We fished around 6:30pm-9pm. 2.5 hrs fishing is better than nothing. Didn't check wind, barometer, etc (I normally do). Just rod, reel, bag full of lures. We landed three EPs. No trout, no yellowbelly. Biggest was 31cm.
Caught one EP on 2in paddle tail soft plastic in green colour with 1/16 #2 jig head and two on ecogear MX dark back with orange belly.
Simple technique, cast along the edge where usually there's a gap between the edge and the weed, retrieve along it. Vary the retrieve for the soft plastic but the ecogear mx being suspending, was superb during the pause, got few hits on the pause.
Can also cast to the weed, hop the soft plastic just on top of the weed.
Ecogear MX is a shallow dive suspending hardbody, no issue to cast into the weed and it'll be just on top of the weed and the EP will come out from the weed to hit it. Any shallow hardbodies will do, doesn't have to be ecogear MX. Suspending is even better, as it doesn't float right up on the pause.
.
Second unplanned fishing session was today.
Mrs got late shift and so I got couple hours of fishing after work before picking her up from her workplace.
Inspired by Purple5's bream catches, a mate and I were keen to look for bream. We know metro bream can be very hard to catch, but out of the three (nong, yarra, docks), I know yarra bream is the easiest to fool. So we went to yarra.
Again, didn't really check the weather etc just for couple hours flicking lures. I checked after I got home. Something like 50% moon and set around 1pm, so no moon at the time fishing 7-9pm. Peak high tide 9pm. Flat barometer 1001.
Water was still a little murky but was okay, good enough to fish. I mean, its yarra. Most of the time it's dirty.
Started with TT switch blade and Strike Pro micro vibe, targetting the poles around the mooring boats. Nothing...
Around 8pm, saw few bream flashing close to the edge, changed to zman grub 2in motor oil, 1/28 #2 hidden weight jig head. Followed, tapped by small bream, but couldn't get a hook-up.
Changed the leader from a rod length 6lb fluorocarbon to a 3 rod length fluorocarbon 4lb. Put a lot of s-factor. And tap tap bang! 23cm bream. Walked about 25m and bang! Another bream at 27cm. Then the last around 9pm was a solid 32cm.
All I did was cast, close the bail arm straight away after the plastic hits the water, keep the line tight for constant connection with the lure without moving the lure too much. Super slow roll on the bottom and a long pause. Almost like bait fishing.
.
While catching bream on lures in the Yarra is possible for me, I am still holding a donut record for marybrnong bream on lures.
