2013 Daiwa-Hobie Kayak Bream Series Flash Mobbs takes First win W a d e Mobbs, a 16-year-old student at St Paul’s Port Macquarie, has had a dream debut to his kayak BREAM career with victory at the Daiwa-Hobie Gold Coast Canals qualifier. Mobbs (3/4, 2.03kg) targeted bream in Lake Intrepid using surface and subsurface presentations before reverting to plastics to find his third and final legal fish. “I started in Lake Intrepid casting an Atomic Shad 38 Deep parallel to pontoons,”
Mobbs said. “I kept the rod tip relatively high as I only wanted the lure swimming just beneath the surface. This technique accounted for my first fish which came around 8am. I then switched to a surface presentation using an Ecogear PX45, and half an hour later had my second fish.” Mobbs then struggled for the next three hours, finding only undersize fish in the clear sunny conditions. Moving out into the main channel area of Mermaid Water canals, he switched up his technique to
try to elicit further bites. “I switched to a cut-down Gulp Craw rigged on a 1/28oz TT HWS size 1 jighead,” he said. “I cast to likely looking edges, rocky points and the bottom of submerged boat ramps. I continued to catch undersize fish, but off a rocky point I hooked and landed my third legal fish. A few more undersize fish came and went and I lost a possible fourth fish – but that’s fishing.” “The action with the plastic was just to deadstick the lure and wait for a fish to pick it up and swim off with
Maas crabs his way to second Stephen Maas (4/4, 1.95kg) used his experience and a new lure to secure second place. Maas also targeted fish in Lake Intrepid to fill his tournament limit. “I went to the back of Lake Intrepid in order to find my fish,” he said. “I initially went with a confidence plastic, the 100mm Squidgy wriggler in bloodworm colour, and had a fish early off a pontoon.” Maas then made a switch which ultimately had him challenging for the victory. Maas tied on a Cranka Crab and targeted the back posts of jetties in shallow water [1ft deep]. The bream quickly responded with three small fish falling to the lure straight away. “Most of the bites came on the drop,” he said. “If no bites came, a slow winding retrieve put the lure into action and prompted any fish
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Maas claimed another BASS Stephen ELECTRIC SERIES podium finish, finishing second. to come and investigate. “This was the first time I have used the Cranka Crab, and my confidence just grew and grew as the session went on.” Maas made a move back to the main channel area where the upgrades continued to follow. “I caught an upgrade
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which was then followed by two more in succession,” he said. “I was using the Cranka Crab in tough country, skipping it into dark holes and managing to retrieve it with no issues. The snag resistance was amazing and allowed me to fish without altering my aggressive approach.” – ABT
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Fish Weight(kg) Payout SERIES BASS ELECTRIC
1 Wade MOBBS ........................ 3/4 ...........2.03 ............$400 + Prize Pack 2 Stephen MAAS ...................... 4/4 ...........1.95 ............$225 + Prize Pack 3 Kendall SOO .......................... 3/4 ...........1.81 ............$150 + Prize Pack, Boss Hog $100 (1.08kg) 4 Steve CRAWLEY ................... 4/4 ...........1.72 ............$100 + Prize Pack 5 Mathew CAMERON ............... 4/4 ............1.7 .............$100 + Prize Pack 6 Guy STRUTHERS.................. 4/4 ...........1.66 ............$90 7 Justin DESMARCHELIER...... 4/4 ...........1.54 ............$80 8 Michael MAAS ....................... 4/4 ...........1.44 ............$70 9 Daniel KOPACZ ...................... 4/4 ...........1.38 10 Tarrant Trent DROLLET.......... 4/4 ...........1.36 For full result listings, see www.bream.com.au
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Wade Mobbs with a brace of Gold Coast winning bream.
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it. I concentrated on the line to see the tell-tale little tick that indicated a bite.” At the weigh-in, Mobbs’ quality 3-fish bag always had him in contention, and ultimately he was able to seal the deal against a number of seasoned kayak anglers. “It was great to fish well at this event,” he said. “My first bream kayak event has gone as well as possible and now I can look forward to the Grand Final later in the year. It is going to be an amazing challenge, but one I very much look forward to.”
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Winner’s Tackle Rod: 7’0” 1-4kg Howler custom Reel: Daiwa 2000 Freams Line: 8lb SAS braid Leader: 3lb Sunline FC Rock Winning Edge Adapting to the clear conditions, rotating through different lure presentations and persisting when the bites were hard to come by. TERS TOP 10 NON-BOA
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Kendall Soo took out theHogs Breath Boss Hog prize with a cracking specimen of 1.08kg. The bream fell to a Berkley 3” Craw in camo colour rigged on a 1/28oz jighead. “The bream ate the lure on the drop in 2m of water, it presented as dead weight with sporadic headshakes, so I initially called it for a flathead. Fortunately luck was on my side and I landed the kicker fish.” he said.
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BOSS HOG HOGS BREATH PAY TO:
Hogs Breath Boss Hog
FOR THE SUM OF:
One Hundred Dollars
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ents Fishing Tournam bass • bream • barra
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For more information visit www.bream.com.au or phone ABT on ( 07 ) 3387 0888 QFM
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