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Daniel from Somerset FishingTackle with a 45cm bass hooked on Taylor with a healthy saratoga. a Voodoo chrome lure.
Winter wonderland on Somerset Dam
INTER has started to set They get fat and hungry. bank, Bay 13 and the edges with no in. With all the anticipa- Unfortunately, myself and a few success. Returning to our launch- tion and excitement of others headed out on the water after ing point of Kirkleagh, we snagged
the past couple of months of the the restrictions lifted only to find some golden perch in the shallower
lakes getting a reprieve from fishers and boaters, we were back out on the lake in May.
the water was very dirty, with some- thing like a silt under the surface, there was no thermocline and the bass we could find were suspended mid-water and sulking.
4.5m water just off the boat ramp. If you were looking to head out on Somerset in June, I’d suggest trolling. Dan in the shop caught a few on Voodoo hard-body lures, and Nathan Mitchell also did the same on both the Voodoos and Bullship BS80. These waters dive to about
I must say, Somerset generally has two rough periods for fishing and April is usually one of them, as the bass start to look at transitioning to deep water and schooling for une- ventful partnering up.
We checked the usual spots, went to the Spit and found nothing on the sounder, so headed to Beams Creek, but it was very slow there.
6m.
At the end of May, the water tem-
Bass can’t breed in fresh water, as they require salt water to perform the operation, so they school up and pretend it’s all going to happen.
We finally found a large school at Pelican Point but they did not want to eat anything we had to offer. Next we checked Happy Clappers
perature stabilised and the water cleared up, with great reports of big- * continued P97
Dave Eklic nailed a 53cm fish on a Voodoo lure.
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Dave with a 50cm bass hooked on his homemade trolling lure.
Mitchell’s first-ever yellowbelly hooked on his own painted project Dave’s Lure.
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