Tournaments

We have now completed the first round of our series this year held at the beautiful St Georges Basin. Unfortunately, we had to move this round due to clashes with other bream events. We thank all teams for their understanding and continued support of the East Coast Bream Series.

There were a total of 30 teams contesting this event and overall it was a very tough day on the water. Plenty of wind made the pre-fish difficult but fortunately it was much lighter on the day.

FIRST PLACE

First place position went to the McBarron Construction team, consisting of Jarryd McBarron and Brenton Spinks. They won $1800 for their bag of 5 fish that weighed 3.49kg.

McBarron Construction recounts their day:

After the pre-fish outlined that the bite was going to be extremely tough in 12ºC water, we only found active fish in the one area. However, after a lot of sounding and thoroughly fishing the area, we had Jarryd McBarron and Brenton Spinks holding up part of their winning catch, including the 1.06kg Big Bream.

half a plan.

Starting fourth, we headed off. We pulled up at our first spot of the day on the eastern side of the basin in 15-20ft of water.

Opting for a plastic and a blade, we got to work. After about half a dozen casts, the first fish was hooked on a plastic on a 1/8oz jighead. After a nervous few moments the first fish was in the net – a nice one going 36cm to the fork. The relief of being able to head to weigh-in had us feeling happy with the bag that we had, but thought we needed more.

After that first drift it First Place Jarryd McBarron and Brenton Spinks took home $1,800 for the win.

Third place team, Flickn4five, Mark Thompson and Zac Stojanovski at the weigh in tent.

McBarron Construction Stealth’n’Sherman Flickin4Five Liam Carruthers and Arthur Aimes with part of their catch.

pretty happy so early on.

Another three hours passed with only small flathead, tarwhine, snapper and whiting all coming over the side. Despite all the bait on the sounder, we made the call to move to a few of our favourite spots to see what we could find.

Pulling up on the first choice in 15-20ft, we marked fish that looked active. We deployed the drift chute and got stuck in, both throwing blades. In the space of 20 minutes, we had a flurry of five bream hit the net, what a relief.

We were incredibly went quiet, moving again this time a bit deeper in around 25ft. After two exceptionally large trevally were hooked and landed, and a very nice fish was lost, we got a decent 32cm fork upgrade.

With an hour to go we headed back to our first spot to try for another bigger fish, but it did not come.

Arriving back at the beach, happy with our bag, we did not think we had enough to win. However, it hit the scales at 3.49kg, that took the win by a mere 10g!

Our first bream of the day weighed 1.05kg, which

Jarryd McBarron, Brendon Spinks, 5 3.49

Craig Snudden, Mick Snell

5 3.48 Mark Thompson, Zac Stojanovski, Dane Thompson 5 3.30 Breamski Steve Nedeski, Jarrod Lye, Jason Harlock 5 3.20 Millerods/Cranka/Makoeyewear/Lowrance Liam Carruthers, Artiur Amies, Leah Reel 5 2.94 Compleat Angler Batemans Bay/Shimano Jason Mayberry, Terry Permenter 5 2.93 Snagged Grant Oliver, Luke Hodger, Mitch Maddison 5 2.89 Compleat Angler Gregory Hills/Garmin Dane Tomaszewski, Dane Tribbia 5 2.85 Nulook Floors Zac O’Sullivan, Nathan Medland, Rodney O’Sullivan 5 2.81 Savage Gear Adam Hughes, Matt Green 5 2.69 Full results go to www.wsbb.com.au was also enough to claim the Big Bream .

SECOND PLACE

Second place position went to the Stealth’n’Sherman team, consisting of Craig Snudden and Mick Snell. They won $800 for their bag of 5 fish that weighed 3.48kg.

Stealth’n’Sherman recounts their day:

We do not have the high-tech sounders to find fish in the deep, so we caught all our fish in less than 2m of water. If the water was clear, we moved on until we found some dirtier water.

We fished with Pro Lure S36 cranks over weed beds and found the edge of cockle beds the most productive.

The weed beds not far from the start fished well, and our first fish came on board at 7.16am. A slow roll seemed to be the best technique with the darker colours - brown and black catching all the fish. – ECBS