Hey fellas
Our aussie bass are a bloody tough little fish and a real treat to chase. From what i have seen they are very similar to ur small and large mouth at dawn and dusk they will smash a surface lure or fly then i ususally change to a purple spinner bait or hard body as soon as the sunlight hits the water. For me i think the best thing about them is the kind of country they live in its always beautyful countryside and a fish is a real bonus. the picture of that bass is my pb at 530mm and she was caught on a popper fly which certainly blew the cob webbs out one chilly sunday morning and if u look closely u can see the fish was actually tagged. I rang the reasearch place that does the tagging and they told me that fish was tagged 2 years ago and had grown 40 mm in that 2 years and was caught and tagged only about 500m from where i caught it which i found fasinating.
As doc said most of those fish were caught in southern NSW south of sydney some of the areas are St georges basin, Clyde river Batemans bay, Mallacotta inlet, shoalhaven river Nowra there all great places especially when you get up to the areas where the fresh meets the salt.
breachless jkbirocz if u can get ya self over here there is always a spare room in our place . Where im living at the moment in Cairns QLD the fishing is second to none im yet to get a big one but we have the mighty barramundi here and they are the kinda fish that makes the hairs stad up on the back of ur neck. I just came back from a trip to cape york and WOW its hard to believe places like that can still exist but the whole cape is about 1200km X 500km and believe it or not is almost completely closed off for 5 months of the year to everyone so u can imagine how the fish react.
I would be fine with sleeping in a kangaroo pouch if I could catch some of those wild looking fish :shock:
