EP199 | Swan River Shootout – WA Boat Round 3 Breakdown

About this episode

The episode covers the final boat round of the 2025 WA BREAM Series on the Swan River, featuring interviews with top teams and discussions on fishing strategies.

In this episode of The Bream Fishing Project we head across the country to Western Australia for the final boat round of the 2025 WA BREAM Series, held on the iconic Swan River in the heart of Perth. This one-day shootout produced some quality fish and plenty of tactical decisions as teams battled changing wind, subtle bite windows, structure fishing and ultra-finicky Swan River bream. The episode features interviews with: Travis Newland & Josh Phillips (1st Place) Aiden & Herbert Miller (2nd Place) Callum Dow & Oliver Frank from Outback Bream Baits (4th Place) We dive deep into: fishing bridge pylons and retaining walls mussel presentations crankbait techniques line control in wind and current how subtle angles and lure placement changed the bite pre-fish struggles and tournament adjustments Swan River structure fishing strategies and the importance of timing bite windows on tough systems There’s also plenty of discussion around: the Outback Bream Baits Muss the new Shine Away leader treatment product crankbait retrieves tournament decision making and how WA anglers are targeting big pre-spawn bream in urban systems. Aiden and Herbert Miller also share the story of…

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Death

Guests: Travis Newland, Josh Phillips, Aiden Miller, Herbert Miller, Callum Dow, Oliver Frank

Topics covered

• fishing techniques
• tournament strategies
• Swan River bream
• father-son fishing teams
• tactical decisions
• bite windows

Keywords

• BREAM Series
• Swan River
• fishing techniques
• tournament
• bite windows
• crankbait
• father-son team
• urban fishing

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Outback Bream Baits Muss, Shine Away leader treatment product

Places: Swan River, Perth

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