sonocam
26-08-2006, 06:33 PM
Wednesday:
My father and I ventured down to Somerset dam to break our bass drought. Perfect conditions, not even a breath of wind. Got on the water about 7:45am and Cam's good mate Gavin got us onto a patch of fish at Queen street and that's where I hooked onto a beaut yellow belly on a slider baby bass. A few minutes later my father hooked onto a nice sized bass, THE DROUGHT BREAKER!, caught on a smoke yellow slider and then another yellow belly was brought to the boat by my slider, at that stage I said " I have to change this lure!" and immediately I switched to a nills master ice jig and it paid off, my first bass but unfortunately my dad stuffed up the photo but it is one of the three in the live well. We travelled towards the spit and found a school of bass; many bass were caught but none of any size. All in all a good day with six fish caught.
Tuesday:
Got on water about 8:15am and headed to Queen Street but nothing was there. We headed to the spit once again and there were the bass, just like the week before. I hooked on to the first fish on a bait caster and the fish almost ripped the rod out of my hands and then the hooks came out and then I discovered that the drag was cranked up to full, no wonder! We then started catching fish, some every few castes and once two in two casts caught by me and my father unfortunately only caught one. Five fish all up and all caught on ice jigs.
Great fishing all round and finally our bass drought is broken!
Regards Kyle
My father and I ventured down to Somerset dam to break our bass drought. Perfect conditions, not even a breath of wind. Got on the water about 7:45am and Cam's good mate Gavin got us onto a patch of fish at Queen street and that's where I hooked onto a beaut yellow belly on a slider baby bass. A few minutes later my father hooked onto a nice sized bass, THE DROUGHT BREAKER!, caught on a smoke yellow slider and then another yellow belly was brought to the boat by my slider, at that stage I said " I have to change this lure!" and immediately I switched to a nills master ice jig and it paid off, my first bass but unfortunately my dad stuffed up the photo but it is one of the three in the live well. We travelled towards the spit and found a school of bass; many bass were caught but none of any size. All in all a good day with six fish caught.
Tuesday:
Got on water about 8:15am and headed to Queen Street but nothing was there. We headed to the spit once again and there were the bass, just like the week before. I hooked on to the first fish on a bait caster and the fish almost ripped the rod out of my hands and then the hooks came out and then I discovered that the drag was cranked up to full, no wonder! We then started catching fish, some every few castes and once two in two casts caught by me and my father unfortunately only caught one. Five fish all up and all caught on ice jigs.
Great fishing all round and finally our bass drought is broken!
Regards Kyle