queensland Big W 16th and NPD 17th

[Dinodadog]

Picked up my new rod from Lee,s place and its a little ripper. Thought I had better try it out so I packed the buggy, hooked up the elec boat and treked over the mountain to Wivenhoe. On arrival was greeted by thick fog which didn't clear until 9.30am. I said to the mate we might have a quick cast from the bank before we put the boat in. On my 2nd cast with my new rod I was on to a solid fish, I thought to myself this will try it out and thats exactly what the fish did she kept heading for the bottom, but with my new Lee built Loomis she was no match. When I finaly got her in she was 54.5cm.

Then soon after we put the boat in and headed off in search of those hard to find schools of bass. While trolling some 28ft deep lures in 35ft of water my mate hooked upto to a nice 52cm bass and while he was releasing it I noticed we were over a massive school all the arch's on the sounder were nice and thick and I said to the mate these are bass not catties, so after pulling up about 8 catfish each all over 60cm I put the thin lines are catties and the thick lines are bass theory, back in the box.

We then trolled around again searching but unable to find any more schools andon the way back to the ramp I picked up a 40+ bass in 25ft of water. So a few nice fish,a heap of extra large catties and a nice day on the water, I was happy.

NPD this morning was another winner as I was trying out my 3000 SOL reel I had purchased months ago. On my 1st cast I hooked into a nice 50cm bass and was able to play it with ease with the new reel. Picked up a couple of small bass after that and had to leave early but not before running into Faulked and Emily, nice to say hello to fellow AFO people, sorry I had to leave so early.

Fish while you can

Dinodadog [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/b_001.JPG

[Dinodadog]

same fish [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/b_002.JPG

[Dinodadog]

50cm from NPD [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/b_003.JPG

[Plastic Man]

nice fish dennis well done

[mangler]

Nice bass there mate, what a great way to break in the new rod, well done! There has been some really nice fish coming out of both these dams lately from all these reports, really must get out there and get in amongst the action myself soon.

Cheers,

Matt

[Dinodadog]

Andrew those schools are hard to find

Mangler its only going to get better

[mangler]

Dino, yes I hope it does get better, I haven't been freshwater fishing for a fair while would love to get out again soon, some of the bass and yellowbellys have been great.

Cheers,

Matt

[rayke1938]

Thanks for good report and nice fish.

Cheers

Ray

[Dinodadog]

Ray some of the catfish were that big I thought I was pulling up lungfish, speaking of which I saw the biggest lungfish I have ever seen, its head had to be a foot thick.

[Plastic Man]

yeah their all over the place i see them every trip jb got one on a jackall last friday took 4 mins to land it went 110cm he got it all on film too

[brisfisher]

nice work mate,ive tried land based many times at wivenhoe with little result n u manage a 50 odd cm fish second cast?my hat goes off to you mate,well done:)

[Cowfish13]

The second and third photo's really show a difference in the health of fish from the two dams. Big W's is so much fatter than the NPD fish (judging from the photo atleast:))

Great report as always DinoB), don't know how you do it

[EMP]

Cowfish13 wrote:

The second and third photo's really show a difference in the health of fish from the two dams. Big W's is so much fatter than the NPD fish (judging from the photo atleast:))

Great report as always DinoB), don't know how you do it

Totally right, Cowfish. I noticed that as well.

Once again, Dino has shown us his bass mastery.

EMP

[Mozza]

`well done dino great fish there mate

[Dinodadog]

Brisfisher at the moment we seem to do better from the bank

Cowfish yes they are realy healthy fish

EMP the more you fish the more fish you catch

Mazza there are some good ones to be had there

[rayke1938]

Dinodadog wrote:[/b

Dinodadog [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/b_001.JPG

[Dinodadog]

Ray I wanted to get the rod in the photo but needed 2 hands for the fish ha ha. I had a 1500 symeter on it, but will be putting my stradic 2500 on it and keeping it for a boat casting rod for big fish dams, too good to be used as a bulldozer at NPD

[MichaelJ]

another 2 great bass to the master

[Jords]

Cowfish13 wrote:

The second and third photo's really show a difference in the health of fish from the two dams. Big W's is so much fatter than the NPD fish (judging from the photo atleast:))

would that be to do with food source between the two dams??

or what would cause the size difference?

[Dinodadog]

That is a good question as both dams have a good supply of boney bream. Wivenhoe has heaps of schools of small catties maybe the bass feed on these.

[Jords]

speakign of which

has anyone ever used bony bream as bait?

or are they too hard to aquire?

[Dinodadog]

I have used small ones that I have found slightly injured floating on top of the water, got bass with them. Have also tried dead ones I have found washed up on the shore with no luck.

[Feral]

All the time for sharks. Great bait.

Would be hard to acquire in the dams, you would need to use a trap.

[Dinodadog]

We used to get the odd ones in the shrimp trap

[STU]

All I can say Dennis does it again

[Dinodadog]

Thats enough to keep me interested ha ha

[Dinodadog]

Stu I have to put some time into Sommerset to while I have the boating permit, its been a hard dam for me over the last few years

[big dyl]

nice fish mate:)

[kevinchen19870316]

i've tried bony bream in NPD and got an average 40ish bass.

welldone dino and i'll hit there soon when USPS parcel arrives.

[STU]

Dinodadog wrote:

Stu I have to put some time into Sommerset to while I have the boating permit, its been a hard dam for me over the last few years

yeah you should give it another go I know it pretty well so let me Know when your going But my boating permit only covers my electric boat not the bigger one they would not give me 2 sets of stickers said I had to pay another 100 so when I go there will get a weekly one

[Dinodadog]

I won't let it beat me