Dinodadog

Had a real good morning up at Baroon, then the cold winds sent me home via the warm pie shop. First pic is a school of bass, second pic is a school of spanglies and the third pic is when crossing the dam scary what, it goes to 148ft in some places when full.
Anyway the fishing was great, but I had to keep putting food in my mouth to stop my teeth from chattering. Managed 53 bass with the most on shrimp as the fish were that cold they couldnt inhale the lures.
Dino

Had a real good morning up at Baroon, then the cold winds sent me home via the warm pie shop. First pic is a school of bass, second pic is a school of spanglies and the third pic is when crossing the dam scary what, it goes to 148ft in some places when full.
Anyway the fishing was great, but I had to keep putting food in my mouth to stop my teeth from chattering. Managed 53 bass with the most on shrimp as the fish were that cold they couldnt inhale the lures.
Dino

Been off fishing for the last 3 weeks, I caught my left ankle on the side of the boat when hopping out.
Anyway the bass were pleased to see me, started off trolling, then a bit of jigging and finally found a good school happy for a nice sized shrimp. Managed 46 bass most around the 40cm mark, it was just so good getting out there. Oh tried a bit of bankfishing on tuesday not even a single bass in 3 hours.
 

Been off fishing for the last 3 weeks, I caught my left ankle on the side of the boat when hopping out.
Anyway the bass were pleased to see me, started off trolling, then a bit of jigging and finally found a good school happy for a nice sized shrimp. Managed 46 bass most around the 40cm mark, it was just so good getting out there. Oh tried a bit of bankfishing on tuesday not even a single bass in 3 hours.
 

Been off fishing for the last 3 weeks, I caught my left ankle on the side of the boat when hopping out.
Anyway the bass were pleased to see me, started off trolling, then a bit of jigging and finally found a good school happy for a nice sized shrimp. Managed 46 bass most around the 40cm mark, it was just so good getting out there. Oh tried a bit of bankfishing on tuesday not even a single bass in 3 hours.
 

Been off fishing for the last 3 weeks, I caught my left ankle on the side of the boat when hopping out.
Anyway the bass were pleased to see me, started off trolling, then a bit of jigging and finally found a good school happy for a nice sized shrimp. Managed 46 bass most around the 40cm mark, it was just so good getting out there. Oh tried a bit of bankfishing on tuesday not even a single bass in 3 hours.
 

Good work Dino.

Well... Doesn't change the fact that it was a fantastic fish I guess...

Been off fishing for the last 3 weeks, I caught my left ankle on the side of the boat when hopping out.
Anyway the bass were pleased to see me, started off trolling, then a bit of jigging and finally found a good school happy for a nice sized shrimp. Managed 46 bass most around the 40cm mark, it was just so good getting out there. Oh tried a bit of bankfishing on tuesday not even a single bass in 3 hours.
 

that wasnt supposed to be there its an old pic

that wasnt supposed to be there its an old pic

that wasnt supposed to be there its an old pic

that wasnt supposed to be there its an old pic

A nice welcome back. Close to a pb too.

Good job. I have to reiterate what Jono said... Prime fish👍

That 1st bass is a tank! Awesome fish

I went to the western arm this morning and only got 5 shrimp out of my shrimp traps. Converted them into 5 bass. Spent a few hours trolling a ole elle lure around for nothing.
 Cheers Ray

Been off fishing for the last 3 weeks, I caught my left ankle on the side of the boat when hopping out.
Anyway the bass were pleased to see me, started off trolling, then a bit of jigging and finally found a good school happy for a nice sized shrimp. Managed 46 bass most around the 40cm mark, it was just so good getting out there. Oh tried a bit of bankfishing on tuesday not even a single bass in 3 hours.
 

Been off fishing for the last 3 weeks, I caught my left ankle on the side of the boat when hopping out.
Anyway the bass were pleased to see me, started off trolling, then a bit of jigging and finally found a good school happy for a nice sized shrimp. Managed 46 bass most around the 40cm mark, it was just so good getting out there. Oh tried a bit of bankfishing on tuesday not even a single bass in 3 hours.
 

Been off fishing for the last 3 weeks, I caught my left ankle on the side of the boat when hopping out.
Anyway the bass were pleased to see me, started off trolling, then a bit of jigging and finally found a good school happy for a nice sized shrimp. Managed 46 bass most around the 40cm mark, it was just so good getting out there. Oh tried a bit of bankfishing on tuesday not even a single bass in 3 hours.
 

Been off fishing for the last 3 weeks, I caught my left ankle on the side of the boat when hopping out.
Anyway the bass were pleased to see me, started off trolling, then a bit of jigging and finally found a good school happy for a nice sized shrimp. Managed 46 bass most around the 40cm mark, it was just so good getting out there. Oh tried a bit of bankfishing on tuesday not even a single bass in 3 hours.
 

Had a good day at the western arm today with Rick, Joy and their granddaughter Amelia after an iffy start. There was more wind than forecast and as we had some shrimp left from the last trip we headed into the trees on Ians island and tied up to one of our regular trees to escape the wind which dropped out to make it quite comfortable but a bit cool. The bass were hungry and we had boated 40 bass by 8am when we ran out of bait. We then did our pots for a meagre catch and headed upstream to above bass bay where we got into the bass again for a final tally of 80 bass and one tandan. Amelia was chuffed with a tally of 15 fish with the largest going 45cm. We ran out of bait around midday so we were happy with the day.

Long story. We have been missing quite a few pots from the western arm and a couple of weeks ago I was looking at another site and someone put up a post pulling one of my distinctive rectangular aluminium frame pots as well as some other distinctive round pots. I did nothing but another forum member recognised one of his pots and called him out plus reporting to fisheries and rangers. A. L got quite agro and claimed that they were his pots. Last week I got a pm telling me that some of my pots were in the eastern arm so today I went searching and found one of my pots and one of Neils with A.L s name and address on the floats. They were in only 2 feet of clear water and I could clearly see both of them. Neils name is burnt into the plastic end of the pot and mine still had a sticker with my name and address on the lead weight. There are at least another 12 pots missing so we will keep out eyes open.
After spending a few hours unsuccessfully looking around to see if I could finds any more pots I then had a bit of a fish ending up with 39 bass so a good day.
Hats off to one of the admins of the Hinze Dam fishing club site for his assistance. I even caught one of his tagged fish today.
Cheers Ray

Rick and I went to NPD today for a total of 11 bass between 20 and 36cm
 

most were on shrimp but some jigging