WA report #3 - 19th February 2007

Black bream have been widespread throughout Perth waters. If you are land based, using lures has been hard yakka while bait has brought on more and bigger specimens. For the XL blackies go back to the old school and pin a small chemically sharpened hook through the smaller mussel gathered off the pylons underneath you. If you have a tinny at your disposal a little changing between spots should be enough to locate a school or two. If it has just sprinkled with a bit of summer drizzle, fish the deeper water near structure rather then the flats.

With permission from my better half (otherwise known as THE BOSS :wink: ) I might give my bream stick a workout at a comp. It has come to that time of the year where the Melville Amateur Angling Club runs Swanfish form 9.30am Saturday the 24th to 9.30am Sunday 25th. This is a family friendly event with both prizes for catching a tagged fish and for just participating. The Swan and Canning will be alive throughout with fishers chasing species such as whiting, herring, tailor, black bream, tarwhine, flounder, flathead and mulloway.

If boating in the blue is more your thing, try the 5-Fathom Bank. Anglers have trolled small pushers at 6 knots to get into the big schools of 3 – 4 kg blue fin tuna that have been given away by diving birds. Cutting off the engine and drifting quietly past the working birds can get you within casting distance of metals and softplastics. There are also a few Mackerel amongst the tuna.

catch yah
Pete