queensland Skinny water Bassin 15/16

[Dinodadog]

Headed off to the Gold Coast hinterland for a visit and like you do threw the rods in at the last minute. Glad I did as I got amongst some skinny water bass.

Sat arvo about 4pm went for a walk along the creek and in about a foot of water I saw a silver flash between the rocks on the bottom. Had a look in the little plastic cont that I had and seen I didnt put any surface lures in, so on went a beetlespin with a 1/8 jig head with a 2inch paddle tail grub. I cast to the other side of the creek and high sticked the rod and done a slow retreive so the lure was just under the surface of the water. About half way in a bass darted out from behind a rock and nailed it. By the next cast after my second bass I had lost both of the beetlespins I had to submerged snags, so I then started on 1/8oz s/baits, a size I havn't used for the years, the 1st bass on this the skirt and band holding it on fell to bits. A few more were caught on s/baits before it was feeling to uncomfortable to be standing in long grass as somebody was dimming the lights.

Sun morn got up early and snuck out like a mongrel dog so as not to wake anyone and hit the creek in the same area. But there was no fish, just a beautiful little platipus feeding along the bottom. So after several cast in skinny water with no luck I thought I better start walking to find some deeper holes. Luck was with me the 1st deep hole I came to produced a bass a little bigger than the ones the arvo before and the next hole the same thing and then a phonecall to say your b/fast is getting cold. Anyway I'll be back and to the Albert river bass fishermen, your safe for a bit longer.:woohoo:

Fish while you can

Dinodadog

bass [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/rions_021.JPG

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another [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/rions_022.JPG

[Dinodadog]

area they came from you can see the bottom [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/rions_025.JPG

[Dinodadog]

sun morn bass from deeper holes [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/rions_026.JPG

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another [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/rions_027.JPG

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deep hole in foreground [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/rions_028.JPG

[Dinodadog]

our accom for sat night, thank goodness the end part was air cond [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/rions_029.JPG

[Bommie]

nice one Dino, gotta love that type of fishing

[Dazzamcgee]

Nice work Dino!!!

Well done!!

[Pobblebonk]

Nice work! Where abouts did you go?

Lucky to see a platy, they're my favourite.

[Dinodadog]

Bommie this is the style of fishing I started on

Dazza all released so I can catch them again

Pobblebonk close to canungra

[Dinodadog]

for pobblebonk best shot I had of platty

[Dinodadog]

forgot to resize [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/rions_024.JPG

[chubbstar]

Great report Dino, Looks like a lovely area and Very relaxing.

Top stuff:woohoo:

Jayson

[maxi]

thanks dino, great stuff... beautiful condition on those fish ...

oh yeah almost forgot... got the pic of flower head, awesome mate, thanks again ..

Maxi

[Dinodadog]

Jayson yes mate hope its still there

Maxi same plant pic from last year, more flower heads

[paul10]

Hey Dino. I'm heading to canungra for a camping weekend in December and where we are staying has a nice deep part of the creek in it. Could you recommend maybe just one or two lures I could throw around to see what I can get. You seem to do pretty well in the freshwater. Thanks for your advice.

Paul

[Dinodadog]

Paul I find a small s/bait ideal for small creek fishing, but you can take a couple of shallow diving hardbodies, a few small surface lures fizzers or paddlers or poppers and maybe take some sp's with very light jigheads.

[paul10]

Mate. :blink: I haven't been fishing long enough or even read enough posts to know what the heck you were just talking about. Any chance of really dumbing it down for this lure rookie. I own only 3 lures one of which is an sx40 I bought the other day just because everyone talks about them here.

Paul

[Brian D]

Paul, here are some lures I use in the area. Hope it helps. Great report the Dino, thanks. Nice spot someone has got there. [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P4060009_AFO-e0632b1926ada2b3c539e978b11341ec.jpg

[Brian D]

Sorry Paul, wrong photo, disrequard most the stuff in the top row, here's a better pic [img size=492]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/zse.JPG

[Dinodadog]

As Brian has shown the little torpedo shape with the propeller are the fizzers and the ones with the wings are the paddlers or crawlers. I am spinnerbait mad so I always start all freshwater fishing with s/baits, helps me find out the depth and where the underwater snags are before I let loose the dearer lures.