Where do you catch them?
Yellowfin Bream can be found all along the Queensland, New South Wales and Victorian coast lines. They live in salt water esturaries, inshore rocky reefs, ocean beaches and around rocky headlands.

In a boat, I am heading to the estuaries… looking for rocky out crops, over hanging trees, or trees in the water.

How do you catch them
Fishing light is the way to go, with a freshly peel prawn if you don’t have live nippers with just as mich weight as you need to sink the bait.

These fish can spook easily so no bashing about in your boat. Sounds travels (well, that is what I was told as a little tacker – might have just been to keep me quiet. ;))

How do you rig your line?
If you are running a very small weight, or no weight at all – swivel with a 30-40cm leader to a 1/0 hook.

If you need a bit of weight on the line then – weight on main line to swivel, 30-40cm leader to a 1/0 hook.

How big do they get?
They grow up to 60cm and weight about 4kg.

Legal Size
NSW: 25cm

Bag Limit
20 in total (that is Black, Southern, Yellofin and Tarwhine)

What do they eat?
Bream are opportunistic feeders whos diet includes small crabs, powers, molluscs, pipis and small fish.