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Healey Drops 5.24kg on Final Day for Hawkesbury win Perennial BREAM event contender, Mark Healey, dropped a massive 5/5, 5.24kg limit on the scales on Day 2 to jump into first place and win $4,250 at the Daiwa round of the Daiwa BREAM Series on
Here’s how he did it. “I really like how this arena fishes in summer – with topwater, crankbaits and other reaction baits coming into play – but in May I had to change my tactics and use a deeper soft plastic
and crab presentation,” Mark explained. And the Saturday didn’t start well for him. He did half an hour in Pittwater and then headed upriver. After several fruitless hours, he headed to his milk run of washes in
Mark Healey dropped a bag of monster yellowfin bream like this on the scales on Sunday to jump into first place. They mostly ate Cranka Crabs fished through the kelp. Broken Bay with a single fish in the livewell at 11am. Catching two fish in two casts and identifying a patch of bream, he spot-locked the boat and didn’t move until he had his Day 1 limit onboard. “I used a variety of plastics rigged on a 1.5g jighead and fished it right in close to the wash,” he said.
Healey earned $4,250 and instant qualification to the Daiwa BREAM Grand Final at Port Stephens later in the year where he will be in the running for a $50,000 Alloycraft/Mercury boat package.
braid and 6lb Ocea leader. “I have six or eight of these outfits and I use them for everything,” he continued. “They’re light in the hand and I can throw any lure on them.” Healey experienced a change on the Sunday, although he couldn’t put his finger on the cause.
the Hawkesbury River. The win qualified him instantly for the 2023 BREAM Grand Final, to be held at Port Stephens in November. Last time the BREAM rounds visited Port Stephens, Healey was also at the top of the Boater leaderboard at the end of the event. The BREAM Grand Final Scan the QR code to watch the Boater Winners Interview
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just got a whole lot more competitive. Healey assembled a 5/5, 3.56kg bay on Day 1, which provided the ideal platform to go big on the Sunday. His total weight of 10/10, 8.79kg outdistanced last year’s champion, Michael Colotourous, by 165g.
Taka Kawasaki loved clinching his first ABT Trophy from the back of the boat, but we are sure that he already has a lot of the Daiwa gear he won to complement the win.
Two, consistent 4kg+ bags left Michael Colotouros in a strong second place, 160g behind Healey.
BOATER RESULTS
112 JUNE 2023
Full results at abt.org.au
“It was just what the bream wanted on a day when I didn’t really have any big bites.” He fished all his presentations on a Shimano TwinPower 1000 or 2500 reel on Zodias L or UL rod spooled with 6lb Kairiki
Place
Angler
Fish
Weight(kg)
Payout
1
Mark Healey
10/10
8.790kg
$4,250
2
Michael Colotouros
10/10
8.625kg
$2,000 + $250 Mercury
3
Kris Hickson
10/10
8.610kg
$1,100 + $125 Mercury
4
Liam Carruthers
10/10
6.245kg
$900 + $75 Mercury
5
Hayden Wadsworth
10/10
6.120kg
$800
6
Grant Oliver
10/10
6.045kg
$750
7
Andrew Moore
10/10
5.915kg
$700
8
Steve Morgan
10/10
5.895kg
$650
9
Jamie McKeown
10/10
5.785kg
$600
10
Ryland Sainsbury
10/10
5.535kg
$550
“It may have been the sou’wester change, but the fish were bigger and hungrier on the Sunday in the same places I caught them on the Saturday,” Mark said. “I would have thrown back an entire limit of 32cm fork length fish, which was crazy.” Mark bagged an early limit on the Sunday in overcast conditions on the UV coloured Cranka Crab, but then switched to the spotted colour to catch bream later in the sunnier conditions. At the end of the 20-fish session, his limit topped the magical 5kg mark and surpassed a steady Michael Colotouros by 165g. COLOTOUROS GAVE 150% Michael Colotouros always quantifies his effort in percentages, and he