Big B and Big W

[MJ-Apache]

Hi

I fished Wivenhoe Dam yesterday as part of a volunteer for a University of Queensland research project. Was an absolute cracker day on the water - sunny and not a breath of wind all day.

We ended up with 5 bass, most around 30-40cm, but i managed one beauty (and a PB) at 53cm and 2.4kg. All were caught trolling and away from the main schools. We peppered some very large schools with everything but none were interested in biting. Also got hammared by some mammoth catfsih (up to 5kg), which got the heart racing on 6lb string.

Cheers
Mitch

[barra_mauler001]

Sounds good mate, Gotta love big fish on light line!

Just curious what lure/lures were yas using?

cheers barra

[MJ-Apache]

Were using a range of deep diving lures on the troll - blitz baga's, SMAK's boomerangs etc. Fish were hanging around 5-10m

[leelee]

Nice work there.

Top fish.

Cheers

Lee

[Jeremy87]

Just a follow up on Mitchs original report, the uni headed out again this weekend and after 4 previous trips we finally located where the main schools were. The action was hot with lots of 50cm fork length fish coming on board. The highlight was on sunday morning after finding a school of big fish we had a triple hook up with Jens fish going 50 fork mine going 51 and Mitchs going 51 but slightly heavier.

[Jeremy87]

no comments hey. I'll chuck a few more pics up

[Pete62]

Cracking fish guys n girls, so this is a research project? Nice work if u can get it.

They are all very fat fish, nice sounder shot too.

Cheers, Pete.

[Jeremy87]

The water is actually 23 metres deep with bass down to 15. the poor old sounder couldn't decide where the bottom was. Yep thats the fun part of research, some poor bugger now has to disect the things (probably Jen) for age and dietry analysis

[Jungle Jim]

Well done guys. Cracker fish there.
Nice pics too Jeremy..

Bloody Uni students get everything “research” like that and half price bus tickets. ;D

Where do i sign up to do a Bachelor of Catching Dam Bass - B.cdb

Seriously though good job team.

Jim

[MJ-Apache]

Yeah it was a cracking session. It doesn't get much better than a triple hook up on 50+ FL bass. Thanks for the tips and advice Jeremy, was good fun fishing with you. Felt a bit sorry for Jen in the end - having to process all those bass.

Cheers
Mitch

[bayfisher]

Great pics and some nice bass there, sounds like it was a corker of session, With the weather the was it has been over the last couple of months it always good to have a few options up your sleeve to get that fishing fix ;D .

Cheers Chris

[bayfisher]

no comments hey. I'll chuck a few more pics up

It seems every one has spotties on there mind at the moment and unless you have a report about catching them in the bay your not going to too many replies... ;D ;D ;D ..

Cheers Chris

[Jeremy87]

It seems every one has spotties on there mind at the moment and unless you have a report about catching them in the bay your not going to too many replies... ;D ;D ;D ..

Cheers Chris

Bl##dy speciesists. Bass and spotties are very different fish but they're both heaps of fun to catch.

Mitch
Do you reakon Jen wanted to do the opposite of you and swap onto the boat not getting any::) . Hows the mission for wahoo going. Did you score any on that long line? Next couple of weeks is going to be all about marlin for me so if i pick any up i'll let you know.