A friend and I took the dinghy out for a bit of a test run in the river after a long lay off yesterday and we fished some spots in the canning river.  We anchored up in the lee of a point for a bit and benno was working a small popper around.  In two seperate casts he had something big have two or three strikes at the popper but no hookup, had both of us thinking what it might be.  I know people say mulloway get caught on sp's and other lures, what about a popper?

If it was a bream, it was the grandaddy of them all, but aside from a mulloway, I dont know of anything else with a thick body profile in silver like that?

Aside from about 300 blowies, I managed to bring a nice black bream to the side of the boat, but lose it while trying to boat it as we had left the net behind.

Not a bad day in all.