been inspired, but haveing trouble, any tips

[lewa]

After haveing conversation with a fellow fisherman while on a trip to bemm river about the brim fishing back home on the tambo river and the trouble with the fish not taking baits he passsed on to me a SX'40, and i have been inspired.
i had never even thought of useing lure's on brim, now iv been inspired and have probly spent 25hrs since chucking lures and sofrt plastics around snags and sand flats but have not had one hit on a lure from a brim.
has any one got any tips

[kamikazeghost]

Ok, not knowing whether you're in a boat or land-based, I'll try and cover both.

Also, I have no idea what structure you're fishing in, so I'll assume a variety in general.

The general simple foundations of bream angling to be consistent and proficient if you wish to attain a certain level and skill, is to first have a really good accurate casting technique, and second, a good foundation knowledge of the fish itself.

Honestly there's no point to think what you think will be right. More often if you think what the fish will do, then you'll start catching them.

ok, simple foundation techniques:
1. Know what structure you're fishing: sand flats, rock walls, pontoons, oyster leases
2. Cast accurately when required especially around oyster leases, and pontoons.
3. Fish light line on most occassions (unless you're fishing oyster leases)
4. Know your current, tide and therefore match the jighead weights to suit the style of fishing you're doing - ie flats, pontoons, etc. No point having too light a jighead when you have ripping current, etc.
5. When retrieve, first learn finesse techniques, not hard and fast jerking techniques. What I mean, is subtle hops and twitches interspaced with good pauses, some short, some longer. So don't fish fast, fish slower than what you think.
6. with hardbodies, Don't just roll retrieve all the time. Think of what injured baitfish do or scared baitfish do. They dart around right - have twitches, etc? So, mimic that by adding in twitches, pauses, darts, etc.

These are only simple foundation skills to start of with. There's so much more and take quite a while to even be very proficient at most times, unlike what some anglers think. You don't become a "gun angler" in a year or two.

This is a style of angling where you can just do and enjoy without caring how good you want to be, or you can learn as much as you can and continue to learn for quite sometime before you're actually very proficient at it. It is like an apprenticeship in many ways. There's many nuances and things to learn and gain.

Hope this starting block helps.

one more thing. You'll hear of this plastic, this hardbody, etc., Honestly whilst starting off, go with the simplest lures that have been working for many, many years......

eg.
Soft Plastics Start up Kit-
Squidgie Wriggler 80mm Bloodworm
Berkley 3" Bass Minnow Pearl/watermelon
Berkley 3" Gulp! Minnow Pumpkinseed
Berkley 2" Gulp! Shrimp New Penny
Atomic 2" Fat Grub Brown crawdad

Hardbody Start up kit-
Attack Minnow Orange Tiger or Charteuse Tiger
SX-40 Forster Legend
Rebel Crawdad Red/Brown or Clear Pink
Halco Scorpion 35mm or 52mm Brown Trout


Just to name some of the proven lures around. Look there are others, but these mentioned, if you just start simply, you can build up more lures after with more knowledge, experience, and skills as you go along.

Keep it simple for the meantime. and Good luck! Happy learning a new trade.

[fishy]

thats totaly right

[breambuster7]

also remeber: if you have a good session (this can sometimes mean only one bream cuaght for beginners) take a note of what the tide was, the time of day, the soft plastic or hard body used, the jig head the current flow etc. because chances are that if you have a good session then the next time you fish the same spot in the same conditions you will more than likely have another good session. thats how you gain local knowledge and after a few years you will ony fish a location when the conditions are just right as you will have learned that thats the best time to fish the place.

[BLACK SWAN]

Lewa,

Good advise from the others but if you are not using a
fluorocarbon leader you won't catch a fish.
Have a look under lines on the forum there's some good info there.

Cheers Gary.

[breambuster7]

Originally Posted by BLACK SWAN

Lewa,

Good advise from the others but if you are not using a
fluorocarbon leader you won't catch a fish.
Have a look under lines on the forum there's some good info there.

Cheers Gary.

hmmmm not sure how you got that idea coz i dont use flouyrocarbon and ive been getting plenty of bream on my 6lb tren mono but that your opinion

[splashy]

Kamikaze is spot on - and don't under estimate how finesse you can be and catch bream. Lately I have been leaving soft plastics and vibes sit on the bottom for up to 5 seconds and have the bream pick them up and swim off with them. So if the fish seem really flighty, the loooong pauses can be quite important. If you think you are leaving it there too long, then you are probably leaving it there about right.... I think it was Bushy who had an article on this in a recent fishing mag (someone may be able to fill in the details here?)

[lewa]

Hey guys,

this thread is over 12 months old.

i am fully converted from bait to plastc now and sucessfully catching all species from trout to perch on plastics and hard bodys also got meself into a HORNET,

Thanks to all the information that i have got off this website and getting out there and having a go.