SOMERSET SESSION Midyear Muster 25th July

[stevelcqld]

Ok, got just about all the camp gear together...

What lures / tackle should I bring so that I have a hope of catching at least 1 bass over 4 days ( unlike my fly fishing days at Glenbawn... 3 trips for nil fish... )

Any advice apart from explosives will be welcome :-)

Maybe the more experienced guys could do a list so that us bass virgins might break the hoodoo we have ..

Steve

[shrunken pojie]

Ok, got just about all the camp gear together...

What lures / tackle should I bring so that I have a hope of catching at least 1 bass over 4 days ( unlike my fly fishing days at Glenbawn... 3 trips for nil fish... )

Any advice apart from explosives will be welcome :-)

Steve

Steve,

Bring it all, that way it doesn't matter, you will have the right stuff! And the redclaw pots!

Phill

[darylive]

You just about read my mind Pete .......

Chris

Ah Ha Ha Ha good luck with that Pete! plenty of readin there

hey there campers! I have assumed the name Bevan and am in the process of deleting all multi syllable words from my vocabulary. My formal attire extends to a collared flannelette shirt and black denim. Casual dress is more relaxed consisting of a collared flannelette shirt and black denim. I now smoke winnie reds and only drink bourbon from a can. I considered a Rum conversion but that would require CAT mudflaps, RM Williams boots and far too many aerials on the ute. besides I cant wear a hat like "the hat" can, too much salt and sand in my DNA which will also require some Genome shortening to allow my body to form a natural slouched stance. Hair is growing out nicely, should have the mullet sorted for the end of footy season. See you all in a few weeks.

Cheers Bevan.

Dear Beaven, leave your casual dress at home please, you sick Basard

Sorry Bevan, Unless your from Ipswich, darra or Kilcoy....your still classed as a hippie from potsville.!!! have a shower and sort yourself out.

steve

Having worked at all those places I can confirm that

Unlike a Fart in a Phone Box.....IM BACK......4000klm and 9days later, getting a bit toey after passing all those Impoundment turnoff's.....only 3 weeks to Somerset so Ill just have to wait.....Have I missed any news I guess Ill have to read all replys for the last 9 days

Thank God your here! us old Farts have to....... never mind

be a good test of his thermal jocks tonite, ffffffffffffluffing cold out there with this westerly blowing

Bloody Cold, You have no Idea, How bloody cold was it at somerset

Fishing would have been pretty tough with those winds yesterday & Friday ........ Thats the nice thing about Mondy ... you can get some protection.

Chris

Well I'll tell ya 300 knots Friday and 200knots Saturday.

To steal one of Trev's saying's "The Wind can be your Friend" in my experience Windy conditions far outway Glassed out conditions at Somerset.....baring in mind I don't cast lures but Jig a 1/2 0z Data Jig with Sliders after I find the Bass and Mark them

"The Wind can be your Friend" BULLS#IT! Breeze is your Buddy. Wind can piss off!

If wind is your friend ask the basard to keep away from Somerset on the 24th..etc..

sitting on a school would be pretty difficult & working a bank even more so

Oh yea what a basard, At one stage I had the Queenlsander out of the water prop and all fightin the bloody waves.

Yeah I am looking forward to the schooling fish thing.. .done the drift spin thing yeasty for a few bass but it was tough in the cold westerly....

Man though they are great fish these bass they hit awful hard so I am guessing a somerset 2 kg jobby will be a real handfull

Well there was bugger all caught this weekend . the only good thing was there were bugger all SKI Idiots on the Dam. Off Course the one crew that were there camped next to me. Doof Doof Doof!!

There is still claw / bait to be caught but they are on the decline apparently
not that I give a shirt. A lot of those imbeciles come from the same school as SKI Idiots; They go flying past flogging shirt out of their tiny BANG BANG F'BANG and give you a wave as they pass. You should be able to shoot those Idiots.

Oh and on the way home some old fart rolled his new Torago in front of me on the road works in a 40k zone, straight road? The thing came to rest on its side. It looked liked the inside was full of smoke, I thought it was on fire (bloody air bags).

Those bloody laminated windscreens are a bastard to break! Surprising how high a Torago is on it's side. Any way eventually got Mum and Dad out through the top door and after 2 or three fire units and three ambulances turned up we got the old girl off my camp bunk into the meat wagon and I have not long got home.

Did I mention there was no fish caught. I might post a report in the report section, but bed time now.

GOOD NIGHT

Slow Down Stupid! It ain't only the kids!

[NAGG]

Ah Ha Ha Ha good luck with that Pete! plenty of readin there



Dear Beaven, leave your casual dress at home please, you sick Basard



Having worked at all those places I can confirm that



Thank God your here! us old Farts have to....... never mind



Bloody Cold, You have no Idea, How bloody cold was it at somerset




Well I'll tell ya 300 knots Friday and 200knots Saturday.



"The Wind can be your Friend" BULLS#IT! Breeze is your Buddy. Wind can piss off!

If wind is your friend ask the basard to keep away from Somerset on the 24th..etc..


Oh yea what a basard, At one stage I had the Queenlsander out of the water prop and all fightin the bloody waves.



Well there was bugger all caught this weekend . the only good thing was there were bugger all SKI Idiots on the Dam. Off Course the one crew that were there camped next to me. Doof Doof Doof!!

There is still claw / bait to be caught but they are on the decline apparently
not that I give a shirt. A lot of those imbeciles come from the same school as SKI Idiots; They go flying past flogging shirt out of their tiny BANG BANG F'BANG and give you a wave as they pass. You should be able to shoot those Idiots.

Oh and on the way home some old fart rolled his new Torago in front of me on the road works in a 40k zone, straight road? The thing came to rest on its side. It looked liked the inside was full of smoke, I thought it was on fire (bloody air bags).

Those bloody laminated windscreens are a bastard to break! Surprising how high a Torago is on it's side. Any way eventually got Mum and Dad out through the top door and after 2 or three fire units and three ambulances turned up we got the old girl off my camp bunk into the meat wagon and I have not long got home.

Did I mention there was no fish caught. I might post a report in the report section, but bed time now.

GOOD NIGHT

Slow Down Stupid! It ain't only the kids!

- - - - - - If only those Doof Doofers knew who they were camped next too

So no fish hey ? - This is sounding rather ominous , as there has been SFA caught since the water influx
Any chance of re routing to Boondooma ...... bassin has been good there

& it has the best stack of firewood

Chris

PS ...... I'm with you Darren - A little breeze is good but a F'n hurricane sux

[Awoonga]

Now as l am not going to this muster so where you go its up to you ... but l am a caring person and if you want to catch the odd bass read my freshwater report

[Pete62]

Daryl, looks like it's tough fishin at Somerset at the mo, personally I don't mind where we go if a location change is in order.

Well done for helping out with the accident.

Trev, read your report on BP, sounds like once u found em they were there for the taking, wonder why that's not the case at Somerset??

Pete.

[Whitto]

Daryl, looks like it's tough fishin at Somerset at the mo, personally I don't mind where we go if a location change is in order.

Well done for helping out with the accident.

Trev, read your report on BP, sounds like once u found em they were there for the taking, wonder why that's not the case at Somerset??

Pete.

Pete I have fished Somerset for many many years BUT not of recent times..(since the big influx of water)....the trick is to find the Schools mark with a marker and drift over them jigging...it's another thing to get them to bite...Somerset can be a bit Iffy at times.......The last time Somerset had a very large influx of water it took alot of time for it to start producing.

[themissus]

Happy to go else where if needed!! So long as there's fish I'll be happy!!
Cheers Daryl.

[Pete62]

Pete I have fished Somerset for many many years BUT not of recent times..(since the big influx of water)....the trick is to find the Schools mark with a marker and drift over them jigging...it's another thing to get them to bite...Somerset can be a bit Iffy at times.......The last time Somerset had a very large influx of water it took alot of time for it to start producing.

Thanks Whitto, is it fair to say that all the dams in the area got a fair bit of inflow? If so why has Somerset shut down.
Also, the emphasis seems to be on jigging, are winter Bass and Barra the same? the fish holding deep are not in feed mode, should we be looking for them up in the shallows, (walmer water)we all see Barra on the sounder holding deep and more often than not these fish are not looking for tucker.

Not professing to know here, just asking the question.

Pete.

[Pete62]

Happy to go else where if needed!! So long as there's fish I'll be happy!!
Cheers Daryl.

True Kimmoie, long as they don't push too far north for us southerners or we may as well just go to Mondy

Pete.

[NAGG]

Lets see what the Chief Daryl has to say on the matter

Daryl

[themissus]

True Kimmoie, long as they don't push too far north for us southerners or we may as well just go to Mondy

Pete.

Don't tease me Daryl.....

Cheif Daryl to make the call. We're easy either way.

Are any of you Daryl's partaking in "Dry July"???

[Pete62]

Dry July ?? what's that a month without rain?? Or can we only drink Extra Dry or Rum and Dry for the month, either way,I'm in.

[NAGG]

I always participate

As you can see in this photo of the ground cover .....Dry.jpg Last month was EXTRA DRY

[Whitto]

AAAAhhhh a fine body of Dodgy looking characters.......suitably well Beveraged......Photographic memories.......Now thats a Pool Room item