few pics from this morn!

[Bass flicker]

Went to the salty end of the Hawkesbury today chasing EP's , it seems they have packed up down there for this year and headed back up river. We decided to just catch some dinner and pulled one nice little bream 30cm and three nice eating size flatty's between 40 - 45cm. Thoug once I had cleaned the fish a bastard pelican stole my bream when my back was turned!!! The mongrel reached up onto the cleaning table and took the 30cm specimen in one hit!!!! So Im only eating flatties for dinner!

All fish were caught using Gulp minnows in pearl water melon colour.

[borisboga]

Good on you mate.
And dont worry about the bream... you have your flatties.

Boris

[Bass flicker]

I do relise the pelican made a bad choice and left me with the better tasting fish, but it took many casts and a wet bum to get that fish:ranting2:

[storms72]

Good stuff there mate.....A fella I work with has been cleaning up on bass recently with this wonderful weather....I will have to organise a weekend mission with yourself, him and I!

[fishinf]

well done bf nice feed there
looks like you kicked off the bream records

[Bass flicker]

well done bf nice feed there
looks like you kicked off the bream records

Obviously from that pic I was thinking about it. It went about 28cm to the fork. The photo was of poor quality and didnt show clear measurment, and besides, it was a very small bream by bream chaser standards. A pan fish not a record fish!

[2Pipperty]

Nice catch man, you have to watch those pelicans down at parsley bay, they are hungry buggers. Was it busy out their on the water?

[TomMc]

nice catch BF
bloody pelicans!
anyways great to see youve been gettin on the water!

[xtosea]

Top feed there BF, i hate those resident Pelicans at the Boat ramp there! They have done that to me so many times too! From Dollys to Flatty's!.
Kamil

[mulloway mayhem]

nice feed there BF......them pelicans pi55 me off..when i clean a good jew i feed em all the guts and stuff.....then i turn my back and once 1 of em tried to take off with a 20+kg jew........tell him he is dreaming....:rolling laughter:

also seen a guy cleaning some whiting and they stole a few.....funny when its someone elses fish.......:rolling laughter: :rolling laughter:

[Haji]

Hey Guys, whats the beef with Pelicans?

They are a sign of a healthy enviroment and a fun bird to watch as they squable over bits that you throw to them. I have even had some take pillies out of my hand. Magic!

Sure they might steal the odd fish if you are not looking but you can't blame them for that, there only looking for their daily feed.

I would rather have a hundred Pelicans around my fishing spots than none at all as their presence is a sure sign that there is food (aka fish) around for them.

Now if you were talking about those bl%^&$ black and white bait stealing mutton birds that dive after every bait that you send down offshore and gobble it up (and get hooked up and cause terrible tangles) I might have to agree with you. Anyone else had problems with Mutton birds?

[quintrex101]

i am with haji there :headbang: :beerchug: there notting wrong with this Pelicans, there just there to get a few fish, not like the bloody Mutton birds:ranting2: , i been fishing just off the heads at hacking and every drop to the bottom the birds where chasing it down, pain in the bloody a%s, i seen one person in botany bay that caught one, also they keep stealing my bait off the hook, fresh slimie mackerel just caught, :Dynamite: ,

[qwikieg]

nice catch! good to serve for dinner! what line did u use?:rolleyes:

[Bass flicker]

nice catch! good to serve for dinner! what line did u use?:rolleyes:

4lb braid with 8lb flurocarbon leader.

[fish boy]

nise fish there:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[HSV]

Hey Bass Flicker nice catch buddy. man the pelicans got my mate once as well at The Entrance, it was dark and the bastard sneacked up on him as he was cleaning his bream...Hott