MyFish 12-7-09 (A Perfect Day On The Bay)

12-7-09

Last weekend was part two to Tommy Slater and my prefish antics for the up and coming Gold Coast Dash for Cash comp in a couple of weeks. After covering the Goldy last weekend we were keen to check out the breaming activity of the Bay Islands especially Peel and Coochiemudlo.
With the forecast for an awesome day of light winds, we shot off from Cleveland whose parking lot resembled a shopping centre’s as many anglers took advantage of the great daybreak. Our first port of call was the shallow flats off Peel Island where we decided to chase the bream up in the shallows in hope their feeding time was approaching. No sooner had we stopped, I was onto fish our first fish a nice 26cm fork bream nabbed on a Megabass Dog X jr in less than 1.5ft of water .A great start considering Tom was still tying his line!!
We continued to pepper the shallows fishing surface with our Dog X jr’s with Tom getting absolutely smashed on his ‘modified’ lure by a healthy 29cm fork bream after only a handful of casts. Our first five fish came in pretty quick succession all on top-water so then we decided to attack another lot of good flats but this time fishing as a team with Tom throwing a shallow running hardbody in a Zipbait Khamsin SR and I continued to fish top-water with the Dog X jr. This system can be really handy in a comp situation as it covers all the bases with bream trailing behind the Dog X jr often get picked up by the following shallow hardbody. After a few surface hits on my Dog X Jr, Tom nailed our bream of the day on his Zipbait being 29.5cm fork length and what it lacked in length it picked up in width as it was built like a front rower!! Tom’s choice of gear was a 7’4” Slaterstick Custom rod matched with a Daiwa Gekkabijin 2004 spooled with 3lb Stren Microfuse and 6lb FC Rock Fluoro leader.
Fish of the day was my 45cm fork Tailor caught while fishing top-water. With more leaps than a frog on hotplate, it was certainly a “battle royal” especially with only 6lb leader and the life of my Dog X Jr hinging on my fighting ability!!! My lure survived to fight another day only to look like it’s been chewed by a Jack Russell for two hours!! After a long drift chasing breambo’s, we decided to have a quick cast for squid which we had noticed frolicking in the shallows chasing our top-water baits. Using my favourite blue Yozuri Squid jig it was too long before it was “EGI Time” and Tom’s family had their dinner on board. In the next half an hour, we (I mean ‘I’) pulled in another few more squid before we did a quick run to Coochiemudlo to see if there was further bream action on some weedy flats to the north-east corner. After only picking up a few undersize squeakers, we decided to leave the glassy conditions of the Bay and head home.
It was great to see that boating is such a popular past time in our state with the amount of boats in the bay on Sunday. I guess the combination of weather and the magnificent playgrounds we possess, how could you not own a boat!!
Safe Boating, Grayson