Hey Guys.
I heard that Angus (Bris_Vegas) and Ando (mat_anderson)were heading to North Pine to target some of those 50cm+ land based Bass Jimmy had been raving about in his last report. So I thought I'd grab a lift too. We got there at around 4:30am for the first cast. It's a great looking dam besides the fact there's next to no water in it!
I was using 8lb Fireline mainline with 12lb Nitlon fluoro leader and a Jackall Bros TN70 lipless crankbait. Gus was using 8lb Fireline Crystal mainline with I think 10lb Vanish fluoro leader and a Berkley Frenzy Rattle Trap and Ando was using a Duel vibe with 4lb Fireline mainline and 10lb fluoro leader. (unsure of brand)
I saw some nice structure that will remain unidentified leading into the water. I said that looks Bassie and had a cast. First cast at it, bang! A quick zzzzzzzz, reel, zzzzzzzz, reel and a new P.B. Bass was landed at around 40cms fork. Got a few flicks and back he went.
We worked our way around the corner to some flats where a guy was fishing with his numerous amount of bait rods. After a few casts I was onto another Bass at around 25cms. Goes to show the small Bass don't mind big lures! I nailed 2 25-30cm fork Bass and both Gus and Ando got there first fish of the day at around the same size.
While we were getting lots of smaller fish on the flats we decided to go in search of those Jimmy big mumma Bass so it was decided on a spot change. Angus had remembered some powerlines in the background of James' report pictures so we headed towards those.
We weren't sure if we were in the right place but we had a few casts along a shallow bank that stepped right down to a 3 or 4m drop. After about 5 minutes of casting I whip my Jackall out as far as I can so I can see backing and let it start sinking to the bottom. I give it a few seconds to sink as I usually would but I noticed the lure wasn't sinking. I reeled up the slack line. Was that a bite I thought when I started to reel when zzzzzzzz. It was hard to tell if this fish was big or not until about 10 or so seconds when he went on a second run. I still had a load of line to gain on him. About half way through the fight Ando hooks onto a 40cm Bass about 5m from the bank for a nice double hook up.
Matt's fish is landed about 5secs before mine. I only get a quick glimpse at his fish on the bank while I'm still landing mine. 'Holy Sh!t' he says as he looks down at his nice fish. HOLY SH!T I say once I get a good look at the big Bassie on the end of my line splashing about on the surface. I think we all said 'HOLY Sh!T' together. Up comes my new improved 50cm exactly fork length and 51.5cm full length P.B. Bass. What a nice fat fish he was. After a good hard look in disbeleif, a picture of the double hook up Bass, an easy corner jaw single hook hook up removal and a few more 'HOLY Sh!T's'. The fish was very quickly released to be caught again another day to be someone elses freak child P.B. Bass.
The fishing slowed for a while afterwards. Me and Ando seemed to be liking the mud too much constantly sinking and loosing shoes. I also helped retreive Ando's lure from a snag. Oh the things I do for friends.
We decided to target some Golden Perch at the steep drops further along the bank. We had no luck until I felt a sloid hit then snagged. I started shaking the rod to get it out. I wasn't sure if it was just the snag I felt hit myline or a fish. Then it started moving. 'Hey, it's a fish!' this fish felt a lot more weightier then all the other fish and I wasn't sure what it was. We all saw yellow. Ando and Gus called Yellowbelly but not to be. It was a fat 50cm+ Tandenus Catfish. They have the same ugly looking face and lips as the Brisbane River Catties, though they just pull a lot harder and don't have the dirty slime! .
We called it time and headed for home and had a geeze into South Pine River while going over a bridge. It looked fishy so we chucked a youie and headed back for a quick flick. Ando kept on his Duel vibe and Gus had a Halco Combat on while I had changed to an sx40. I got a little tap from 15cm Bream from around some pylons and soon after a nice bigger one nailed it. I had him on for a few seconds before I dropped him bugger I didn't get to see him. Soon after Ando is onto a nice Flattie at just under legal. On my last cast I got a mdget Breambo.
All up it was a great day with 11 fish landed and 4 species caught. Not bad considering is was both Ando's and my first Bass luring session. I will be back there very soon to try and up my new P.B.
Total Tally:
Troy:
Fresh: 5 Bass (25cm,25cm,25cm,40cm,50cm) 1 Eel-Tailed Catfish (50cm)
Salt: 1 Bream (10cm)
Ando:
Fresh: 2 Bass (25cm,40cm)
Salt: 1 Flathead (38cm)
Angus:
Fresh: 1 Bass (25cm)
Cheers, Troy
Here's the double hook up of the 50 and 40cm fish.
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. So I think they will stay on 8lb 
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Originally Posted by blue-mako
Like he just won AFC Outdoors. 
