Wild Tweed Bass

[Jewhunter]

G'day all.

Hit the fresh water side of the Tweed River this morning for a final session before Outdoordan flew back to Sydney this arvo.

Things were looking great y/day until some big storms & heavy rain through the night made the river rise & turned it to coffee.

Our surface session was canned & we decided to fish the good old spin blades with grubs for a bit of flash in the dirty water.

Turned out to be an o.k morning. Landed 5 wild bass up to 40cm with Dan getting his 1st Tweed wild bass & a nice one at 39cm's.

Our casting was out for a while. It's a real experience casting heavy o'heads for barra & then taking the light plastic outfits for a ride when you get back. We got there in the end though.

It didn't scratch my barra itch but at least we didn't lose any of these fish!

Hope you enjoy the pics.

Cheers,

Grant.

[Guest]

Good fish boys dan the man with hair yeh yeh

Cheers Stewy

[Smitty]

Nice litte warm down session there fellas...congrates.

Smitty...

[Hodgey]

Good stuff fellas A nice Tweed bass for your first, Dan. A welcome change to the recent barra session, Grant. That itch won't go away though ... so lets go later this year

Skip

[tide'n'knots]

nice little session there boys- some healthy wild bass.

not quite barra but good fun anyway!

pete.

[brainfishingmad]

the funny thing about this whole thred is that you could probley eat those ones you catch

unlike the good old napean river, there's no way i could bring my self to eat one catch and release only

awesome picks mate.

[paul.kenny]

Well done lads...there are some nice wild river bass there. I understand the challenge of moving immediately from Barra to Bass gear, as I experienced the same challange in January when I went from Monduran Barra to Lake St Clair Bass. Fortunately I didn't loose any gear but did experience a number of birdnests trying to cast jitterbugs on my bass baitcasting gears

[slinkymalinky]

Nice fish boys. Glad the boat survived the launch & retrieve into the river above the weir. Nice photos of some nice fish. They're sort of about the same colour on top... just a wee bit smaller

Cheers, Slinky

[arpie]

Nice looking bass there, Grant & Dan! Congrats - your 39cm would have 'gone', Dan!!

Looking forward to getting into a few more bass down here, myself!

CHeers

Roberta

[johnny doi]

some nice wild river bass there grant & dan.well done.bet the gear used certainly felt alot lighter than the impoundment barra gear.

cheers johnny.

[jewgaffer]

Awesome size bass Grant and Dan, the smiles tell it all

Cheers

jewgaffer

[Jewhunter]

Thanks for the replies all.

It was a pleasing little session considering how quickly the water quality changed after the heavy rains the night before.

We were really looking forward to a popper session but there was no chance in those conditions.

I'm sure that section of the river will hold some really big wild bass at times. That's only the 2nd time I've fished it for a total of 13 bass with 3 over 40cms & only 3 under 35cms. So the average size is nice.

They don't go as hard as the Dam bass though.

Cheers,

Grant.

[Daniel Frost]

Well done mate , it's always good to get into the wild ones , congrats mate , you must be lovin the new boat sounder up the front and everything , nice!

Bubba