgez900]

gidday fishos fished the Hopkins in morning on the water for 5 hours with one fish bagged 31 cm bream now let me tell the bait I had garden worms chicken cut mullet prawns not a cracker had a couple left over clickers in freezer one clicker one fish and that was it any way they cant bein hungry or I was in wrong part of river

[Woollies]

A couple of tips:

1 Fish unwaited
2 downsize leader weight and upgrade leader length
3 try a different stretch of the river

[drewb]

just the way bream are sometimes I reckon... finicky fish when they're not in the mood.

[nafa]

Last time I fished the Hopkins the light line which I alternated baits on got hammered by undersize Bream and Mullet. Soon as it hit the water, bang. I had a big piece of squid head out on a 3/0 hook on 25 pound line hoping for a passing Jewie that I had casted right out into the guts of the river with the drag backed right off. Sure enough overhead went off with a scream, surf rod buckled over I thought here we go and landed a Bream just short of 18 inches. So goes to show that fishing light lines and delicate baits does not always get the results.