Pejar Bass Saturday

[jaybez]

Went fishing with two mates, one from Canberra, specifically to target Aussie Bass for a first for the Canberra mate. Not a particularly early start, fishing from about 8am. About and hour in, he gets a hit and a big run from a fish on his chatterbait. It snagged him, but a quick scramble along the rocks on the wall, and he managed to get him in. The fish went a very chunky 50cm long. 

 

No hits thereafter, though did try getting a large 45+ cm rainbow trout out of the spillway from above, but spooked it with my chatterbait and then it wouldn't take the small soft plastic I threw down afterwards. 

Edited February 18 by jaybez

[bessell1955]

That is a great Bass. 

[Green Hornet]

That’s a pearler of a bass.  
Great to see Pejar bounce back so well after being almost empty and nothing but a mud puddle a couple of droughts ago.

[kantong]

what a great fish mate, congrats on landing that!

[big Neil]

Solid specimen jaybez. Bet your mate was stoked with that.   bn

[jaybez]

On 2/19/2024 at 8:00 AM, bessell1955 said:

That is a great Bass. 

Thanks bessell, it was a great fight, too.

On 2/19/2024 at 8:34 AM, Green Hornet said:

That’s a pearler of a bass.  
Great to see Pejar bounce back so well after being almost empty and nothing but a mud puddle a couple of droughts ago.

Thanks Pete, it is. I am too young to recall it being empty, but it is definitely beginning to fire! The other mate said when we were there on Saturday that you can at least expect a bass to bite every time you are out there targeting them.

 

On 2/19/2024 at 1:52 PM, kantong said:

what a great fish mate, congrats on landing that!

Thanks Kantong

2 hours ago, big Neil said:

Solid specimen jaybez. Bet your mate was stoked with that.   bn

Cheers bn, he was. The smile on his face was quite the sight.