I changed a couple of things and bang! Fish on. I was keeping an eagle eye on him, trying to replicate his technique.
He followed that up with another three in about as many casts. It didn’t take Ashley long to get his first bream, a nice 30cm fish. Craig was focused on getting one on fly and he was using an intermediate flyline and a size 6 gold bomber fly. We got to one long, deep hole and immediately we noticed bream darting off in every direction.Īshley passed a spin rod to me with a small red vibe lure, explaining that the best technique was to let it sink close to the bottom and then twitch it back with the odd decent pause. He continued to motor up hoping to flush out a large school as the boat passed above. They need brackish water to spawn successfully so they become very concentrated in the part of the river with the optimum conditions. Ashley explained that during winter, bream would congregate in these deep holes to breed. I was surprised at the clarity of the water, the bottom was clearly visible even in the deeper sections. I was very keen to try to get one on a lure and, if the opportunity presented itself, on fly as well.Īs we motored upstream the river became narrower, there were shallow sections interspersed with the odd deep hole. Back then the technique of catching bream on lures was very much in its infancy I had only ever targeted them with bait. I live in New Zealand these days so it had been many years since I'd caught a bream, in fact the last one I remember catching was in my early twenties in the 90s when I lived in W.A. Tasmania is more than a trout fishery! Keen fly and lure anglers can have a ball targeting bream in the shallows. While we waited for the tide to come right he suggested we go up river and target schools of fish that would be holed up in spawning aggregations in brackish water higher up the system. The focus of the day was to target bream on the estuary sand flats but, according to Ashley, the bream need a specific tide to feed on the flats. Upon meeting up with Ashley at the boat ramp we launched and began motoring upstream. The morning dawned bright and calm, an unusual event on the Apple Isle! As we drove down to Swansea, Craig felt like we had perfect conditions. His offer to show us some of his treasured bream flats fishing was too good to turn down. Between his job and his recreation he is literally on the water everyday, it's no surprise then that he has Tasmanian fishing totally wired. I'm a great believer that there is no substitute for time on the water and Ashley is the walking embodiment of that mantra. Ashley is a full-blown “fishaholic” I’m talking a chronic case – one for the textbooks! I fish a lot but looking at Ashley’s Facebook feed leaves me with serious fish envy.
#TECH DECK CHEESE AND CRACKERS MINI RAMP PROFESSIONAL#
He makes his living as a professional fisherman, harvesting calamari and garfish amongst other species. Ashley lives in Swansea, a small coastal community about halfway down Tasmania’s East Coast.
The unique landscape and big fish make Tasmania memorable experience.Īshley Hallem had invited Craig Rist and I down to his local stomping ground after he heard we were having a tough few days on the Tassie trout. The scene was reminiscent of fishing for big predators on a tropical flat in Australia’s North, but here, we were drifting down a sleepy estuary on Tasmania’s East Coast. The bream hit his fly the moment it touched the water and the instinctive, forceful hook set that followed had the bream tail-walking across the surface in a shower of spray. He fired a long cast and it laid out in a perfectly straight line down the sand flat. But Craig is one of those rare anglers that can channel frustration into positive energy – the harder it gets, the harder he tries! Ashley and myself had been smashing them all day long on hard bodies. I could tell Craig was a little pissed at not catching one on the fly. A trip to Tasmania saw NICK REYGAERT experience some world-class flats and estuary action on the local bream.ĬRAIG was on the bow, double hauling like a man possessed! A few casts earlier, Ashley had told him he was fishing “angry”, a cheeky stir, but there was some truth in it. An average black takes a vibe in shallow water.
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