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wesfish, we caught the prawns from NPD the night before back in the days where the yabbies were plenty, and you see greedy people walking away with bucket loads!! Anyways, the bigger bass were holding right at the little catchment right next to the gate, the only way to access it is to cross the river which was pretty scary.

You're not meant to be fishing there, but the rangers dont really give a damn. Well they didnt in my case, they even came up to us and started conversations.

anyways, no point talking about it as your not meant to be fishing there, just wanted to make a point that there should be plenty of 60cm+ models out there at bigW

wesfish wrote:

i do recall many many years ago like maybe 15-18 years ago there was a guy with a massive bass caught using worms and a clear bubble float that from memory was well over the 70cm mark and was caught out near lowood in the brisbane river , it was in the QT news paper, Maybe there is a way of getting this article from the QT paper office , But i do remember it being somewhere between 5-8kgs an absolute horse that may have been one of the original wild river bass , Can any one remember this article if you are from ipswich?

I'm not surprised, around 10 years ago, when they let the flootgates open at wivenhoe, many big bass escaped. When i say big, i mean big. We caught 2 60cm+ models. One of them were 65.5cm from memory and the other was just over 61cm. Average bass caught in the same area would have been 50cm.

All were caught on live prawns, not far from the flootgates.