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After giving the punt a make over we decided to go to Cania for a trip.
It was our first trip up there.
Cania was excellent. We caught 10 saratoga for the week and heaps of bass, yellow belly, spangle perch, and even a big ell tail catfish.
The toga took a little working out as they weren't really on the bite but in the whole time there I saw 36 fish swimming around on the surface. It was a great buzz to see them. The biggest was 63cm and we caught them using all methods. On one day I even used an unweighted soft plastic on a worm hook to fool one. Cate as usual caught some nice yellows on spinnerbaits and by mistake discovered the best surface lure for togas. She had an overrun and the boat was drifting with her Rapala Fatrap on the end of her line. It must have been slowly wiggling on the surface when a toga grabbed it. After that she developed her technique and started to catch fish. I switched over and had similar success.
We met a local "expert" who continually went to the top of the dam each day for very little result. He said that soft plastics were no good here. Cate and I caught 90% of our bass on slider grubs about 50m off the boat ramp!!!! They were there plain as day on the sounder.
Cate with a yellowbelly
It was our first trip up there.
Cania was excellent. We caught 10 saratoga for the week and heaps of bass, yellow belly, spangle perch, and even a big ell tail catfish.
The toga took a little working out as they weren't really on the bite but in the whole time there I saw 36 fish swimming around on the surface. It was a great buzz to see them. The biggest was 63cm and we caught them using all methods. On one day I even used an unweighted soft plastic on a worm hook to fool one. Cate as usual caught some nice yellows on spinnerbaits and by mistake discovered the best surface lure for togas. She had an overrun and the boat was drifting with her Rapala Fatrap on the end of her line. It must have been slowly wiggling on the surface when a toga grabbed it. After that she developed her technique and started to catch fish. I switched over and had similar success.
We met a local "expert" who continually went to the top of the dam each day for very little result. He said that soft plastics were no good here. Cate and I caught 90% of our bass on slider grubs about 50m off the boat ramp!!!! They were there plain as day on the sounder.
Cate with a yellowbelly
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