AFTER writing as many fishing articles as I have over the years it could be expected that nothing much would surprise me. Well, I must say I was surprised this week when Karuah champion George Trinkler told me about the efforts of two sisters fishing off Hawks Nest Beach.
The girls were fishing for bream off the beach using a method that was new to me.
The tried-and-true method for catching bream off the beach is to toss out a bait of pipis, worms, strip of mullet or live yabbies.
I was amazed to learn that the sisters were tossing hard bodied lures into the surf and catching monster bream one after the other.
Never had I heard of tossing hard bodied lures off the beach for bream.
Lure fishing for bream is not new, it has been going on for a long time, particularly hard bodied lures and plastics around the oyster racks or any structures inside the harbour including rock walls, bridges and jetties.
Tossing hard bodies off the beach however was a whole new concept for me.
“Easy” reckons George – just drive along the beach until you spot a school of bream in the shallows then jump out and toss the lure into the school of fish, a couple of winds of the reel and whacko!
By John ‘Stinker’ CLARKE
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