queensland Bass, Bass And More Bass

[Dinodadog]

Tried to find a place out of the wind and rain, so headed north, half way there the radio said sunshine coast getting heaviest wind and rain. Rather than turn around I decided to soldier on. Result hardly any wind and no rain until I got back to the car.

Started off trolling, picked up a couple, tried the fly when I found a school, no luck, tried blades, no luck same for hardbodies and plastics. So I switched to shrimp, no luck. Then someone turned the switch on at 7 am and it was a frenzy till 9am .Pics shortly.

Dino                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

[Dinodadog]

pics

[Luc53]

He who dares win 

[Dinodadog]

Willy weather gets it wrong so often and now the radio is wrong.

[Luc53]

You can't really tell until you get there.

[kmcrosby78]

Nice one Dino, the gamble paid off. That's one very hungry spanglie!!

[natang]

Can't believe the size of the lure that Spanglie took! I have heard of them taking lures bigger then themselves sometimes. As always a great catch of Bass there Dino! 

[Dinodadog]

I found it hard to tempt the bass to take a lure, so I thought the green iridescent eyes might get them in.We used to catch hundreds of bass on lures there, but ever since half the bass went over the wall years a go and the stayers got bigger, they also got smarter. They should start taking blades shortly before winter sets in.

[rayke1938]

10 hours ago, Dinodadog said:

Willy weather gets it wrong so often and now the radio is wrong.

When the helipad was operational you used to be able to get local aviation conditions. Now you have to rely on BOM based at Nambour.

Cheers

Ray

[Drop Bear]

Some nice fish there mate. That looks like a very big spangled perch. Do they get bigger than that?

Thanks for the report and good on you for soldiering on! 

[Dinodadog]

When we first started fishing NPD from boats we used to get them 35cm

[Luc53]

After the dam was first built, I've caught some pushing the kilo mark.

Used to be great fun trowing small lures from the rock wall near Forgan Park.

They then bred like crazy and stunted.

I've always wondered if a selective breeding program could have achieved a "big" strain of spanglies!!

Kilo plus spanglies would be awsome.

[Dinodadog]

I was catching them on surface lures a few months back at baroon, then havnt seen them till now.