Breamin' the Classics

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Hi all....

Just wanted share a few words and pics about the Tas Bream Classics.

Round 1 was on the infamous Derwent River in early Jan, and the Bream were very cooperative! With the average Bream weighing a little over 1kg, it's no wonder the system has such a reputation.

Benny and I were stoked to place where we did (6th) and more than happy to double-bag on the Derwent. Day 2 started off pretty tough for us, but Ben started smashing them on the Atomic Hardz and we were away I stuck with the Daiwa Presso and Zipbaits. Benny actually pulled a 43cm PB Bream on pre-fish that weighed close to 2kg Absolute pig of a fish and would have been very handy during the comp! Good work son!

Tassie guru's Leigh McKenzie (angling addict on here) and Pat Sullivan took out the event, which was pretty close by Derwent standards.

1 Sportsfishtasmania.com Leigh McKenzie Patrick Sullivan 5 6.110 5 5.450 10 11.560
2 Strikepro Greg Woods Jason Robbins 5 5.780 5 5.580 10 11.360
3 Tight Lines Andrew Kruska Jason French 5 5.005 5 5.780 10 10.785
4 Riverside Quality Meats Andrew Cox Steve Steer 5 4.865 5 5.490 10 10.355
5 Gas Strut Recharge Travis Bryan Mathew Shea 5 5.490 5 4.790 10 10.280
6 Daiwa Brendan Turriff Benny Hill 5 4.765 5 5.090 10 9.855
7 Bream Brothers Andrew Dyson Dave Appleyard Tim Farrell 3 3.205 5 5.800 8 9.005
8 Tackle Us Andrew Wells Jon Lister John Huskin 5 5.080 3 3.300 8 8.380
9 Catchtas.com/Damiki Craft Lures Dan Walter James Mackay 5 4.960 3 2.120 8 7.080
10 Unique Breaming Simon Thompson Mark Rumbold 5 5.045 2 1.925 7 6.970
11 Howler Custom Rods / Jax QuickFix Tyres Warwick Medwin Craig Templar Chris Kilby 5 4.380 3 2.480 8 6.860
12 Launceston Powdercoating Shane Ling Tim Colgrave Dean Blair 5 5.275 1 1.000 6 6.275
13 Zipbait Steve Smith Tim Hodge 2 1.530 5 4.290 7 5.820
14 Viper Alistair Creed Bernard Creed 4 3.920 1 1.080 5 5.000
15 Richardson Devine Marine Matt Dyson Kenny Beatson 4 4.780 0 0.000 4 4.780
16 Catch Toy & Leisure Marcus Hardwicke Anthony Mayne 3 3.395 0 0.000 3 3.395
17 Tasfish.com Jason Nicholls Nigel Stingle 2 1.995 1 1.325 3 3.320
18 M & M Peter Mazey Tim Mazey 0 0.000 2 1.880 2 1.880
19 Rod and Range Sports Dave Howard Noel Howard 1 0.900 0 0.000 1 0.900
20 Sitting Ducks Jason Harris Bob Ling 0 0.000 0 0.000 0 0.000

Benny with a 2kg HORSE....

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Check out the girth on this thing....

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Just to give you an idea on comparison, so Bream on the right was 37cm to the fork, which is generally fairly acceptable anyway!! Certainly would have been Big Bream during the comp.

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Collecting our tag early on Day2.....

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A couple of smaller Derwent specimens....

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Biggest Bream weighed during the event, coming in at 1.62kg....

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Round 2 was held on the Swan River, during a heat wave! We awoke on pre-fish and were sweating at 4:30am! Temperature got to around 41deg whilst we were on the water, it was like someone had a blow dryer on your face!

Benny and I hit the water early on pre-fish...... too early in fact, it was too dark to see where we were going, so we opted to have a flick up river while waiting for the light. Benny was flicking around a surface lure and it got smashed..... Zzzzzz.... Bream?? Nope, just a Trevor!!

Ticked over to 5am and I reckon the temperature was flirting around the mid 20's already We manily focused on polarioding likely flats and throwing a few different lures. Benny drew some interest on surface, so we kept that in mind. We landed 2 Bream on pre-fish and that was enough, it was too flippin' hot! We anchored up toward the mouth and quickly turned the Skeeter into a dive board. Our attractive bodies drew tournament anglers from miles away, just to catch a glimpse

Day1 - We headed to our go-to spot where we had landed a fish and 'roided many more. A dozen or so casts into the day and Benny gets some interest on surface..... "There's a boil..... ooh, there he goes..... BOOF!! Got him!! Yeeeooow. Soon after and I'm on aswell. Had a lot of fun on surface throughout the day, and got our bag plus several upgrades but only by small amounts. We headed to a couple of back up spots to upgrade but failed.

BBQ - Saturday night was fun. Thanks to the boys for rigging it up, it was great to yarn about all things fishy (and other topics ) with like-minded peoples. Oh yes, and we got pi$$ed.

Day2 - We dragged our rusty heads out and tried to deciper the last few memories, and where the heck Byrneout got that chair from Similar plan as day1. Go-to spot produced the goods again - all on surface, including some larger specimens of 37cm and 38cm respectively. Upgraded a few times but still had 2 x 32cm fish in the well that we couldn't upgrade. Our bite tapered off at around lunchtime too, and found it hard after then. Luckily enough, it was enough to see us at 5th, so we were very chuffed. Oh I caught a flounder on HB too!

Leigh and Pat took out this event also, the boys are guns! That's 3 Tas Bream classics on the trot!

1 Sportsfishtasmania.com Leigh McKenzie Patrick Sullivan 10 10.405
2 Bream Brothers Andrew Dyson Dave Appleyard 10 9.865
3 Zipbait Steve Smith Tim Hodge 9 9.352
4 Riverside Quality Meats Andrew Cox Steve Steer 10 8.555
5 Daiwa Brendan Turriff Benny Hill 10 7.575
6 Gas Strut Recharge Travis Bryan Mathew Shea 10 6.965
7 Tasfish.com Jason Nicholls Nigel Stingle 10 6.800
8 Sitting Ducks - SP Jason Harris Bob Ling 10 6.010
9 Tight Lines Andrew Kruska Jason French 10 5.930
10 Catchtas.com/Damiki Craft Lures Dan Walter James Mackay 6 5.655
11 Strikepro Greg Woods Jason Robins 9 5.445
12 Tackle Us Andrew Wells Jon Lister John Huskin 5 4.650
13 Richardson Devine Marine Matt Dyson Kenny Beatson 5 4.445
14 Launceston Powdercoating - SP Shane Ling Tim Colgrave Dean Blair6 3.875
15 Viper Alistair Creed Bernard Creed 5 3.150
16 Unique Breaming Simon Thompson Mark Rumbold 5 2.650
17 Breamers are Grinners Tim Farrell Michael Preddy 4 2.515
18 20 Foot Rooster Tails Nik Byrne Andy Howell 0 0.000
19 Howler Custom Rods / Jax QuickFix Tyres Warwick Medwin Craig Templar Chris Kilby 0 0.000
20 Rod and Range Sports Dave Howard Noel Howard 0 0.000

Early morning flicking.... and playing with the camera...

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Sunrise over Swan....

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Black and White vs Colour.......??!!

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The last round is held on the Scamander River on Tassie's East Coast in late March. It's shaping up to be an aewsome event, and I'm struggling to contain myself. I wonder if Leigh and Pat can continue their trend? Will someone pip them at the post? Will Benny and Beevor get up..... Na, big call Very much looking forward to it though. Stay tuned.

Last pic... Early morning surface fishin w slow shutter