ewen maddock, some good fish

[bream"n"bass]

hey all. just been fishing at ewen maddock. it was a pretty good session as it was my first proper session at thins dam. we got there at about 7-7.30. i was using a cultiva popper in a walk the dog style and my mate was using a jackall tn 60. finally got a hit on the cultiva, missed it then got smashed again. hooked up on a good sized saratoga but about 2 seconds later it cleared the water and threw the lure back at my face. DISAPOINTED. next fish was a 51cm fat bass to my mate will on an auspin spinerbait on one of the points. good fish and fought hard. didn't catch anything for for about 1 and a half hours. then finally i got a 41cm bass on a slider slow rolled near the rockwall. good fight on 4lb fireline. i think it was a good day for our fist attempt.

thx for reading

[Murph77]

Sounds like a good session guys, well done

[Jeremy87]

whats the boat policy there these days? saratoga have a habit of doing that.

[flyfisho]

Jeremy ,
still no powered motors, paddle power only ,and from what I hear they are not likely to change the rule either , at one stage one of the local councilors was going to see it used as a bird watching facility only and was going to ban fishing all together .
I find it quite amazing that they persist with this rule when dams like Macdonald which are not that much bigger have got a much bigger kabomba problem.

by the way sounds like a good session , its been a long time since I have heard of Toga coming out of there so congrats , but there are definatly some tanks in there

[DARC]

Nice work there BnB, sounds like you had a few ups and downs in your session but after all, that's what fishing's all about! Especially being your first trip there.
I've driven past Ewen Maddock a couple of times. Is there any spots around there to flick lures from the bank?

Cheers DARC

[basskid]

yeh heaps drive around to the picnic area and there is a massive rock wall there is heaps of spots from the bank and the basss are waiting for you

[Jeremy87]

paddle power is fine by me, might give it a hit with the canoe one day

[bream"n"bass]

yea it a pretty good fishery. disapointed with the lost saratoga but theres always next time. i find that extremly stupid about not being able to use eletric motors, they create no pollution it basically the same as paddle power plus the dam isn't even being used to supply water anywere. weird. thanks for the replies