[JD]

Alex and I arranged to meet at 6.15am on the way to Baroon Pocket Dam. A great morning, no wind and no other boats.

We got set up and paddled off to one of the spots that Alex had marked on his map.

A slow start as we crossed the deeper water. No action at spot No1 except for a couple of small hits on a TT revhead with a Squidgy plastic.

Off to spot No2. A change to a hard body lure saw a nice bass around 30cm landed. From then on we both enjoyed a couple of hours of catch and release.

All together we caught 20 bass. Most in the 28cm-30cm. One went 42cm.

A Viper lure in purple and black, and a Feral Cat in the same colour were the most productive. Alex also ran a Halco in an orange colour.

We were trolling in about 4-6m of water so these lures would have been close to the bottom.

We both tried spinnerbaits without success.

All in all a very good morning.

John

 

[wongus]

Nice mornings fishing... 20fish is a good tally.. Top looking pic of the bass.

 

[Peril]

Sounds like a great session John. Top bass

 

[YakAtak]

Nice work guys, great session, 42cms is a good size bass.

 

[Steveo]

Nice Catch Guys, There must be plenty of feed in the dams by the look of the Bass and Yellow's getting caught lately.

 

[paffoh]

Great photos mate, glad to put a face to the names. 8)

Great patch of water and a top effort with the Bass, 20 is no run of the mill day... A feral cat lure? Man ive got to see this, Top name for a lure... Yet to catch a Bass so i tend to drool and dribble alot when i read a good report.

Well done mate and good luck in the future!

 

[JD]

paffoh
I'll try to take a pic of the feral cat and post it for you. My neighbour will know where to get them, he's a real lure nut.

John

 

[Jake]

Nice one John. Did you happen to see Kilkenny out there? He was going to take his new Hobie for a blast there this morning.

 

[WayneD]

Very nice JD, how come you didn't give me any pointers on the freshwater fishing scene when I saw you at the Pine? This is one time when I do have a lot to learn from you grasshopper. I only caught one fish. But I mainly limited myself to SP's today so that may be why I didn't catch too many. (Still happy with the one I got though!)

Where did you get your hat from? The older I get the more sensible I get about sun protection. I have been looking for one of them but can't find one anywhere.

 

[Dodge]

Great outing result John and the big bass is a beauty

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

Red.

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[milansek]

JD sounds like a good trip . love those Farrel cats .i would go to say it is the best trolling bass lure i have used. milan

 

[polylureosis]

John,

Sounds like a great day.
Baroon is great spot for geting out of the wind. Which part of the dam were you fishing in (N,S,E,W - If you don't want to sell the specifics :wink: )

Ash

 

[Y-Knot]

nice fish nice location JD. 8)

 

[JD]

Jake-- There was another kayak on the other side of the dam, might have been Kilkenny.

Wayne-- We can't teach you everything at once. I think most of the tackle shops have the hats. Capalaba weekend markets used to have them.

Red-- Don't know what's got the bass firing, it's the first time for a while that I've been in the freshwater. I had to drag out the freahwater tackle box. Water temp around 25 deg. when we started from memory.

Milan-- You should try the Viper, it's made by a bloke in Brisy, I could try and get a contact for you if you wish. I've had my Vipers for a while.

Ash-- The fishing spots were provided by Alex, but we didn't fish N,S or W. Alex did pick up a bass just of the ramp.