Wivenhoe day of pb's

[Jeremy87]

Not a bad land based sesh 14 fish from 6 till 12 with many more dropped, 5 bass going better thean 50. Everyone cracked a pb today. Matt with a 52cm (4cm improvement) fork length bass, Dad with another 52cm (2.5cm) , Jake with a 47 (1cm), I managed a 52cm (3cm) yellow. Fish came from the steep rocky banks mostly on jackells.

[snagking]

They all look lovely!

Must've been a good ride home, with everyone with a pb :D

[Nic]

Top fish, well done! Which Jackalls did you use? Were you troubled by the catties? I hear they can be a problem in summer.

[Jeremy87]

Stopped at fernvale for a celebratory feed (good pies). Couldn't get the smiles off everyones faces. Poor Jake is the only one to not have cracked a 50 now, but he can wait. Dads been waiting 30 years for a 50 (spent most of his time chasing wildies) and for him to get one in style with a 52 was the highlight of the day.

[OverNover]

Awesome day out Jeremy, some cracker fish. Me and my Mate were only talking today about givin big W a run, we've never fished it before, done Sommerset many times but the whole electric only thing worry's me a bit, buggered if the wind gets up, even runnin 2 x 36lb motors!!! Gonna give a new spot a go down here on the Goldy on Saturday, my father-in-law has just moved out the hinterland and a certain creek runs right through the property and looks very Bassy, as an added bonus the place came with a pair of canoes!!!!! Sounds too good to be true, will let you know how I go, Thanx again for the tips, Cheers, Jamie.

;D

[Jeremy87]

Top fish, well done! Which Jackalls did you use? Were you troubled by the catties? I hear they can be a problem in summer.

Matt was fishing a green and black striped tn/50 (old lake police model) and getting 3 times more hits than anyone else but was having really lousy luck keeping the hooks in, he easily lost 10 fish mid fight. I was fishing a regular tn/60 green and gold, dad a pale green tn/60 Jake persisted with a half ounce spinnerbait for most of the day. Not really sure how fussy they are on colour but definately showed a preference to size. Surprisingly not a single cattie graced us with its presence (luckily for them) today. If you recall I have recently been out on wivenhoe chasing bass with the uni and we were getting more catties than bass by an order of magnitude at one stage. I'm hoping all the catties have moved onto the grassy flats and have p!ssed off from the bass schools good and proper.

[rc@hinze]

Well done Jeremy, that is a top session and congrates to all on the PB,s. Have never been to Wivenhoe but hearing of all these 50+cm bass from there certainly makes a trip up from the coast a good idea. Pardon my ignorance, but is Wivenhoe an electric only dam like Hinze?

[Jeremy87]

Well done Jeremy, that is a top session and congrates to all on the PB,s. Have never been to Wivenhoe but hearing of all these 50+cm bass from there certainly makes a trip up from the coast a good idea. Pardon my ignorance, but is Wivenhoe an electric only dam like Hinze?

That it is, i'm setting my canoe up as we speak to make it more impoundment fishing friendly (wacking a colour sounder on it). Wivenhoe is big and there is alot of water between fish if you don't know what your looking for. It took me a few days of fishing from a boat to actually suss these spots out where i'm fishing land based.

[Jeremy87]

Awesome day out Jeremy, some cracker fish. Me and my Mate were only talking today about givin big W a run, we've never fished it before, done Sommerset many times but the whole electric only thing worry's me a bit, buggered if the wind gets up, even runnin 2 x 36lb motors!!! Gonna give a new spot a go down here on the Goldy on Saturday, my father-in-law has just moved out the hinterland and a certain creek runs right through the property and looks very Bassy, as an added bonus the place came with a pair of canoes!!!!! Sounds too good to be true, will let you know how I go, Thanx again for the tips, Cheers, Jamie.

;D

Yeh give it go, just wait until a day with a good forecast though as you can get some serious waves push up that dam. A good sounder is vital for this dam as most of the fish are down deep. Trolling a deep deep diver in 15 or so metres of water is a good starting point to find schools and avoiding catties. Once you've found a patch crack out the jackells and jigs and have a crack. The creek situation sounds awsome, looking forward to seeing some photo's of you with some big bass.

[bdowdy]

AWESOME BASS congrats to all on the pbs

[Jungle Jim]

Top quailty fish mate well done to everyone.

Friday's a no go for me.....seems my boss thought it was a little strange i could predict when i was going to get food poisoning ......


Jim

[Jeremy87]

Top quailty fish mate well done to everyone.

Friday's a no go for me.....seems my boss thought it was a little strange i could predict when i was going to get food poisoning ......


Jim

No worries, we will head up there though. Heres the link to the seller i was talking about last night
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[MJ-Apache]

Nice work Jeremy. Looks like the bass are still pushed up against that bank. I might have to talk a couple of mates into a landbased session up that way. Did you have much of a problem with loosing lures, and did you try the metal slugs again?
Cheers
Mitch

[NAGG]

Wow ..... what a great session Jeremy - specially landbased ...... i'd celebrate too

Well done

Chris

[Fishbait]

Very nice fish indeed - you fishing lures and retrieving that way or doing some dead bait as well? Cheers, Darren.

[BR65]

Good fishin mate, great yella as well!
cheers
brian

[Jeremy87]

Nice work Jeremy. Looks like the bass are still pushed up against that bank. I might have to talk a couple of mates into a landbased session up that way. Did you have much of a problem with loosing lures, and did you try the metal slugs again?
Cheers
Mitch

Went back out again today, completely different bite. Lots of birds feeding way out in the middle, I'd say the bass wouldn't have been too far away from them. We only managed 2 around the 48 mark and a few catties. We gave the slugs a go first up but they seem too difficult to control 70 metres out and 10 metres down (too much water pressure on the line). I wish the schools were in the boating zone, I've put a sounder on the canoe so come winter hopefully they'll move and i can have another go at jigging them. Snagged a few jackells but "accidently" fell in and managed to retrieve them.

[Jeremy87]

Very nice fish indeed - you fishing lures and retrieving that way or doing some dead bait as well? Cheers, Darren.

All lures, all you'd catch with bait is spangles and cat fish. The fish are sitting wide and in mid water so the only way to effectively targeting them is with a retrieved sinking lure at the correct depth.

[Jeremy87]

Yeh Chris would have celebrated with a beer but seemed a little to early in the day to start up.

Brian, the yella was text book. It was sitting right in the rock and hit me at my feet on the way up. I had a feeling it wasn't a bass as it didn't seem to be fighting as hard for its weight.