bassboy888

well done stan. bass season has opened now, start going after the bronze battlers on fly. i can guarantee you will be up for some fun

They name the bigger ones b-pivot, nice lure but trebles will need changing for bream and whiting, too heavy for them.

Nicely done Pete! Nothing beats running into a school of salmon with your light line aboard, even better that you got to do it with your wife.

Blades are a great Bass lure in saying that mulloway man is correct in saying they are more for schooling fish. I have used them to great success in the dams, but for where your fishing I would say from the 1st september-late october most bass will be caught subsurface on small fat hardbodies you would use for bream, spinnerbaits and plastics, as the water warms and cicadas start humming stick baits, poppers and cicada imitations are the best (read most entertaining) way to catch bass. if you are on the nepean though and do sound up some bass in a school by all means drop a blade down and hop/slow roll/ burn and sink it back and i am sure you will get some attention.

Really Grant, You're REALLY going to rub it in haha. Have fun fellas, expecting some big fish..... If you dont get em you arent allowed back either

Well done on the bream and flatties. Definitely harder work during the winter, even a few on HB though! Good effort in the colder water!

Stinger hooks work a treat dont they! even on the smaller lures they increase your catch rate. just be wary of using them in heavily snagged areas, as you will probably loose alot of gear

Don't forget to add yellow belly, barramundi and sooty grunter! The new Berkeley power blades are probably one to keep an eye out for as well. They were the winning lure for this years BETS grand final I'm fairly sure. They look the goods!

well done nat, would have been some good fun hooking up to those. both great pound for pound fighters.

Not too sure Brendon, probably not all that much/ if anything they will probably just need to be found. But with your boat and using your sounders all should be good when it comes to finding them. Im sure we would have faired better if we had the technology and could run and gun places.

Haha thanks pmak but honestly I wouldn't be able to tell you the depth we were fishing at, it's all very basic fishing in my mates punt. Just the punt and an electric motor pushes us around. Just by looking at the land we were fishing deeper holes with rock walls or moored boats with any deviations in the current.

Solid trevally mate! would have truly been an epic fight on what i would call stupid string, especially for that.

Thanks for the replies guys, thought i would try something new with my camera, now i cant wait for the summer and get in the water with some bass! They were all fat EP but weren't full of roe, they looked as if they were gorging them selves after the breeding, fat and full of energy!

good luck, the nepean is a great place to start back up, and in 24days untill the season opens you picked a great time to get the yak

Gday Raiders, Well its been a long time coming but I have finally hit the water again back here at home and let me say I have hit the ground running! Todays session consisted of targeting holes and rockwalls along the woronora in search of bream, flatties and if we were to be lucky some EP. it didnt take long for the first hits to start occurring and both our first hook ups resulted in a bust of and an almost pantsed plastic. We kept persisting and were rewarded with some small but entertaining flatties on plasitc. Not long after this i was working my plastic nearly under the boat when a monster of a fish picked up my zman and started heading back to her rocky lair, the new reel was singing as its new partner in crime was buckled over. Thinking I had hooked an almighty bream until a large/ deep silver side and bucket mouth of an EP appeared, not panicking i slowly worker safely into the net. She measured 39.5cm and weighed well over a kilo smashing my previous PB in weight and just inching it out on length. The water went quiet for a while and if it wasnt for small flatties and the dying winds we probably would have fished alot quicker, returing to where i picked up the previous EP I hooked a flatty which took a magnificent first run then death rolled in my line to turn it self into a stunned mullet floating up to the surface. shortly after and on our way home, the last ditch effort paid off with another fat EP coming boatside measuring 36cm and putting up just as good of an account. other than that an easy day on the water with not a single other angler spotted...... the winter joys. Cheers, Stu

Nice work TC and great info on the lures. I had a look at the ones you are using and they are almost identical to the Keitech plastics (more expensive but available locally) have you tried these two alongside each other? still shocked that the bigger plastics get lots of bream!

Haha, I saw that posted by a group on facebook under "go home seabreeze, you're drunk". made me laugh a little, i just thought they would have fixed it by now!

Well done on the Wonny mate, Its one of my favourite places around the georges. You are right about the big fish but as you said shhhhhh its a secret

Well done! Such a great achievement for any lure angler. Now you have your first I'm sure many will follow

Have a look at the soon to be or already released Haines signature 5 meter version of the 485sf. Looks like an amazing boat

Cheers grant! I wouldn't call it international man of Fishraider every overseas location I go I seem to catch Redfin haha. I am also looking forward to participate in the local meeting down at the watering hole. You're right pmak it very much felt like the harbour just a lot older! The choice to pack the squidgies was very last minute too as I thought I would be targeting trout! I can imagine there is not much fishing going on or drinking of cold ales! The "educational" tour has already been booked and allowed. Thankfully it's on our tour we are already doing though so really permission is not needed. Spring bass is a must! Might even teach you the jerkbait technique if you're lucky

Thanks for all the replies raiders! It's just over halfway until I am home. And maybe some more fishing to come Cheers luc! The retrieve with the wriggler was a slow roll in the arvo but in the morning session just the double hop did the trick. And the fish was a double or single hop if it hit the bottom! Hey Donna, I have spent a couple of days in London but most of my time has been travelling through Sweden spa ding a large amount of time in laholm where I tried my hand at salmon fishing seeing 3, 8kg fish jump. Tonight I am leaving to Dublin an doing a tour around Ireland then off to Paris! Enjoy Finland and sneak the rods! Lots of squidgies and zmans. Jig heads of all weights

Thanks for the picture edit hodgey! No sampling on the plate but many of the people walking past were shocked I was throwing them back because of how good they are to eat! So they do like them here and the waters of Stockholm are very clean for a big city. You are right though a long way from our natives and even further to just get Redfin.

Sorry about the pictures! Bit all over the place, uploading from the iPhone so will have to fix them when I get home.