queensland Borumba produces firsts and PB's

[pcsolutionman]

Well I decided to give borumba a crack yesterday, was a last minute thought when i woke up but still posted a going fishing notice and sent a txt out to a few of the sunny coats boys to see if anyone wanted to join me. quickly got 5 txt's back 4 who said I cant yah ****** hope yah get nothin lol. the other was from Damo (Stitcho) who said he was already headin up and launching the same time as me, Awesome I though not another session alone so got to the ramp around 11am to see a crap load of expensive bass boats including Skeeters, Nitros, and challengers exiting the water and driving off. not sure but i think there must have been a comp on or somethin, so my hopes were a little down after the dam gettin a flogging all morning and the ski lice out there but hey gotta be in it to win it so I started unloading the yak and getting setup as Damo arrived. we set out and headed a couple of klms down B4 we started fishing, I had a clear bubble pop 65 on one rod and a mazzi pop on the other and damo had a bubble pop 45 and a TN50 on his rods. Damo got the first action of the day within 2 mins of starting a nice surface hit from a toga but didnt stick, WOW good start saw my hopes rise a little. I worked my way up past damo and into a little bay, Cast rith into the back up against some weed and started walkin the bubblepop and BOOOOOOOOf a Massive Toga absolutley smashed it, both mine and damos jaws dropped, had another cast but no touch so i switched it up and threw the mazzi in and boof im on but hang on this is a little feller :shock: :shock: The first fish could have eaten this one ;-) ;-)

quick pic and back he goes

peppered the area but nothing, worked out way round to the first arm on the left and well it was non stop action for both damo and myself with follows hits and dropped fish gallore. picked up this little feller first hit for a change

The next one I landed came back 4 times and I hooked it twice lol, these things can be so ferocious at times

dont know how many fish in the first 2 hours alone Damo and i missed or pulled the hooks on but it was a LOT. I then got an absolute brutt of a fish he dam near did me 3 times ;-) ;-) lmao

well thats my smallest ever toga taken care of, what would be next???

workin back along a bank Damo had already worked and had some good hits I got a monster hit, Knew it was a good fish, but when I saw it jump for the first time :shock: :shock: New it was a PB instantly just hoping it would hang onI peddled him away from some sticks into open water

gettin close to landin him maybe :? :?

Damo then came over and netted him for me was good team work thanks a lot mate

a quick measure and he went just over 80cm

closeup, he really wolloped that bubblepop

and back he goes

We got so many more hits and breif hookups it was an unreal session, I got absolutley dusted by a toga at least the size of that last one it was one of the best surface strikes ive seen, it had enough impact that it broke my main to leader knot :shock: :shock: Damo also got onto some and lost a heap to but ill let him tell u his story.

Man what an arvo thanks a lot for the company, good camera work and netting skills Damo

Lee

[wesfish]

awesome toga there, i will have to go there to get my first for sure!!!!! great pics!!!!

[dan25]

thats an awesome fish! :cheer:

great looking spot aswell.

[rastus]

those are some nice catches. i have had a thing for the toga since i was little the first time i saw one tho never had the chance to go chase them. i might have to change that.

thanks for the post and you got some very nice photo's in there

[kiwifisho]

Wat a great PB Toga Lee: woohoo: :woohoo: .There seems to be alot of Togas bein caught at the mo.Good stuff mate

Dean

[STU]

Thats awesome lee and to think I pulled out of a weekend trip there cause I thought the rain would of stuffed it obviously not.

[tacklebox]

Cracker fish once again Lee. Borumba's on our list to try some time. Good to have your own photographer tagging along too :laugh:

[pcsolutionman]

STU wrote:

Thats awesome lee and to think I pulled out of a weekend trip there cause I thought the rain would of stuffed it obviously not.

Stu the dam is very clear atm suprisingly and the fish are going off

Lee

[Rocket75]

what a whopper! good stuff Lee.

I wonder if all the other boats had been working lower in the column for bass and the toga were feeling unloved:laugh: nice of you to pay them some attention

Rocket

[pcsolutionman]

Rocket its only ever the toga i pay attention to there lol, it was insane though we probly lost 15-20 fish each me 2 other monsters and damo 1 monster

Lee

[chris_stewart14]

Fantastic photography mate! Incredible fish. Well done.

[tugger]

well done lee lots of togas and a lot of them dropping off ever tried single hooks instead of your trebles. less likely of spitting the hook

[James W]

you got this toga game sorted lee!..nice PB mate, im sure it wont be long till ya beat it thou :laugh:

[apoklyps60]

that is so awesome that u guys catch scleropages saratogas in the wild. we keep them here in tanks in the US. i used to feed my fish pinky mice and that brute would hammer the top of the tank to get to it. great catches. the last one is a brute. those ones get up to 3 feet in length. the south american ones can get upwards of 2 meters. beautiful fish. congrats brotha.

fish on!!

Vin

[Terry H]

apoklyps60, they get over 3 feet here. I think the largest I've seen/heard was about 4 feet

[Ben Derecki]

Great pics mate and a killer story to give anyone sitting at work reading the forums itchy feet...

I think it's gonna be a loooong day.

[bretto]

Another cracker trip lee. good to see the little one in there. A good sign for the future I guess. Congrats on the PB too.

[pcsolutionman]

bretto wrote:

Another cracker trip lee. good to see the little one in there. A good sign for the future I guess. Congrats on the PB too.

Yeah it is Brett we saw a heap of the little ones in schools of 3-4

Lee

[kiwifisho]

Can this place be fished landbased Lee

Dean

[pcsolutionman]

kiwifisho wrote:

Can this place be fished landbased Lee

Dean

Mate not really, Id be happy to take u out once i got me boat mate ;) wont be long

Lee

[kiwifisho]

That would be great thanx Lee I will take ya up on that offer :woohoo:

Dean

[Little Grey Men]

They are such a beautiful looking fish.....nice piccies too. Awesome stuff.

[pcsolutionman]

Headin back tomorrow, fingers crossed there still feeding hard

Lee

[Brian D]

Wow Lee, you blow me away. Great report

[kriso]

good luck mate.

[Woolybugger]

Welldone on the fishing trip mate.

I sent you a PM.

Did you manage to get up to the first big Bay on the left?

[straddiebrad]

mate thats a great effort never caught those before u must have been stocked,and what a hard fight they must have been

[Angus]

Horse Toga mate well done!

[tomca]

I'm there tomorrow for a sunrise fly session, and hopefully Lee hasn't caught all of them yet.

with any luck my report will have at least 1/20th of the action Lee got.:blush:

[Terry H]

Theres lots of small <50cm toga cruising around mate. You probably wont see them in the yak though.

I scored a few with a once gold mazi vibe (now mostly white with a few specs of gold :laugh: )

[tomca]

just going up to suss out the place tomorrow, mainly. Taking the girl up there next weekend camping. Might take the boat next week.

[pcsolutionman]

Thanks Angus., Yeah we got onto 7 more and lost a few on the weekend ill post a report soon. the one i lost was a BIG fish close to 1M

Lee

[Smiderman]

looks like a great session and some entertaining fishing to boot. great report:)