Brighton Pier mega land based fishing thread

Donuts Macgee · Post by **Donuts Macgee** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:50 am

I got my weirdest catch on the Brighton breakwall last night.

I was fishing back towards the boats, and my bomb sinker got snagged on something. Kinda felt like it was jerking around, like a fish, but it also kinda felt like it was just dragging weed. I reeled it in and my sinker had gotten tangled in braid. I pulled in about 20 metres of this braid to discover two hooks...

One with a 28cm bream flapping around on the end of it!

I probably don't have the experience, technique or gear to catch a cunning fish like a bream at this point, so I'm stoked!

kabo · Post by **kabo** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:14 pm

Brilliant! I've caught lots of line with hooks, but never with a fish attached

Post by **Basti** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 4:57 pm

That beam was lucky you snagged the line. Whether you c&r or kept it, is better than eating away on a hook. Well done

Donuts Macgee · Post by **Donuts Macgee** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 7:56 am

Hah, yeah, I don't know how lucky that bream felt while I was eating it, but I guess the quick end of a knife through the gills is better than slowly starving. the trick now is to catch another one the same way :crazy:

Freakazoid · Post by **Freakazoid** » Thu May 01, 2014 3:31 pm

Live from Brighton... It's dead.
Quite a few people taking advantage of the nice weather, but have only seen one fish caught in 3 hours:( fingers crossed the sunset pinkies pay me a visit soon.
Did have something earlier bite my soft plastic clean in half lol snapper...Couta..who knows

Rogue_Hunter · Post by **Rogue_Hunter** » Thu May 01, 2014 4:44 pm

Good Luck! Hopfully the dusk will fire things up!

No squid around?

Freakazoid · Post by **Freakazoid** » Thu May 01, 2014 5:16 pm

Haven't tried yet myself.. But the wind just whipped up the chop a bit so not ideal (for squid anyway)

buzztek · Post by **buzztek** » Thu May 01, 2014 5:19 pm

Freakazoid wrote:Live from Brighton... It's dead.
Quite a few people taking advantage of the nice weather, but have only seen one fish caught in 3 hours:( fingers crossed the sunset pinkies pay me a visit soon.
Did have something earlier bite my soft plastic clean in half lol snapper...Couta..who knows

Thats when they started to bite last night..about half an hour after the sun went down.
Good luck mate.

Post by **Fish-cador** » Sat May 03, 2014 5:29 pm

anyone having a ball in Brighton or St Kilda area at the moment?

Post by **Raulfc7** » Sat May 03, 2014 5:38 pm

Beautiful conditions FC no doubt one or two juicy reds will be caught with those conditions

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