Hey guys,just a quick question..i was fishing on s

[Sharkattack]

Hey guys,just a quick question..i was fishing on saturday night,so i threw my sinker n went 2 net sum mullets 4 a livie..only managed 2 net mud breams wud my torn net.lol.(very large breams)well i decide 2 slide them live in d surf,nt knowing what il catch..i have heard via da grapevine dat d mud bream fillet makes a excellant kob b8..if u tink of it,it make sense,salmon usually go up in2 d mouth 2 feed,my question is,DID ANY 1 ACTUALLY USE DS BAIT IN D SURF.,N DID YOUL HAVE SUCCESS.IM AL EARS..TANKZ

 

[Guest]

Hi Sharkattack

This is a long story.....  2005....Went castnetting in the small estuatry / river mouth at Rocky Bay on the south coast (KZN) at 5am to get some live mullet for a deep sea trip.  Got plenty mullet and a good size bream (20 to 25cm).  Launched for deep sea at about 6am but as we were tying traces and rigging up to start trolling got hit by a mother of a storm.  Soaking wet and scared sh*tless, charter turned back and we came back to land without even wetting a line.... and I came back with all my live bait, and very disappointed that we didn't get to fish. 

Nothing left to do that morning, and the sea looked good after the storm, so let most of the live bait go and kept the ones that were looking most lively for some Rock & Surf.   Amongst the ones that looked most lively....just happened to be the bream and 2 mullet.  Slided the first mullet at about 9am, no luck and after an hour or so reeled in to find the mullet I had slid was dead.  Went to change bait, but by now the other mullet in my live bait bucket was also dead (no pump), but the bream was still very alive.  So I slid him.....no bite, but still fishing.  At about 11am my friend runs down the beach and says he's found another charter that agreed to take us out for the afternoon bottom fishing.  We were hyped for some deep sea fishing, so didn't really want to take "No" for an answer. 

Anyway, packed up rock & surf tackle, and reeled in my slide bait bream to find he was still very much alive (!!!), so threw him back into the live bait bucket and headed for deep sea.  Went out that afternoon on Wotalotigot skippered by Vickus off Rocky Bay...... While fishing bottom, I remembered my live bream in my bucket, so pinned him and threw him as a drift bait and carried on bottom fishing...bream still alive!  At around 2pm I went on with a nice Dorado of about 9Kg on my drift live bait bream.  Moral of the story..... bream make excellent live bait for the sea...I thought it would have died immediately once in saltwater ('cos it came from the river), but it outlasted the mullet by far.  This particular brean was caught at 5am, put into a bucket full of mullet without a pump, went to sea, came back to land, was slid as a live bait from the side and then reeled back in...still alive... went back out to sea and drifted as a live bait and eventually ended up catching a dorado at 2pm!  Very very hardy live bait!  Give it a try and let me know. 

Have never tried another live bream in the surf or sea since then, but certainly will do if I get another chance.  Give it a try and let me know.

Cheers

Gilly 

 

 

 

 

[Sharkattack]

Hey gilly,excellant stuff..i must agree wud u,guys if there is one fish that can survive in minimum of water is d mud bream..i had 8 mud bream in my cooler box wud sum water(had 4got my live b8 bucket)and dy stayd alive d entire nyt,n nt jus alive bt they were energetic 2..i tuk d remainder bak 2 d mouth n returnd dm alive..n they dashed of wud speed..im nt sure if dy stay in salt water bt gilly u confirmd dat.thankz mate..SO GUYS IF U TINK MULLET IS A SURVIVOR TRY A MUD BREAM.(not so gud on d hands bt lol)congrats on yr dorado..neva thought i wud hear a dorado cawt on a mud bream..it jus go 2 show there are no rules that is cut in stone wn it cum 2 angling..i wud love 2 hear if any1 else has tried this b8 in d surf..thankz 4yr input gilly.much appreciated

 

[Guest]

Sharkattack

Yep, they certainly do stay "alive and kicking" in salt water.  I couldn't believe it myself!  Probably because that one was caught in a tidal river mouth / small estuary that occassionally gets saltwater washed into it over spring highs, so the bream was accustomed to a saline environment. 

Forgot to mention in my story that after netting my live bait I replaced the dirty muddy river water in my bucket with fresh sea water - did it a couple times that day, so that bream actually stayed alive the whole day in sea water!

Not sure many guys would believe I caught that Dorado on a bream (wouldn't believe it myself), thats why I quoted the skipper's name and the boat - If ever in Rocky Bay, speak to him, I'm sure he'll remember the story as he was just as surprised as we were.

Gilly

 

[On_Dad]

Sharkie,

i'm previously from Isipingo. Used to net the buggers (muddies) in the lagoon there. We used to fish afternoons/evenings with just a treble into the back of these critters (5-10 cm) and a glow-in-the-dark bead on the hook snood. Predominently springer and kob, especially if you there for the rising or falling tide.

Hope you get some....post pics