If David ‘Schoie’ Schofield can’t catch a bream off Stockton Beach, no one can.
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Schoie, who knows every pipi personally, targets snowy white, bright-eyed travelling bream as they move north searching for deeper holes and ‘gutters’ to lay up. Schoie arrives early to gather bait and wait for the tide to rise. Pipis and worms are the preferred baits when chasing thumping bream off the popular bream beaches, including One Mile and Fingal.
This is bream season and the reports are coming in thick and fast. On these moonless nights with a chilly south wind blowing over your shoulder, head for Tomaree Torpedo Tube on a rising tide in a grumpy sea. Toss an unweighted cube of fresh mullet or prawn into the darkness on a 2/0 hook and, you guessed it, hang on.
There is a better place. The Grit Hole on Fingal Island is the world’s greatest bream spot. But it is very difficult to get to. The safest way is to travel by boat to the island. Don’t consider crossing the Fingal spit for obvious reasons.