Maribyrnong river Bream and Jewfish, Melbourne fishing
It was a beautiful Monday morning when I was cruising out of the warmies boat ramp at williamstown on my way to pick up Rob for a morning of bream fishing, made even better by the fact that it was a Monday and I didn’t have to go to work!
We decided to fish the Maribyrnong river, and see how it was fishing as we hadn’t been up in there for a while. I picked Rob up near Flemington and we headed up to the first moorings after that to start fishing, Rob only had a few hours before he had to go to work, so down with the electric and straight into it.
It was only a few minutes in when Rob hooked himself a nice bream on a sx40, good start, the fish were definitely around. We kept fishing upstream hitting up jetties and bridges mainly, we were seeing a few fish feeding high on the bridge pylons too.
Next bridge a baby vibe was cast hard up and against a pylon and allowed to sink, and I was into my first bream for the morning, again a nice Maribyrnong bream.
Because Rob only had a couple of hours to fish with me so we cruised upstream and hit up the next bridge. I had changed to a gulp shrimp and was casting tight again the bridge structure allowing it to sink. Second cast I felt the line go tight and I hooked into what thought was a thumper bream. It had a few too many big runs back for cover when I had the inkling it may be something else, something a bit bigger maybe. I managed to keep it off the pylons and coax it out into open water, and when it came up to the surface we were right, a lovely school jewfish had decided to eat my lure. As you can imagine I was pretty happy with catching and releasing my first jewie, it’s a great feeling even when not targeting them.
After taking some pics and releasing the Jewie it was time to drop Rob back off and I set about exploring some new spots ready for the vic bream classic coming up. A few small bream were caught and a nice session was had with the awesome jewie catch fresh in my mind.
More pics in the gallery.
Tight lines.
Great to hear you had a great time. I am about to take some of my older relies on a cruise from the warmies to somewhere up the marybinong, can you tell me how far we can go and what we might expect? Thank you robert
Hi Robert, you can go pretty far up the maribyrnong by boat, I have been as far up as canning reserve, but pretty sure you can go further. This time of year the fishing is a bit slower up the river, with the bream spawning and holding deep, and plenty of coloured water coming down. There are still a few Jewies around though and the bream will be starting to bite, so they will be your best bet. just try a few spots up the system until you find the fish. cheers