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Archie Richters and his personal best 43cm fork- length bass, caught on his favourite Hot Bite Jets in Maggot colour. He cast and retrieved the lure by himself.
The season started off quite well, with plenty of great catches – big yellowbelly and bass were prominent.
I’ll cover these tech- niques in another issue. Trolling has been super effective this month, with bass sitting at depths of between
Live bait has seen a few anglers rewarded, and trolling will pro- duce for those who pre- fer to use lures.
Tunza with a personal best, which he attributed to his bright shorts.
SBass firing on all cylinders
PRING is well and truly here and bass are finally
Somerset Dam
by ROBBIE RAYNER
waking up.
They seem to be a
in timbered sections on the edges of the dam with Jackall TN60 lures and skirted punch rigs with a craw plastic.
you’re able to tempt them into eating your lure, you can have a great time.
month behind compared to previous years, in both location and size.
I’ve had great success
Casting spoons and blades was the go-to early on in the month, selecting out bigger fish – though fewer of them.
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6-9m.
The new Whiptail
Lures Necromancer is currently number one and was actually made to meet our request to get to these depths.
Halco Twisty lures, PML Diamond back spoons and Nories Wasaby spoons have accounted for the ma- jority of catches for lure casters.
The AC Slim Invader is another great fish catch- er and worth trying.
The area around Kir- kleagh – in front of the cabins on the eastern side of the riverbed – has been holding seri- ously big bass, and if
Later in the season, fish will sit at Red Rock and bass have been found sitting in 12m or deeper – we’ve had sev-
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Ty Richardson of Kilcoy trolled this bass in a tim- bered section of the dam.
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