Hey fellas, anyone else do any fishing over the weekend??????

Was planning on taking the boat out to my snappy wreck and like many of you the thought of fishing in the rain, fighting the traffic and for some paying tolls put me off so it was the 5 minute drive river bass option. I really enjoy getting into the salt and smelling the 2 stroke but hey sometimes we gotta take what we can get to wet a line.

Had a quickie on saturday when the rain first started with my son-he spent more time throwing rocks into the water which was fine he enjoyed himself, I had a couple of hits on spinner baits and got the chance to check the flow at the weir and further down at a couple of rapids before we headed home.

This arvo a leave pass was approved at 3pm, I was out the door after a quick crappy nappy change(don't you just hate those half way up the back ones).
Arrived to very light rain and was straight into my first bass on a cicada type padddly thing, sent out a deep diver and it got hit hard-bloody bugger took me straight under a snag and settled himself into his woody home-I opened the bail arm put the rod down and went back to the cicada, caught another on the surface once it was landed and released I closed the bail arm on the other rod and pulled mr bass out of his hole and up it came. Happy as to get the lure back-only bought it last week,....Another 5 or 6 came in after that and then the thunder storm hit so back to the car.

Some don't like bass fishin thats fine but anyone would get a thrill watching any fish hitting a surface lure-I gotta take the video cam down one day to capture the action.,

Nice work Jason... I havent fished for bass since i was about 10... and the river is just down the road.. I should do something about that..

The storm this arvo was a belter as well

good report mate, what's the reel in the photo.


Paul

Very nice catch.

Poly the reel is a shimano saros 3000 on a 3-6kg raider estuary spin rod, I use it when I'm sending out big surface lures and spinner baits, its inbetween the stradic and the symetre-offers the benefits of the stradic only misses out on the titanium spool lip...
.Was also using the lighter 2500 Sustain on a okuma 2-4kg rod-awesome combo which at just on a home theatre set-up and connection was too good a deal to pass up on

Late arvo is the time Jed for some surface action or as a good alternative if you want to get your son into a few dig up the garden for some baby cicada looking things or any type of big fat grub-worms just don't get the bass too excited. Remember to remove the barbs from your hooks so the greedy bass that take the bait down their gullet can be released without too much damage.

Thanks for the replies fellas. Will hope to get some more reports up soon.

Hey storms !
There was plenty of fresh water over my way last 4 days

Odd though I didn't see any wittle bass fishy's swiming around in it

thanks for that Storms, they sound like top out fits.

Paul

JG I know how much you love bass fishing so just to keep you happy I will keep a few next time and you can keep-em as pets-they enjoy eating live bread.

Yeah Poly, they do the job very well and double-up when I get out in the boat-the saros made short work of some healthy snapper a month or so ago.

Actually I did try keeping a few as pets

But I worked out they dont like fly spray to much & croaked so I gave them to Dave

Well @ least he couldn't talk them to death

Also had a rip snorta yabby called Popeye cause of his craws for about 2 years until I 4got to put the lid back on his tank & the Mortein got him too

Got a mate up the coast who has a bass and an ep in seperate tanks, he's had em for a few years now when I visit we sit up at night in the dark and listen to them smashing crickets and guppies in their tanks.