Hopeless Breamer

Great video again although the audio levels are a bit out at times. Keep it up, always worth a watch, thank you

What species apart from bream, snapper and flathead could be successfully targeted with one of these?What other species eat crabs?

And you have done it again, well done on another excellent outing. Fly fishing as well!!!!

Very nice.My favorite is the second to bottom one in the first post, absolutely love it.

I do not know a great deal, just started fishing again after giving it a large break since when I fished as a kid and teenager. From what I know though you can go for bream in areas like west lakes, port river, garden island which are not too far from you, although eating fish from west lakes is probably not a great idea. You could also get mulloway in west lakes.You could get garfish and tommies and perhaps whiting from semaphore jetty. Also crabs from semaphore jetty. Probably squid as well although they are not my thing, never fished for them.Outer Harbor breakwater is a good place to fish, recently people on here have been getting some garfish from there. There is a map in the land based fishing thread which shows where you can fish for gar off there.There is also a thread about getting yellow fin whiting from Tennyson beach which some do quite successfully but I think it is mostly a summer thing.Others will be able to expand more on this and searching the forum will as well but it gives some idea.

What fish would you be trying to target?I am guessing you will not have a boat so it will be land based, is that correct?Using the search feature on this site or using google on a topic and reading results from here is quite useful, there is a lot of good information on here, a lot of people who know what they are doing, I am not really one of them though. Also ask questions here, you will usually get someone to answer.What fish do you catch at home in the states?

I have been using small hooks, number 10 hooks below a float when going for gar/tommies. I also used number 10 last time I went to Fountain Valley after carp and seemed to have a better result than when I have used larger hooks. I have used a variety of sizes for bream but mostly number 1 hooks.I have been using number 6 hooks on the bottom off the jetties. I think these are reasonable sized hooks but I would welcome any advice.

I have been using burley, some I bought and it does seemed to have worked to a certain extent. It seemed to bring in a school of small tommies plus other fish at O'Sullivan Beach on Monday. I could see them chasing the burley when I threw some out and when I stopped they disappeared although the tide also changed as well which might have played a part as well. Last night I did get a couple of hook ups after I used burley but I was fishing around low tide so that probably did not help.So yes I will keep using burley.

Tried Brighton Jetty from 10pm to 1am and got nothing.Almost got a couple of fish but the dropped off as I wound them up to the jetty. It was too dark to tell what they were, one small, the other a bit bigger. Someone pulled in a cuttlefish, apart from that there did not seem to be much biting.

mawson lakes get yourself a feed of carp all year round!

Friday night, Brighton jetty, perhaps from about 10 pm is forming as an idea in my mind.Two rods, one for gar under a floatOne on the bottom to see if anything is there.Burley up and see what happens.

I think I would going after tommies and gar.I have no squid equipment and would not have a clue what to do with a squid of I caught one, LOL.I also only have access to a couple of light rods so shark fishing is certainly out.I have a very limited knowledge of how to fish for a few species, really need to learn a lot. Thank you again, really appreciate the advice, it all helps.

I guess that is not too far, perhaps I will have a drive down there and have a look sometime and see what it is like although I might look at closer options like O'Sullivan's beach breakwater and Brighton Jetty first. Maybe other jetties as well. Wonder what I can catch at midnight from a jetty after working afternoon shift, guess I will have to try and see.

Many recent reports have been gar from O/H breakwall. Can't imagine a fish to get a better or more consistent feed of than gar' date=' replaced with ST's in the winter.[/quote']Yes it does seem to be a good place to fish, but I think you have to go a reasonable distance out along the rocks which is not attractive to me.

Landbased is hard work. Plenty of fish from the jetties but be prepared to fish after dark. At the moment there are squid and tommies' date=' but at times I gave caught good catches of gar, snook, ST, bream, yellowfin whiting, mullet and crabs.Torrens outlet will fish well for mullet and bream in a few months once we get some late autumn rain. Mullet run starting on the beaches and jetties but fish from just before sunup till just before the high tide.Westlakes and the Onk have plenty of bream.Westbeach and OSullivans beach breakwall can produce a mixed bag of fish.Southport holds salmon in winter. Plenty more spots within an hour or two of Adelaide[/quote']Never really fished after dark but would be open to doing it. I might give Brighton a go, my closest jetty. Some very good info thank you.

If you are after a feed my advice would be to concentrate on your most local area. Learn how to fish it and reap the rewards. There are locals on every beach' date=' jetty, rock wall, marina, lake, dam ....... from the Onka to north of St Kilda that will confidently fish an area for a feed. Just a bit of time and knowledge and you'll laughing mate, plenty of metro LB fish to had. Good luck.[/quote']I might try that will the O'Sullivan beach breakwater, went there this morning and caught small stuff. Certainly considering giving it another go.

I have only been to the Onk a couple of time myself' date=' and with little luck, but from what I have seen of other peoples experience it is a great place to get a feed if you get to know the area and go off the beaten track.Have had a fair amount of luck at garden island, at the right time the salmon trout come through and the Jetty can be good for decent bream when they are on the bite, nothing huge but around the 30cm mark.Still looking for a consistently good spot myself, but have recently purchased a Kayak to get further out and onto the fish. See other people having a lot of luck landbased, but it seems to be a case of right place right time for the most part.Any of the metro Jetties are good on the right day, but the fish have a lot of choice with a fair amount of people trying to do the same thing.If you find anything consistent let me know. [/quote']I have looked at the Onk and tried it a couple of times but it has not really attracted me much. Perhaps that is because I have no real idea what I am doing and have fished the wrong spots. Perhaps some more exploring is needed.Garden Island is certainly not somewhere I would have thought about, I will certainly consider it.

Where would people say the best land based places to go to get a feed of fish? Just general areas not specific spots, not trying to steal people secret spots.

Live by the shark die by the shark.Is her name really Ocean?

the top one is a dusky morwong i reckon and the bottom one is what i call a rock cod and is a type of wrasse. both are rubbish eating.

I went past BCF and had a glance at the books in there, a couple seemed like they might okay.I am also going to get a couple of the books mentioned through through the library to have a look at to see what they are like before I decide to chase up buying one of them.

Certainly expensive but I will have a look for it.

I have been into the BCF on south road a couple of times and brought a few things. I will have a look, thank you. Need to go in there and replace something I brought from there and have already lost, perhaps I will even get there tomorrow.And I cannot swim so I would not make a good life saver.

I was more meaning details about where the fish live, what they eat etc. Kind of know your enemy kind of thing. Not really about how to catch each species, just a reference. I know there is stuff on the internet but thought I might try and find a book.I will look at the book you recommend.

Does anyone have a recommendation on the which book is the the best book on SA fish?