Dinodadog

Fish have left the area once again and gone where we are not allowed to follow.So it makes it a bit harder to track down some of the straglers.Only managed a dozen on lures and final count before I gave it away early was 15 bass and one yella.Arh well tomorrow is another day, they might be back for Ray.One of the yakkers had a bit of bad luck, he tipped over and lost his car keys, house keys and his wallet. Dino

A few years a go I spotted a large MRC laying on a log just under the water up at the same spot, I put a cast in and spooked it.I dont know if the one I caught was stocked or it grew up in there.They were stocked many years a go.

Fish were not in big schools, but kept going through under the boat in 2s and 3s

Headed up to Maleny this morning to fish Baroon.First couple of schools I found were mongrel spanglies, they were of good size and fooled me on the sounder as I thought they were bass.Fished a few spots with some producing and some not. Tally was growing on shrimp so I decided to try a few back alleys casting spinnerbaits,While I was doing this I had a couple of baits over the side in case a bass showed up. All of a sudden one of the rods buckled over and I first thought you ripper my first 50 up here for awhile, it was very heavy and I was expecting to see a bass wrapped around a branch surface. Well my eyes opened up when I seen a nice approx 70cm Mary come up.I didnt measure it was in a hurry to get it back in the water, so one pic out of water while removing the hook and a quick one in the water.It was caught on the smallest of shrimp I had. I kept casting in the back waters until I finally got a bass on spinnerbait. All up 78 bass and one MRC. Last time up there I couldnt see a foot in front of me the fog was that thick, this morning I was greeted by the fog in the middle of the first pic. Dino

No but they should be starting to fatten up soon, thats why they should be on an eating frenzy now.There is no big schools of males forming yet, with this new age stuff going on they have probably all turned gay.

I thought I had retired, but I had to work real hard to get a few fish this morning.I was only up to 17 bass and a yella fishing the edges and had to get some more bait fishing to bring the tally up to 33 bass and one yella.It seems to be getting harder each day.Bring on winter. Dino

With sounders, I started out with my sounder years a go, with my settings on fish ID. After awhile I could pick a yellabelly couple on the bottom, by a small symbol for the male and a big one for the female,and on several occasions I would catch one on bait and the mate would come up with it, if my reflex's were better I could of had 2 for the price of one.

PM sent Have a yarn to Ray as well, he has been through a few.

A quite morning made good at the last minute. Started off very slow with a couple trolling flickashads and then put in a thousand casts to the edges for very few fish.I had been hitting up a lot of back alleys and was in the last alley when I noticed a big round blob on the bottom under the boat in 10ft of water,so to investigate I quickly put down 2 shrimp rigs,well hell broke loose, first one rod buckled over, then the other rod.First up came the blob which was a whopper yella, next was another whopper a 51cm bass.Well the scowl finally left my mouth and I was able to get a smile on the dial again.Managed 21 bass and the one yella,so a lousy day turned around at the last minute. Dino

Not my son a mate who likes to have a fish with a cranky old baxstard on rare occasions. Luke = Basshunter

Thats why I laugh sometimes when someone says they got a fifty, when blind freddy can see that the head and body just does not prove this.

Its been that long that Luke thought he had forgot how to catch fish.Well it didnt take him to long to bring back a few memories. We trolled up a few on flikashads to start with followed by quite a few on bait, before we headed for the edges to do some spinnerbaiting, casting and trolling.There was some big yellas around along with plenty of good bass, Luke managed an over 50cm model, we got pics of it on the mat but forgot to get one holding it. All up managed 41 bass and 6 yellas. Dino

He said he had a rough trip on the way up.He also has just had a center style keel thingy added to his cat, looks like an upsde down canoe stuck between the hull, because in choppy seas the big flat area in the middle was really hitting hard.He said he was very pleased with it. I asked how much did it cost, he just laughed and said you dont want to know.

As I mentioned once before, these bright golden colored ones come from a group of 140,000 we put in 3 years a go, some of which are starting to hit the 50cm size.

I said to myself I think I'll troll the shallows with some flickashads and myself said OK. I hadnt gone 50 mt when I got a double hookup, surprise. Then while I was taking a pic I looked at the sounder and there was another surprise, fish all over the place, so stopped and had a quick baitfish. Then off down the dam further to try the edges, managed a few more along with yellas casting and trolling spinnerbaits.All up 47 bass and 3 yellas. Dino

HeCalled in to see mummy for morning tea and we got an esky full of fish and mum got a bag of nice prawns for mothers day.

Got my mobile back, just have to get a new glass face for it.

I am trying to talk him into trying plastics, but he uses bait only.

My little boy took his 44ft cat up to the sunny coast, he takes it up there each year for 3 months and goes up whenever he can. Here is some of the catches, hope I can get some of them. Dino

Cant see the lilies at the moment as the dam is full, had a few casts to the edges for nil results.

Slipped up to Baroon for a change of scenery this morning. I was up that way yesterday having lunch at Ricks Garage Palmwoods and I will be up that way again tomorrow as I put my mobile on the rear bumper and fogot to take it off, thank goodness someone handed it in to the police station at Maleny. On the fishing side, I had to hide in amongst the fog for the first couple of hours and was lucky enough to hide where the fish were. By the time the fog cleared after 9am I was already on half a ton. I moved off to a couple more locations, some were OK and some the fish got spooked when I put a bait down.Along with 94 bass was 3 extra large eel tail catfish.Most bass were on shrimp with a couple caught trolling as well.I was surprised to get 3 undersize bass as the rest were between 40 and 48cm, couldnt crack the 50cm this time.I now have some very sore fingers as these bass have muscles in their shite. Yes I did put my thumb in the right hole. Left when I run out of shrimp. Dino

Its on the op side of the river to the town near the south wall, it goes under with big tides.

I used to catch jew off the south wall, best was 53lb caught on a king prawn. What we did most of the time was to throw a heap of bread in the water and jag a live mullet and use it for bait.I wasa pastry cook in Ballina in my younger days and spent most arvos fishing.There is usually some good luderick off the porpoise wall also.Its a nice place, my only complaint is the river runs to fast. Dino

I try to keep it short and sweet with a bit of info for others, I am a one finger typer. To each their own lets not try and covert people to be academics.

I purchased 2 of the 1000 reels for jigging bass as I didnt need much line on them. I can say they are doing the job just fine, they were on special for 25 dollars each, it was a no lose situation. Dino