The change of the season,
I love this time of the year,summer's slowly slipping away,where now into autumn at the moment and winter is now bearing down on us here in Australia.It's comfortable weather to fish.You can fish all day with out have heat stroke or servere sunburn,the morning's are getting cooler but not that cold that your nose run's and all the end's of your limb's are numb..lol,not yet anyway!!!.At the moment the bass are getting ready to spawn in both the impoundment and also the wild river bass.The wild bass head long distance's down stream to find the brackish water and feed up and put on weight for the long distance travelling and the spawning.The impoundment bass get the urge to spawn and school up near the wall's of the dam trying to head downstream like they do in the wild, but can not actually breed due to the lack of the brackish water,hence they get stocked each year to keep the stock's up.So this is the time to get amongst em as they attack neally everything that moves.I think the cooling water raising the oxygen help's them liven up as well.The bass are taking soft plastic's on around a 1/2oz,1/4oz,1/6oz jig,depending on depth's etc.Popular plastic's are Ecogear power shad's around the 2 1/2,3 inch size,Berkley minnow grups,gulps.atomic ripperz,slider's just to name a few,the list goes on but there some of the popular ones,Some popular colour's are camo,rainbow trout,banana prawn,smoke yellow core and so on.Spinnerbait's,lipless crank bait's and crankbait's(personally i like the TN 60 jackell's) are all working by all report's and some good fish and number's are being taken.Bass here can be caught pretty much all year round but this is my favourate time of year to target em.This is when a good sounder really earn's it keep, and keep's you on the suspending fish and torment a bass into striking, help's find the scatted fish as well,i love my HB side imaging sounder for the dam's,the fish can run but they can't hide..lol.:cheers:
I love this time of the year,summer's slowly slipping away,where now into autumn at the moment and winter is now bearing down on us here in Australia.It's comfortable weather to fish.You can fish all day with out have heat stroke or servere sunburn,the morning's are getting cooler but not that cold that your nose run's and all the end's of your limb's are numb..lol,not yet anyway!!!.At the moment the bass are getting ready to spawn in both the impoundment and also the wild river bass.The wild bass head long distance's down stream to find the brackish water and feed up and put on weight for the long distance travelling and the spawning.The impoundment bass get the urge to spawn and school up near the wall's of the dam trying to head downstream like they do in the wild, but can not actually breed due to the lack of the brackish water,hence they get stocked each year to keep the stock's up.So this is the time to get amongst em as they attack neally everything that moves.I think the cooling water raising the oxygen help's them liven up as well.The bass are taking soft plastic's on around a 1/2oz,1/4oz,1/6oz jig,depending on depth's etc.Popular plastic's are Ecogear power shad's around the 2 1/2,3 inch size,Berkley minnow grups,gulps.atomic ripperz,slider's just to name a few,the list goes on but there some of the popular ones,Some popular colour's are camo,rainbow trout,banana prawn,smoke yellow core and so on.Spinnerbait's,lipless crank bait's and crankbait's(personally i like the TN 60 jackell's) are all working by all report's and some good fish and number's are being taken.Bass here can be caught pretty much all year round but this is my favourate time of year to target em.This is when a good sounder really earn's it keep, and keep's you on the suspending fish and torment a bass into striking, help's find the scatted fish as well,i love my HB side imaging sounder for the dam's,the fish can run but they can't hide..lol.:cheers: