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Harry Watson and Matt Johnson with a weekday bass session.
Nicole with a cracker PB over 50cm on voodoo in zombie colour.
over the past month, many anglers opted to head to Wivenhoe, ex- cept the die-hard ded- icated anglers chasing the elusive world-re- cord bass, which is currently sitting at 4.45kg held by Daniel McCoy.
ily, this is the time – it’s not too hot and campfires are more than welcome, with toasty marshmallows.
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Somerset Dam anglers Wchasing world-record bass
ITH the now open, so if you ing on the depth of difficult- want to head to the the edge you’re fish- ness of dam and camp out ing you would need to
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We predict it will be broken this year with the health of our fish- ery.
We are noticing that trolling is still the way to go, particularly for kids, and lures that run to around 5-7m seem tobethewaytogo.
This past month has seen limited numbers of bass caught, but the quality is there with a little bit of dedicated hard work and some cold morning starts.
These fish are thick but difficult to catch – once you spot lock they are out of there and are moving around – still trying to settle after the water change over the past four weeks.
Dave’s Lures, Voo- doo, RMG, Whiptail Piglet and Bullship lures have all result- ed in great catches of yellowbelly and bass, especially around the Kirkleagh Flats area.
The holiday park is
Westvale has also had some great catch- es, with some locals getting their catches mostly on bait.
Though bass are still scattered about the lake, several good schools are sitting in areas such as Pelican Point, right up close to the bank of Happy Clappers and the usual spot of Queens Street.
Matt Johnson and Harry Watson have had some great catch- es on the dam lately.
Several techniques have proven to entice these bass to bite and the main one has been using a deep water fly.
Redclaw crab catch- es have been pretty good around the 2.5m mark using cantaloupe and sweet potato as main bait, but don’t be scared to mix up a concoction of different baits and put these into crab pots.
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Steve ‘Killer’ Kanowski and John Schoffield were out on a weekend recently and caught plenty on John’s hand-tied flies.
These fishers run a very particular leader – we will show you how to set this leader up in a future issue so you’re not dragging your fly through the mud, but as a constant run in the school.
Please note the crab- bing rules of a 6” round float with name and phone number - a must at Somerset.
One of Hot Bites’ pro team members also had success with bass using Hot Bites’ new secret lure, to be re- leased later this year.
Over the coming weeks we should see soft plastics becoming more of the go to lure, as well as spoons.
Another successful technique for anglers has been spinner baits to the edges and Jack- all Squirrels, depend-
Halco’s Twisty are still my spoon of choice and slider grub plastics on a 1/2oz im- pact jig head is my preference of plastics.
Page 72 – Bush ’n Beach Fishing, July 2020
Robbie Rayner
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