Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Brissie river thumper 51 cm Bass Boxing Day 2011












51 cm of fat Brissie river bass








My first trip to Heart Attack Hill (Shines Rd) didn't dissappoint producing my best session on the Aussie Bass to date. A 300 km round trip paid off with me catching my first 50+cm Bass a fat 51 cm fish that smashed my spinnerbait pulling drag with ease despite my drag being near locked up. I landed 5 other fish averageing 42-45 cm and dropped a thumper estimated 45 cm golden perch yakside sure I had him beat - Damn!!

A few fish over the last month - December 2011

A local golden lake bass my first on a spinnerbait







A 38cm South Pine bass on surface fly

The one eyed bass that had no problems finding my Bearded Burbler fly

The South Pine

The Bearded Burbler fly - a foam rubber legged popper with a rabbit fur zonker belly strip

A 31 cm bass on one of my homemade lures

The bass with a tag that hadn't grown at all in 9 months

A break for morning tea


A Vampire eating bass

A solid 35cm bass on fly

Gobbled down like a fat kid on cake

The 35 cm bass on a bucktailBass Vampire fly

The bucktail Vampire fly

Monday, December 5, 2011

My first cod on fly November 19th,2011

 The very top pool with its heavily shaded right hand bank

 The portage up into the 2nd pool that has some really good overhanging trees for an afternoon fish

 The upper pools have alot of potential real early or real late in the day

 The log angling into the water is where the cod took the fly on the 2nd cast after the first was lightly boofed without inhaling it.
 67 cm's of beautiful Mary River Cod caught on a self tied foam rubber legged popper fly. The gear used was a TFO (Temple Fork Outfitters) BVK #8 weight using a cheap WF #8 Floating line bought in Thailand for $25 . The leader was a twisted butt 15kg Penn 10x twisted for 1.2m then single strand for 40 cm attached to this was 50 cm of Maxima 7kg. This set up was tied specifically for use with surface popper stle flies from the yak.

 The rubber legged popper fly in the back of his tongue
 The magnificent Mary River Cod about to be released near his snag


 The tip of a lay down log the bass came out of to hit the popper fly
 A healthy little bass
 The self tied foam rubber legged (sili legs) popper fly with a polar fibre tail
 This was one of many shrimp that the above bass coughed up over my shirt when brought over the side of the yak
 A platypus was feeding happily in this first stretch just keeping far enough away to not allow a worthwhile photo
The bottom pool that serves as the entry to the waterway