Fishing For Melbourne Bream

FISHING FOR BREAM IN MELBOURNE

When you think bream fishing the first few things that come to mind are long drives and large estuary systems far away from Melbourne. ​However, there's many top quality estuary system's around Melbourne's suburbia, including Patterson lake's also known as "Patto", the Yarra River and Docklands right in the heart of the CBD, the Maribyrnong River also known as "The Nong", and down the Peninsula at Mt Martha theres a small inlet called Balcombe creek which holds a heap of good sized bream. So the truth is you dont have to travel far from your door to find some fantastic bream fishing.

Most of these systems have an abundance of boat mooring's, pontoon's, rock walls, sand flats and many other different sort's of vertical structure. When i started i found the hard part was wondering where to start and which lures to use but after a lot of trial and error i've become quite confident in many of these systems and have developed techniques to fishing the different types of structure they offer using an array of various lures. So, i thought i'd go through some of the basic techniques that i've found successful when fishing for bream in Melbourne.

Fishing Boat Mooring's & Pontoon's For Bream

Firstly, I look for pontoon's with a good bit of shade on one side of the pontoon. I set myself a good distance back to prevent spooking the fish and then I cast my lure into the shaded side. Important to note that i also try use the wind and tide to my advantage by letting it push my lure against and/or under the pontoon before i start retrieving the lure. Once the lures in position i start my retrieve which varies depending on the type of lure i'm using at the time. For boat mooring's and pontoon's i have a few types of 'go to' bream lures that I use which are as follows

#1 is the Cranka Crab.

Cast tight in to structure and let it sink to the bottom keeping an eye on the line for any twitches, if the lure makes it to the bottom ill wait roughly 10 seconds before giving the rod tip a subtle shake and a really slow roll before stopping it for another few seconds before retrieving the lure and repeating the process.

#2 Bream Soft Plastics

Also casting tight into structure and giving the lure a couple of subtle twitchs followed by letting the lure sink to the bottom before giving it a few more short hops trying to keep the lure parallel to the pontoon or boat hull, then letting the lure hit the bottom again, and once again repeating the process.

#3 Bream Crank Baits

I start by positioning myself in line with the pontoon/boat hull to allow the crankbait to track along side the structure. I then place a cast as far back or even a few meters past the structure, give the lure a few cranks to get the lure down to its diving depth before reaching the structure, and from there i apply a simple slow roll technique which i have found very effective when fishing for bream.

Fishing Rock Walls And Sand Flats For Bream

After spending a lot of time fishing for bream along the rock walls and sand flats I've found that the fish noticeably better on a high tide compared to a low tide. And thats not to say you cant catch bream on a low tide, i've just found its a lot more productive around the high.

There's many ways you can fish rock walls & sand flats so i thought i'd narrow it down to my favoured methods of catching bream from this form of ground.

#1 Fishing Shallow Diving Jerk Baits For Bream

My number 1 favoured method for catching bream on the rock walls and sand flats is flicking shallow diving jerk baits. I simply cast as close to the waters edge as possible and start a twitch and pause retrieve, always keeping a close eye on your line on the pause as quite often the bream will hit the lure on the pause which can sometimes be detected by noticing the twitch in the line. But sometimes the bream are a little timid and when that's the case i wont notice them mouth the lure and when i go to twitch after a pause there will be a bream holding on to your lure.

#2 Fishing Small Crank Baits For Bream

Fishing crank baits for bream is very similar to fishing the jerk baits instead i tend to apply less pauses and mainly stick with a constant slow roll, trying to reel as slow as i can, just enough to get the lure working. When fishing small crank baits i like to use a medium action rod with 3-4lb straight trough fluorocarbon

#3 Fishing Cranka Crabs For Bream

Fishing rock walls and sand flats with cranka crabs is super effective and the retrieve i use is very similar to the one used on the boat mooring's & pontoon's with one slight change, and that is i incorporate more hops into my retrieve to get the crab up and over the rock's or along the sand flats

Fishing Vertical Structure For Bream

When fishing vertical structure for bream i tend to favour sinking style fishing lures so, as im sure you can imagine, I use the cranka crabs a lot of the time, casting them in tight to the structure and anxiously awaiting for that bream crunch as the lure is sinking.

Here is another opportunity to use soft plastics as well as vibe lures to which I use a basic 'lift and fall' technique, generally giving the vibe lure a longer lift to really get the vibration out of the vibe. soft plastic just with longer lift's of the rod to really get that lure setting of that vibe.

Fishing For Bream In Patterson River

Bream Fishing In Patterson River

Well thats about it from me today. I hope this basic guide on fishing for bream in Melbourne has helped some of you :)

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Tight Lines

Daniel Griffin

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