queensland Saratoga he is still shaking

[Dinodadog]

Arrived at the gate at NPD and shortly after Andrew then James arrived`. As I had had a couple of very good days downstream I decided to let the others have thier turn and Luke and myself headed upstream to do some exploring.

After a couple of hours of trolling and casting the tally was still nill. I was starting to kick myself for not going where I knew the fish were. Lucky things took a turn for the better, we passed over a 18ft hole trolling flikashads and I said to Luke there is one fish down there at 10ft lets see if one of us can get on the board. With in a few metres luke was on and heading skyward was this beautiful saratoga trying to shake the hooks, this is about the time that Luke got a case of the ducks and drakes (shakes) and I bet he is still shaking :woohoo: :woohoo: I told him to take his time, keep in contact with the fish and dont pull to hard in case he pulls the hooks, he handled it like a pro and 76cm of saratoga came aboard for a couple of quick pics and then back in the water with no mud dirt or leaves stuck to it.

I had to pull my finger out then as I was still on a donut so within minutes I picked up a bass on a flikashad and one on a shrimp. I got the most fish but I think we might let Luke be the winner.

Dino

[bersim]

Whoa!!!!! :woohoo: That's such a beautiful big toga!!!! I would trade all my bass from yesterday for just one of these prehistoric fish

James

[basshunter1987]

Back to targeting Bass next trip I think. Apparently I've become useless at catching them haha

[Binder]

Way to go Luke, beautiful fish. The colours really stand out!

how long did it take you to swim back to the ramp

[Angus]

Awesome fish and good to see one from NP!

Well done.

Angus

[Samrenny]

Amazing fish mate, beautiful looking creatures toga! Caught my first earlier this year, very acrobatic fighters that's for sure!

[Bi_polar]

Awesome fish guys, Gotta definatly agree with you on the sticks and mud on a beautiful fish like a toga Dino...nothing worse than seeing that.

[fishingnut]

Very jealous we'll done !

[Luc53]

Great fish, probably more like it but still a lot of water between fish

[fishingnut]

Out of 300 permits I reckon it would be less that 5% of that 300 would head out and actively target toga and that 5% would only have maybe 10% of the dam to target them ! They are there just not targeted

[Dinodadog]

Yes I never target them to busy catching bass.

Dino

[kmcrosby78]

Fantastic toga mate, I can't recall seeing a bigger one! You must have one HUGE smile!!!

[samsteele115]

Unreal mate. That's a great looking toga

[elops]

She is a nice looking fish.

[STKE]

That's a bloody ripper. Congrats on that.

[Nog]

Straight to the pool room with that one. Well done

[Luvit]

Major achievement Luke.

Well done

[basshunter1987]

Thanks guys, definitely one of my very best captures for sure. A new PB for Toga, and I'm happy to finally see one from North Pine Dam! I can't say it was anything other than pure luck, as I only avoided a donut by 76cm (). But I guess you're always a chance, when you're on the water with a lure in the water

[EZY]

No amount of bass could beat that, toga wins. Outstanding and congrats. Ezy