Hinze 36 Easter Bass

[MitchCalcutt]

Started fishing @ 5am Friday morning finished 12pm for a hard fort 36 Bass. Only two went over 40cm.
1 on popper, 3 trolled up and a majority of the rest on Spinnerbaits.
Mitch
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[bdowdy]

nice session mitch, hows those sores,did most fish have them or just a select few.cheers bdowdy..brett

[BARRAkid]

good fish mate those sores dont look good
whats the whited out bit on the mouth are you keep a lure secret ?

[woodsy76]

great report mate you got to be happy with effort well done woodsy

[ffejsmada]

Mitch, what's the point in showing a photo with a blacked out lure???????
You know you're gonna get queries, so why don't you just show us.
What are you teasing us for????

Jeff.

[steve99]

Hey Mitch,

There's fuzzy white stuff on your pics.

Whats the story bro????

Steve99

[MitchCalcutt]

Hi yall;
The northern end of the eastern arm produced all sick fish last weekend.
And some lures I use will remain a secret.
Mitch

[moggy1]

Heard the bass last weekend at Somerset had red spot as well.

[tailorboi99]

What has caused those sores? Do the fish feel pain and do they die after them?

Cheers Tom

[Pumba]

Hi Guys,
Fished Hinze Saturday arvo for 10 Bass and 2 hookups on 'Toga- both pulled loose when they jumped. Caught the bass on Spinnerbaits, Flies and Suspending Jerkbaits. Both the Toga came on Suspending jerkbaits.

About half the bass I caught had what looked like Saprolegnia or (hopefully not) EUS. Either way it is mainly caused by poor water quality due to large rainfall. They should recover if this weather sorts itself out and when the water clears.

Cheers,
Matt

[moggy1]

Heard on some bream comps down south any bream caught with red spot were to be diposed off (DPI requirement). I know the fish heal from it but you can see the scares that it leaves when the fish has healed. Also have heard that it is highly contaigous to other fish. More info on this would be great to us that dont have the knowledge on this if any one could help.
Cheer Moggy

[rc@hinze]

Great effort Mitch on 36 bass in the one session. You must have enjoyed yourself. Sounds like you have sorted out the the spinnerbaits now.

[MitchCalcutt]

Great effort Mitch on 36 bass in the one session. You must have enjoyed yourself. Sounds like you have sorted out the the spinnerbaits now.

We fished again today with contrasting results. 17 Bass from the western arm, the fish were inconsistantly feading all morning.
Mitch

[Pumba]

Heard on some bream comps down south any bream caught with red spot were to be diposed off (DPI requirement). I know the fish heal from it but you can see the scares that it leaves when the fish has healed. Also have heard that it is highly contaigous to other fish. More info on this would be great to us that dont have the knowledge on this if any one could help.
Cheer Moggy

Saprolegenia is a fungus that is often found in freshwater aquaculture around the change of the seasons (changes in water temperature) when the fish have been roughly handled, are held to densly, or, as I would say as in the case of the dam fish, under stressful conditions.

Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS) is found in both fresh and saltwater, and as you mentioned they had a case of red spot in the Richmond following the floods down there. It is generally caused by the side effects of high rainfall- low pH, low temp and high organic load. The fungus can cause 100% infection rates amoung fish in the immediate area. Mortalities arent frequent in larger fish- they usually recover when conditions improve. Secondary Bacterial infection of the open wounds can sometimes cause more problems than the initial fungus.

Either way the fish recover quickly once water conditions improve.

On a positive note, when we fished up the eastern arm on Monday, found a few big schools of bass suspending 3-4m below the surface in 10m of water, feeding on what looked like ant larvae. Pulled a dozen or so nice fish on fly before they spooked. All these fish were typical schooling Hinze fish- ~40cm and starting to put on some winter condition. Not one had any symptoms of any disease. Pulled on a few undersize fish off the banks on spinnerbaits and jackals. Spoke to a few people at the ramp and they got most of their better fish in the deeperwater as well.

Cheers,
Matt

[reelemin1974]

Hi Matt, I think we spoke on monday, you were fishing fly???? We were the d**** that got none. we came over where the three boats were but didn't want to barge in and start casting as well. Whats the etiquette here?? Sean