After a hectic start to our Tassie tour with two comps and a prefish, we finally had our first and only recreation fishing day. I love recreational fishing as you go out with no plans or pressure to perform and it's the sort of days that keep rekindling the passion for our aquatic hobby.Tristo and I had been given the good oil from our mate Tommy Slater on a fishery which he believes is close to bream heaven called Ansons Bay. Being only 40mins drive from St Helens, it would be a shame to not check out the hype as we had heard along the local grapevine this place rocks. Armed with a mud map, two iced teas and leftover supreme pizza we headed north in search of this untapped oasis to test our developing skills against Tassie's finest.
On arrival to this quaint little town not much separated it from your typical outback town except the lack of a PUB!!! Come to think of it, any shops!! Lining the bay were some awesome little shacks ideal for a chillaxing holiday or fishing getaway as I don't even think the federal police would find you here!! Pumped for a big day, we hit the water asap keen to find some big fish. I started the day throwing my new found favourite lure the Bassday Sugar Minnow as Tristo threw it's deeper brother, the Sugar Deep in his custom pimped colours.Starting only 100 metres from the boat ramp, I nailed our first bream of the morning with my second cast as Tristo was still tying leaders and fluffing around.Going only 28cm to the fork it was a far cry from what we had heard this bay was capable of but good to know my technique (affectionately named the 'Spiro Twitch') was in working order. Two casts later I was on again along with Tristo as we hit a good patch of ravenous bream (ranging from 25cm - 28cm) feeding up in the shallows on the early morning bite. As always, Tristo and I kept a tally of our catch with the loser buying lunch but due to the lack of shops in Ansons Bay the loser was serving the pizza!!
We then ventured to the other side of the bay which presented wide open weedy flats in about 2-3ft water and as the tide was ebbing, we were keen to check them out. On arrival, Tristo had a first cast hook up as Anson's Bay was starting to fire up. I then got smashed as I paused my lure for our second double hook up for the morning with only 35mins of game time on the clock!! Oh yeah this was awesome!! As our tally rose to 15 fish in quick time, we noticed a fast bass boat going full noise across this peaceful fishery heading in our direction. Being the only boat on the water we were keen to see who was joining us for the day to smack these Tassie horses. Well low and behold it was the master himself Spiro Spyropoulos and equally talented angler Mark Hayes joining the game, as I swear I heard Spiro's laugh before he arrived!! It was awesome to have these guys on the water with us, as laughter and fishing are the second best things you can do on the water and being a hetrosexual male, laughter and fishing was DEFINITELY the only thing on the cards today!!Haha. 
After Spiro left us, we continued smashing the bream across the weedy flats targeting our casts towards the sand patches as we were quick to work out the bream were nailing anything that crossed the broken weed. With only our biggest going 32cm so far, our hopes were still high to crack the 40cm mark. I was presently holding the big bream award as a bottle of Coke was up for grabs which would be sweet with a feed of bragging rights during the drive back to Hobart!! We left the flats and biting fish (massive sin!!) to check up the river to have a sticky beak at this awesome breaming system. After a short run and a few undersize fish, we returned to the main basin to hit the southern side which was again littered with vast weedy flats ideal for feeding bream. 
Drifting with the increasing wind was presenting a task as we moved over the sand patches at a rapid speed only allowing us to get one cast each into every spot. This didn't stop us from catching fish as our count was well over 20 by now and this day was turning into one of those epic days. To get out of the wind, we headed back to the sheltered waters of the northern side to catch up with Spiro and Hazey to see how their day was panning out. On our arrival we watched Spiro mid battle as he assured us he was onto another stonker. Sure enough he was right, as he nailed a 40cm to the fork bruiser which was added to their impressive bag of five fish they collected to see their day's tally. After seeing a mix of 38-40cm bream in Spiro's livewell, our envy was peaking as he weighed the five at a whopping 6.98kg!!! Awesome!! If only that would happen in a comp. Now Tristo and I were fired up to get some of our own horses as we traded pizza and drinks for lures from Spiro as the boys were starving and 'parched as' due to Ansons' lack of hospitality. As the boys headed home, we were amped up to get this party started and it wasn't too long until it did.
Drifting the patch the boys pulled their fish on, Tristo started our account with a cracker 38cm fork 'mini truck' bream smashing his Sugar Deep minnow in the 'Aaron Sharp' special colour. I was then soon to follow with another 38cm 'small pony' bream after it inhaled my Smith DD Panish (courtesy of the master) as Ansons reputation was showing us some love!! Finally. Then all hell broke loose, as we were nearing the end of our drift, I hooked up and this bad boy was not happy!! Running and head shaking like a bat out of hell, I knew this bream was the one we were searching for and just as I thought my day was at it's peak, Tristo was on too!! DOUBLE BIG FISH HOOKUP!!! 
As we showed more moves than a night out on the town to net both fish, we were in bream heaven. After all the hype and to see others catch them, our day had hit it's climax, double hookup on 40's!! I reckon the boat could of sunk and we would of both died smiling. Unreal.
Not to be undone, Tristo was to have the last laugh as he took out our Big Bream award as the sun began to set on our epic day. Fighting this mini 'freight train' really tested Tristo's ability but as it rose to the boat, heaven just showed another angel....41cm to the fork!!
As we headed back to the ramp, I swear we were talking at warp speed as our heads were spinning from the last hours fishing. We came to the consenus that this was the most epic day of our fishing lives as we ended up catching 37 fish with the biggest five consisting of two 38cm, two 40cm and a 41cm Tassie specials and as the pictures show...... we found our slice of heaven. Cheers Tristo for the memories!! 
