GordoRetired

Love Sushimi 🙂 Well done

Had a similar experience at the Peak one time, anchored up fishing for Snapper and spot a school of Dollies swimming under the boat. Floated down cut pillies and hooked a few, all small so went back.

Well done Bob, another good days catching the target species. Shame about the keys, bet he will be more careful next time out. 🙂

Sounds like another good day on the water putting the new boat through it's paces. And a good feed to take home 👍

OK, I just got an email from an address I do not recognise asking me to click a link to a very strange URL. Being a retired IT security specialist I automatically delete anything like that. Maybe if you want people to confirm their emails you should send a link to a page on the Fishraider forum, ie a site we trust, which we can then use to verify emails.

That looks like a great day out. Glad my burley idea helped. 🙂

Another good day on the Kings Bob. You never seem to fail. 🙂

That is pretty countryside and fish as a bonus.

That's what I call a good day out fishing. Great result. Bit surprised that you did not keep the Marlin, smaller ones like that make great eating. 🙂

That's a good haul of fish. Well done. 👍 Questions for you. If the 'big fish' straightened the hooks could it be an issue with having too much drag set for the size of the hook? I would think that it would require a lot of pulling power to straighten even a 4/0 hook.

Happy Wife, Happy Life. 🙂

Sad that there are selfish people out there with no respect for others who are trying to enjoy the ocean. 😞

Still caught a fair few and a day out with mates so it was still a good day 🙂

Good job

Great fish and those Jewiers are sooo good on the plate.

Another great day helping Raiders get onto quality fish. Well done Bob. 👍

You really do deserve the title "Bass Master" Thats a fantastic effort. Thank you for letting me share it with you.

Back in the early 90's I caught a bunch of slimies off a wharf. Got home and fried a couple up in butter, like we used to in the UK. Very tasty, even if my housemates, a couple of Aussies, were horrified when I told them I had eaten them as they reckoned that they were only good as cat food.... 😂

Yet another good day on the Bass for you and your crew. Well done. You must have caught hundreds, if not into the thousands, of Bass this season.

Wish I had bought a couple home myself now 🙂 Spoke to my wife on the way home and told her how many fish we had caught. When I asked what was for dinner she said Fish.... Not realising that we put most of them back 😂

Bob will have to reply to that, all I know was that it was on the Hawkesbury river 🙂

It was an exceptional day. Averaged a fish every 3 minutes over 3 hours. 🙂

After reading a number of reports from Pickles late last year about the great sessions he had been having catching and releasing Bass up near where he lives I was keen to give it a try myself. I have only ever chased Bass once and that time I did not catch a thing, which I commented on one of the write-ups. This quickly elicited a response from Bob, being the generous and warm human being that he is, ‘When are you coming out to go for a fish?’ Now trust me when I say, when you get an invite to go and fish with Bob you would be a fool to refuse it. He has such an in-depth knowledge of pretty much all things fishing and lots of local knowledge. After a quick chat a plan was made to get out in the New Year. Finally the time came round and we agreed that we would meet at his place at 5.00am today….. 5.00am! ! ! ! ! I can’t remember the last time I was up that early, let alone up early enough to be over an hours drive from home by 5.00am. Last night I set the alarm for 3.30am and hit the sack around 9.30pm for a whole 6 hours of sleep. Now of course I was excited about the trip today so I really did not manage the 6 hours that I had planned, I kept waking myself up dreaming that the alarm had gone off and I had aver slept. Still, this was for a day out with the Bass Master so it’s bound to be worth it. Headed away from home at 4.00am and after a Maccas drive through breakfast and coffee met up with Bob and MD just after 5.00, hooked up the boat and drove to the ramp. Easy launch and driving away from the ramp around 6.00am. Little did I know that we were about to experience some of the best fishing ever. As we drove away from the ramp there was a light mist across the water and the sun slowly rising through the mist, it gave quite an eerie feel to the scene. A couple of hundred meters from the ramp the lures went into the water and it was on for young and old. Within minutes the first fish hooked up, quickly followed by the second, then the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth and so on. Over the next hour we boated around 30 Bass, ranging in size from ‘How on earth did a fish that small hit a lure that big’ through to fish up towards the 40cm mark. The great thing about Bass is that when you are hooking them on light gear, 6lb line, they put up a great fight for their size, even the small ones seem to go hard. Interestingly the area we fished was probably no more than a couple of hundred meters of river. While fishing we got numerous double hook up’s and even a few times when all 3 of us were on fish at the same time. Despite that somehow we managed to not get tangled around each other and actually got the fish to the boat. The only real tangle we got into, OK the only real tangle that I got into was as we passed another boat and I managed to hook one of their lines. They were very good, we backed up, they undid the tangle and then were good enough to throw my lure back in right on top of a fish. On the 3rd turn of the handle while bringing the lure back in I hooked up. 😊 The Bass seem to be quite aggressive fish, not shy of the boat as evidenced by some of our strikes coming mere meters from the boat just as we were about to lift the lure out of the water. After the first hour the strike rate slowed slightly but we were still seeing a fish every few minutes, I think the second hour accounted for around 20 fish. Then as we went into the 3rd hour it slowed some more, however the size of the fish seemed to increase and we got some of the better specimens up towards the 40cm mark. By 9.00am, after 3 hours on the water, it was time to call it a day so lures in and we took off for the long drive back to the ramp which must have taken us all of 2 – 2 1/2 minutes of driving. Loaded the boat and drove back to Bob's for a quick wash down. We were then treated a wonderful display of dog retrieving as Bob put his Lab through her paces, swimming across his dam to retrieve his doggy lures. Sitting obediently to return them to Bob's hand, then sitting to heel waiting for the next throw. Probably the best trained dog that I have ever seen. It was a lot of fun. Overall it was a Fantastic day, Bob kept count of the Bass and the final tally was 62 fish hooked and boated along with probably the same again in hits that either did not hook up or spat the hooks before we got them in. MD kept a couple to cook up, I’ll be interest to know how he goes with those, I am sure he will comment below to let us know, the rest were all sent back to fight another day. Early in this report I referred to Bob as the Bass Master, a title he certainly deserves after today’s brilliant effort. Again, Thank you Bob for a fantastic day out on the water. I’ll look forward to doing it again soon. Bob and MD, if I have left out an interesting bit's please add them in the comments below.🙂 Tight lines all. Gordo B7.bmp

Lets hope that they are biting like that on Tuesday 🙂

Thanks Basil, recipe saved to book marks to give it a try.