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M9085 wrote:

smile0784 wrote:Shimano Cranx rods on special for bcf club members for $99

Im planning to visit Armadale tomorrow to have a look at Gen Blacks and Saltiga c71mls.might come home with one or the other.

Went to Maribyrnong River at Ascot Vale for another doughnut. It is becoming embarrassing. Couple of bait fishos were pulling pretty small Bream

I have had a couple of gen blacks for awhile now. Love them. Highly recommend them mate :thumbsup:

Lightningx wrote:

M9085 wrote:

smile0784 wrote:Shimano Cranx rods on special for bcf club members for $99

Im planning to visit Armadale tomorrow to have a look at Gen Blacks and Saltiga c71mls.might come home with one or the other.

Went to Maribyrnong River at Ascot Vale for another doughnut. It is becoming embarrassing. Couple of bait fishos were pulling pretty small Bream

I have had a couple of gen blacks for awhile now. Love them. Highly recommend them mate :thumbsup:

thanks Lightningx AND others your input is very much appreciated

M9085 wrote:

smile0784 wrote:Shimano Cranx rods on special for bcf club members for $99

Im planning to visit Armadale tomorrow to have a look at Gen Blacks and Saltiga c71mls.might come home with one or the other.

Went to Maribyrnong River at Ascot Vale for another doughnut. It is becoming embarrassing. Couple of bait fishos were pulling pretty small Bream

Good luck mate hope you find what you looking for

M9085 wrote:

Lightningx wrote:

M9085 wrote:

smile0784 wrote:Shimano Cranx rods on special for bcf club members for $99

Im planning to visit Armadale tomorrow to have a look at Gen Blacks and Saltiga c71mls.might come home with one or the other.

Went to Maribyrnong River at Ascot Vale for another doughnut. It is becoming embarrassing. Couple of bait fishos were pulling pretty small Bream

I have had a couple of gen blacks for awhile now. Love them. Highly recommend them mate :thumbsup:

thanks Lightningx AND others your input is very much appreciated

No worries mate

I am no expert in bream fishing and even further from adequate in bream comp fishing. I do however totally understand your mid-life crisis, choosing something that’s challenging and not achievable easily is a great journey to play out. It is a decent mountain to climb so enjoy every step.
Bream fishing during comp situations isn't as easy as most "experts" make it out to be. You see plenty of donuts from anglers who thought they were good enough to compete, even the season pros will occasionally donut. There's a reason why it’s always the usual suspects at the pointy end of these comps. You don't get there by luck.
As an entry point I would try the ABT tournaments as a non boater. If you’re lucky enough to be paired with a good fisho you'll see what is required to be competitive. You will notice the really good guys have pinpoint accuracy and generally know what to throw. Accuracy in certain situations is paramount as it would mean getting a take or spooking the quarry. There are no wasted cast in the way they go about business.
As for rod choice it’s hard to have a wiggle at the shop and determine whether it’s good or not. Some will feel awesome in hand but translate to poo in use. The rods I use are slow to med at best but are super responsive and I feel everything. I have had a superfast megabass kirasame rod that I couldn't feel the lure vibrating like I do with my slow rods. The kirasame was like a quivertip where the flexi tip was more like a quiver tip rod and absorbed all the lure’s action.
Note fast action does not equal stiffer or more sensitive, it’s just the way the rod bends. As for recommendations I don’t really have any as I haven’t shopped for a bream rod in years, most of my quiver (Loomis GLX) are 30 year old designs and to me they still hold their own to today’s offerings.
You will spend a shizen load on tackle, not counting the rods you will buy, lures cost a bomb as well.
As a minimum:- Standard Minnows, Slender Minnows, Chubby style cranks, deep diving crank/minnows, blades, LCB, Cranka crabs, and soft plastics.
I wish you luck on your new adventure, ignore the naysayers that will put down bream fishing, there will always be peeps that will say any sort of fishing is below them (just human nature I guess). There will be big game fisho that say chasing mulloway is entry level ****, and fly fishos that will turn their nose up and other fly fishos that use artificial material in their flies etc etc. Every form of fishing has its challenges, I love fishing in all its forms whether it be soaking bread for bream, fly fishing to wary enzed trout, or popping for GTs and every other form of fishing I’ve been lucky enough to try.

Hey johny.
What did you end up buying

Spent most of the day under the house attending emergency yesterday. No wheels today. Tomorrow is the day.

Lol. Ok

smile0784 wrote:Do you have a name of the book

yes but its a secret nah read between the brackets some nice tips in it i brought the book about 20 years ago when i first started using soft plastics

Hey mate these are my top picks for giving a decent foundation to work off theory wise. You would get away with just fishing soft plastics and finesse lure fishjng tho to give a broad foundation on lure and soft plastic fishing.
Then it's just a case of hitting the nong around a high tide and casting your 2.5" motor oil zman grub on a 1 /16 jighead along the bank so it lands about a metre or so out from the bank and *slowly* hopping it back to you before moving up 5m and casting again to fresh ground *cough*