23/08/09
Last Sunday I had an opportunity to have a fish with Jay out at Mud Island and after spending the last two weeks snowboarding in NZ in freezing conditions, to come back to near summer days was heaven!! When we arrived at Mud Island for the dawn raid, the tide was at the bottom which really showed me the breaming potential that this island has on the flooding tide with the vast array of long flats, rubble bottoms and reefy outcrops that would make any breamer salivate with anticipation.
I started the morning fishing surface with my trusty Dog X Jr as Jay switched between plastics and hardbodies to cover all our bases to seek out what would fire up these bay bream. Although the morning started slow on the bream front, it wasn’t too long until I was on to my winter favourite ...good old squid!! After watching a Thorpedo like bow wave approach my surface lure, it wasn’t too long till we had dinner sorted with a few squid coming on board in quick succession. Working our way around the southern tip of the island, we encountered a strange fog pattern around the island that stayed with us all morning and made visibility poor but great for topwater fishing as we became invisible to the line of sight of feeding predators. As the fog thickened, I nabbed a slender post spawn bream at 25.5cm fork length that was cruising the shallows for an early feed. Soon after I was on again with topwater being the pick of the techniques bringing on board a nice fat 26cm bream who fell victim to the Dog X Jr’s mysterious ways!!
The next hour was pretty non eventful besides, one : Our run in with a school of tailor and bonito which resulted in a near loss of a $35 lure (Whoopsy), two: Jay hooking a nice bream while chasing tailor and bonito (Damn bream) and three: Me hooking a bird by the leg as it flew into my line while fishing topwater!! (Thanks Jay for the bird calming techniques during hook removal).
All in all a great day out on the water and it was even better to be back in our beautiful summer weather and I’m sure if this weather keeps heating up, so will the breaming action in the next couple of months!!!
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