queensland North Pine Thumpa

[Little Grey Men]

I met Dino at the gate in the pre dawn darkness to go and harass the bass. The fish are still quite hard to find with eight or nine ( lose count as the morning rolls on )being boated all up. Dino was on five and I got three or four.

I came across this bass which I'd called for a snag, the lure was stopped dead and the drag was peeling off the little ol Bantam at a steady pace. Dino eased up on the throttle and we were preparing to desnag when I felt a good kick.....It was a fish. I eased the fish to the boat as it was only pinned by one hook in the top lip and it was giggles all round as we caught a glimpse of a thumpin' North Pine lump. At 53.5 Total length this beats my personal best by 0.5cm.

Thanks for letting me park my bum in your boat Dino. Always a great time on the water, with lots of laughs and some great info passed my way.

Dino may want to add some pics here later.

[chris_stewart14]

Thumper alright! Great fish mate.. Well done on the PB.. Seem to be coming back on the chew slowly but surely.. Might haveto drag my butt out there again. What'd he take?

Chris

[Angus]

Well done mate. Good to see some fish like the NP of old

[Little Grey Men]

This one grabbed an Ayu coloured TN60 Chris.

[tacklebox]

Congrats on your PB. What a great looking fish!

[fishyman]

nice one mate

great fish, i might head out to NP on friday

[Feral]

Plenty on the sounder today, most people I spoke with got a few. Ferg's lure he made for my birthday did the job for me on the way back to the ramp.

Was a nice morning, weather was perfect. Managed to paddle about 6k, no sore bits yet, so even though I have done bugger all paddling of late I must still have some tone.

[Zim man]

very nice fish mate

[Travis]

Nice fish mate :woohoo:

[Enjoyfish1]

Well done. great fish for NPD.

[Rocket75]

ooh yeh, bring on the big ones! well done LGM, great PB fish.

[Dinodadog]

Well done LGM a great new PB, and with nice smoko like you had you are invited again.

Here is one of the 1st ones we tagged this morning

[Brian D]

don't worry about tagging it, just throw a rope around it and ride it to the lap. Huge.

[Dinodadog]

try again

[Dinodadog]

Try one more time

[Dinodadog]

test

[Dinodadog]

nother test

[Davo_Dinkum]

some big bass

some nice fat ones too

nice hey.

[Do$tylz]

wow... thats a monster. NPD's looking a little better. Anything to do with the warmer weather?