Another Bass Story

[Sir Bucket]

Hello Raiders

First of all I am the father of 'bucket'. Stephen is proving his usual lazy self and hasnt got the energy to write this report so he insisted that I join up , so this is my first foray into writing for the forum. Please be gentle.

Decided to test the boat out after a service so took a run up the Nepean on Wed arvo before we head off to Swansea. Stephen and I threw lures all over the place just past the narrows and couldnt even get the mozzies to bite. Headed for the top, trying all our usual spots on the way. Still no go, so started working our way back. About 5:30 Steve and I started catching bass, unfortunately for a while there it was turning into a competition as to could land the smallest fish. Bass never fail to amaze me, pound for pound they are the bravest fish. How can such a small fish take on some of the large ugly lures that we throw at them. Steve anounced that he had won the competion for the smallest bass, picture below, and i must agree that catching one smaller than his would be an embarrasment to both of us.

The boat does have a reputation to uphold, so we swithed tactics and swapped from targetting the small ones to targetting their parents. The action started and I was leadin the way with a fine healthy 24 cm specimen and Steve was lagging seriously behind. I thought he had gone to sleep until he started calling for the gaff. He is known to exagerate a little so I ignored him. The bend in the rod did indicate that some thing a little more robust than my fish was molesting his lure. See picture below. 45cm and built like a brick. A good time to go home. I was beaten at both ends of the scale.

Roll on Swansea !!

Les.

[tiger_shark]

Good report les...

Good to see a bit of father son rivalry going on... That little one looks good for a fish tank... I dont know, is there a size limit on them??

I'm gonna have to get the boat down to the nepean to chase some bass...i've never fished any fresh water rivers before, even though the nepean is a bout a 15 minute drive away. How do you think a 26 footer would go down the upper parts of the river??? Would it be to big??

[johnno]

to fishraider

44cm is a good fish

good report

[PJ Garn]

G'Day Sir

Firstly

Seems like you enjoyed your arvo and it turned out better than expected with that 45cm beauty!!! He'd have to be happy with that!!! I really wished I could get up into the gorge but my boat is out of action and presently full of leaves... a little project is on the books to turn it into a Bass Boat!!!

I really enjoyed your report... well laid out with pics to help tell it!!! Sometime reports can be alittle boring when they are just text!!!

Keep up the top work!!!

Cheers

PJ Garn

[marlin1962]

to the site ''sir bucket''

great post and some good pics as well.

well done on the 45cm monster

thats a nice size bass.

well done.

cheers marty.

[Guest mrs rzep]

Well done on getting up there and giving it a go.

45cm's is a very respectable sized bass.

I dont know, is there a size limit on them??

The only size limit on bass is that you can only keep 1 bass over 35cm's.

[greenfish]

That's a good first report,well done on catching a few nice bass.

looks like a very nice spot to fish too.

cheers,

greenfish