Somerset Dam Trip 19-21 October

[Mark80]

Hi everyone,

Just thought i would share my awesome weekend that i just had at Somerset Dam. It was truely a trip to remember.

It started early friday morning with the old man in his car and boat and myself and AFO member Lukey in my car and boat heading to the dam. With camp set up and high hopes in hand we headed out to start the weekends fishing.

We pulled up on some flats where a few bass were showing on the sounder and started. Not long after a nice 47cm bass was boated.I said to lukey that my goal for the weekend was to get a 50cm bass and it would be a pb. No more than 20 minutes later and she was on. A 50cm bass to the boat. My pb. This was followed by a nice yellowbelly of 51cm. Four more bass in the mid to high 40's followed in next couple of hours. On one of the last drifts of the day lukey got smashed. After 3 monster runs a 54cm bass was boated. It was easily the biggest i had seen.

Saturday was not as productive in numbers as friday was but by no means was it a bad day. A nice 47cm bass was boated on the same flats as friday inside the first 20 minutes. Than nothing. Went over to some rocky banks near by and got a nice yellowbelly. Bass is what we came for so we went back to the flats to try our luck again. After some persistance i got smashed and after a couple of big runs boated a 52cm bass. Anothr pb. The next fish came an hour or so later when i was smashed again. This fish had a monster first run and some hard fighting and more solid runs followed. A 55cm bass was soon boated (another pb) and some cries of joy let out.

The afternoon could only product a 46cm bass and a nice yellowbelly but who really cared. A great trip was had by all and i have a feeling that it will be talked about for some time to come. Photos will be posted by Lukey soon.

Sorry about the length but i had to tell the story.

[STU]

Thats sounds like a top trip cant wait to see the pics congrats on the three pb upgrade

[Lukey]

Mark's first 50cm bass

[Lukey]

We had an awesome weekend up at Somerset, nailing some of the biggest bass we've ever seen. PBs were getting smashed left right and centre!! [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/100_1433_AFO.jpg

[Lukey]

The smallest fish of the trip at a disappointing 37cm:P [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/100_1436_AFO.jpg

[Lukey]

Two PBs on the first day, mine at 54cm and Mark's at 50cm [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/100_1438_AFO.jpg

[Lukey]

The next PB smashed with Mark picking up a 52cm bass [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/100_1452_AFO.jpg

[Lukey]

After a solid fight, next fish was the biggest bass we've ever seen, Mark's 55cm monster. [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/100_1456_AFO.jpg

[Lukey]

Releasing the beast [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/100_1454_AFO.jpg

[Lukey]

A nice Somerset Yella [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/100_1457_AFO.jpg

[werewolf]

awesome report (never apologise about the length of a fishing report!):silly:

those bass are in awesome condition

[Rocket75]

What a great trip! Don't appologise for the length of the story, was a great read.

What lures were doing the damage for you?

Looks as though you kept a couple (PBs)? If so, how are they on the plate? The Hinze ones are quite good.

Nice report, makes me want to go fishing!

Rocket

[mackmauler]

great bass mate, look more bronze than the big fellas from north pine.

what sort of lures did the trick

[Mark80]

We kept our bag limit of bass and released all others. They were real fat bass which had not been short of a feed lately thats for sure. Ate one up there and it was beautiful.

The bass and yellow's were caught on spinnerbaits (bassman 5/8 3 blade in a dark green and some kokada green and orange ones and a white one), a jackall in wakasabi colour (probably not correct spelling lol) and a squidy fish sp.

Funny trip cause the old man was doing exactly the same as us and could not catch a thing. I had to lend him my rod which had done a lot of the damage in order for him to finally land one.

[chubbstar]

:woohoo: A BIG thumbs up fellas, fantastic. I'm stoked for you both.

Allways good to catch let alone smash you're PB's, and then too do it again so soon it's just awsome:woohoo:

[Plastic Man]

great weekend guys nice looking fish awesome top stuff

[Lukey]

Cheers for the comments guys.

Yeah, they were smashing the spinnerbaits. We found that you had to be skipping the lure slowly across the bottom to get a touch, and when they did touch, you knew about it!!!

[Lukey]

I forgot to add that I just cooked one up for dinner, had it with garlic butter, then topped with sweet chilli and sour cream. Not bad, not bad at all.

[Mark80]

That would have got you in the good books. Not only did you bring home fresh fish but you cooked dinner also. Looks like the ground work for thursdays trip has been planted.

[Tim a]

Beasts!

[Lukey]

Sorry Mark, but I've gotta tell em. The funniest thing that happened all trip was when Mark decided he'd try his brand new Jackall. Once he got it out of the packet, it was too hot to handle coz it had been sitting in the sun all day so he decided to dip it in the water to cool it down. When he leant over the side of the boat, one of the trebles jabbed him in the finger and he let go of the jackall. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Next thing he says to me quietly is \"I've just dropped the jackall\". And i went \"he he yeah whatever, ya kidding me right?\" And he goes \"nope\". :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: The first time the bloody thing ever hit water and it didn't have a line attached to it!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Miked]

At $25 a pop that's gota hurt.

Be careful not to leave TN60 Jackalls laying on a hot surface in the sun for any length of time. They will blow up out of shape and start to split and fill with water when you use them. I had a mate who bought 2 and left them on the dash of his car, 3 hrs later they were stuffed.

Cheers

Mike

[Gordo]

Very nice report guys

Nice reports coming from freshwater areas. The fish look very nice and well feed.

[Mark80]

I can laugh about it now but at the time was not happy. Will never do that again for sure.

[James W]

some awesome fish guys..great work!..hey where there many water skiers there?

[Plastic Man]

jimmybob wrote:

some awesome fish guys..great work!..hey where there many water skiers there?

when we went passed on sunday there looked to be a fair few around

[James W]

cheers plastic..just wanted to know cuz im heading that way in november...here coddy coddy cod;)

[Ash]

hey jimmy, when you heading there? If i can get the boat ready i might head there too! Hopefully I DONT sink this boat!:blush:

[ellicat]

Ash wrote:

hey jimmy, when you heading there? If i can get the boat ready i might head there too! Hopefully I sink this boat!:blush:

Ash, I think you've left a word out of that last sentence:ohmy:

[Ash]

WHOOPS!:blush: THANKS ellicat:cheer:

[Mark80]

thanks jimmybob, there were quite a few skiers there from late friday afternoon onwards. I thinks that why the fishing on saturday and sunday was not as good as friday. They mainly ski around the steep banks or the deep water markers which basically meant we were always comeing into contact with them!