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Fish were hard to find this morning as they had moved on from there latest spots. The early fog and glassed out conditions enabled Hai o take some great photos and I also managed some out of focus ones. We ended up with 37 bass and a couple of Beefys pies for the trip home. 519655653_24200951316188424_6208520146739806647_n.mp4

Yesterdays trip to area 3 once again turned into a photo shoot instead of a fishing report.. Despite several people reporting good catches on Satuday and getting good advice from Noel we lucked out and resorted to chasing individual fish on the sounder for a total of 10 bass,1 yes,one tandan and one forky for 7hours effort. Thanks to Hai for some great photos

Cold and bleak start at the western arm this morning. It was just a bit cool when we went to do our pots in the ramp bay but when we moved out into open water it was freezing with a cold wind blowing. Last trip our shrimp pots were a bit light on so we moved half of them to a new location and they were worse. We moved up near the barrage and found some fish in 20 odd feet and hit the spotlock and stayed there until we ran out of bait for a total of 42 bass. Best bass 46cm. The wind dropped out around 10ish and we had glass out after then.

She was also there last week

Bit windy when we first launched but who cares when the fish are hungry and I reckon when the spot lock is yawing about you catch more fish as the bait is moving around. As previous trip the fish were just in front of the ramp. We did not do as well as last trip with only 121 bass boated . All caught on live shrimp. Beefys pie on the way home. Who goes swimming at 7.30 ?

barometer was 1024 so much for fish a plenty. We were not the only one to do poorly.

Hard going at area 3 this morning with live shrimp. Could not find a school ( Except for forkys) anywhere, Ended up slow trolling live shrimp along drop offs for a total of 11 bass and one forky 2 best bass 40 and 35cm and 4 bass under 30cm.

Western arm this morning for a cool start at 6am. We went straight across from the ramp where we did well last trip only to find that the bass have moved on. Next task was to check our shrimp pots. They have not been producing very well so we decided to relocate them, We tried a few spots looking for fish but they were scarce with not a fish boated by 10am. We headed upstream towards the barrier up until then there was no wind with glass out conditions and then someone turned on the fan and we quickly had to don on all our hoodies and trackydaks again. We moved around a bit and found one school at 17 feet. but we had to move as the barred grunter moved in. Next school we located was at 25 feet and we enjoyed a hot bite until we ran out of shrimp with a total tally of 50 bass all tagged and released.

Do not know if it was luck ,skill, barometer at 1023, or fact that the dam has been closed to fishing for several months but we certainly enjoyed it,

No idea as they were not spitting anything out as we were bringing them in a lot of them would have been roed up as it is spawning season.

4 of us did better than the aussie test team at baroon pocket this morning. We would have done a lot better except one of our team members was too sick to go to work and was not performing at his best. We launched at 630 and i turned on the sounder and the screen was lit up so we did a quick about turn and hit the spot lock and did not move till 10 am when we ran out of shrimp. Total was 162 bass with 2 of them already tagged and the rest tagged and released. All within 100 yards of the ramp. Pelican was a pest trying to steal fish till I wacked it with the gaff.

Good day in area 3 this morning with 21 bass and one tandan. All on live shrimp ,tagged and released. Only 3 fish under legal and a lot over 40cm. Mostly caught on the point opposite the wire fence. Plenty of north pine budgerigars roosting on the points. Saddened to see someone's pride and joy burnt out at the gate. A lot of the photos courtesy of Hai,

Was a bit cool at the western arm yesterday morning with Craig, We launched at 6am and went opposite the ramp to look for Craigs pots that he placed over a month ago. When we arrived at the approximate location it was still too dark to see properly so we had a look at the sounder and saw some fish at 15 feet. We still had some shrimp left from last trip. At 10 am we ran out of bait and the bite had slowed down and we were only catching unders. We were very close to Craig's pots so we rebaited them and went exploring upstream for only a couple of fish. We realized how cold it was when we were not catching fish so we called it a day. Gee it was good to be in the car out of the wind and the heater on. Tally was25 bass and one tandan that Rick had previously tagged a couple of ks away. All fish tagged and released.

I am getting old as I am too buggered to post after a days fishing. When get home I just put the batterys on charge and hit the sack for a lie down. 4 of us braved the cool at the hinze eastern arm yesterday and after doing our shrimp pots started exploring amongst the tree upstream on the LHS. We found scattered fish in the 14ft mark but no schools ,ditto near the old cattle dip. Around 10 30 we pulled into one of our old spots and fired up the barby for a feast of gourmet sausages ,black pudding, home smoked bacon ,plus usual cheese, onion and beetroot slapped on a couple of slices of bread. While Tai was busy cooking we continued to catch the odd bass and tandan. We finished up with over 30 bass and 3 tandans. One of the tandans that Craig caught he tagged a couple of months ago. All fish tagged and released . Photos courtesy of Tai as once again I left my camera at home.

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