barrabait

Thanks for the info everyone. Im keen to give it a go. I'll let yous know if i get the hang of it and catch a few fish. ;D barrabait

Thanks for the info Basspro48. I'll give pitching a go. barrabait

Ok it's my turn to ask a question or two. I read SneakySnooks post on his best bass caught "pitching". What the heck is pitching? Is it possible to explain it to me or will I have to come over there and go fishin with one of you blokes to learn. I will be fishing on a lake in two weeks with Aussie Bass in it and Im keen to try out this pitching thing especially if it catches big bass. Also are your lakes stocked with bass or do they breed naturally in the impoundments. Our bass need brackish/salt water to breed so the fish in the impoundments can not breed. Thanks. barrabait

Ok this is my little girl. Look a bit plain compaired to some of the orsm rigs in your pic's but I love her just the same. I have a 40hp 4-stroke Yammy pushing her. darren.

bugged up and sent the same pic twice,,sorry. C YA Darren.

Some more sooty's

Ok another couple of pics, First one is my PB barra caught 15 minutes after my young fella got his best fish. We were working around a weed bed in less then 3 mtrs of water just after the sun set. The next is of another caught on a soft swim bait just before sun up.

While Im at it I may as well post a pic of a barra we caught this morning. Ben is new to the area and by a chance meeting I discovered he is a keen fisherman. Haveing never caught a barra before I offered to take hime out to see if we could add barra to his fishing list. We done it tough with 5 fish hooked but every one of them cleared the water shaking there heads and managed to throw the lure. Finally in around 4 foot of water in standing timber Ben nailed this fish. Took some getting in as it stiched us up in the timber fairly good but with a lot of luck we bullied it out and now Ben has a new species to his list. darren.

This one is a Yellowbelly. Part of the perch family of native fish here. The pic is from a few years back. thats my son with his bigest fish ever. The next pic is of my boy a bit older and a lot wiser in the fishing game with his NEW BEST EVER fish. It,s a meter long Barra, caught a ferw weeks ago. hope you enjoy the pics.

This is a pic of a Saratoga. These things go balistic and jump out of the water when hooked. Very popular with the fly fisher's. We catch a fair few on hard body and soft plastic lures. they are a surface feeder. This would only be about half the size they grow to.

G-day again. Bout time I sent in a couple of Aussie bass pics instead of barra ones. Sorry about the quallity of the pics as they have been scaned from photos from the old camera. Cant find the disc with the digi pics yet.

Hey fishinaz, I have caught two fish at the same time on the same lure twice now. Once a rather large catfish tried to nick the lure out of a sootys mouth and I ended up with the two stuck together for a short time untill the sooty got off and I landed the catty. Second time it was two small sootys together. Different sort of fish to your bass but I think the second fish you seen had the same idear of nickin a quick meal from his neighbour. Darren.

Must be a lucky Jacket. One of my mates with his first impoundment sooty wearing my jacket. Eungella dam is around 550 meters above sea level so the temp is a little cooler in the mornings compaired to where I live on the coast 2 hours drive away. I live by the ocean but never fish the salt as the fresh water fishing around here is too good. Darren

Crikey my spellin aint to good

Ok ,something different. This is a pic of Sooty grunter. they are a super agressive fish and will attack almost any lure you throw near them. Smaller then a barra but they pull like a freight train. Surface lures work well untill the sun hits the water and then I switch to soft plastics so I can sink the lure down to the depth the fish are holding at. Spinnerbaits work well but I dont use them a often. Wild sootys in our local rivers can be caught through out the day on small hard bodied lures but the impoundment fish seem to shut down around 8am. Our trick to finding the sootys is to look for trees that have the local water birds roosting in them all night. The birds crap in the water all night and the bait fish rise to the surface to feed on the crap, then the sootys come up and smash the bait fish. So when one of the birds does its business into the water usually a few seconds later we see a swerl on the surface of the water. Chuck ya lure close to the swirl and a millisecond later your on to a sooty. Sort of cheating using the birds as a sign post but hey the goal is to catch fish so I use any means I can to increase my chanses. Catfish are also in the rivers so we catch a few of them as well. The ouch in this pic is a 4/0 hook impailed in my finger. The fish spun around as I was removing it from the landing net and I got hooked up to the lure. Took a fair bit of effort to push it all the way through my finger to get it out. The hook went in beside my fingernail and the poind just broke the shin in the middle of the finger. Getting it out the way it went in was not going to happen so I pushed it all the way through. Good thing Iv got a good supply of blood as I let a fair bit of it out when the hook came out :'(. Darren