Small Bream with Bombette 2008-01-02

January 2nd, 2008 | Saltwater lure fishing

The marine predators didn’t show themselves this morning around the jetty so all the ‘easy catch’ lurkers went away relatively early.

Nice jetty tiger :

jetty tiger

I decided to move on to the beach and check a small golden strike pro lure by targeting Bream. I saw only few of them on shallow rocks 10 ft in front of me, but because of the strong wind and light weight lure it was impossible to control it. Bombette lure fishing is aimed exactly for these scenarios.
Bombette tricks
The bombette enabled to cast the small floating lure up to 40-50 yards distance. The target was a promising dark shadow of rocks in 4-6 ft depth as a base or sort of Bream colony. This strike pro floating lure can dive up to 4 ft, the only problem is the lack of control over the lure while working with bombette.

I lengthen the rig between the bombette and the lure to 5 ft to enable sharp diving angle, so the lure will ’scratch’ the rocks surface -which best work for Bream.

Although saltwater Bream isn’t a classic predator it will strike small up to medium size lures as a territorial act. This item released back and I didn’t have more time to search for the big ones, but I’ll be back.

and the dry report details…
Fish- 1/4 pound Bream - one item
Reel - Shimano stradic 4000FH
Line - Berkley Fireline 0.15 ~ 15 pound test
Lure -Strike pro floater minnow
Lure activation- Medium speed retrieve
Rod - Shakspear Trour legend 10-40 gram
Waves - 1 ft
Water visibility - high
Time of the catch - 10:00
Light condition - partial clouds
Water depth estimation of the catch spot- about 2 feet
Hookset - by the fish