Hodgey Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 (edited) G'Day all Finally had a productive session using a variety of pencils recommended by Raiders this weekend. Weather conditions in the morning were ideal. There was a great ripple across the surface of the water, and we had found some 'new' water with extended weed banks and masses of broken racks. The fish were there in vast numbers, but they were very hard to extricate from all the debris. I commenced the morning with the clear pencil below, and managed 6 fish bewtween 32-25cm. Satisfied that this was a successful lure, I changed to the NW Pencil pictured, and had moderate success with it. I had purchased 5 Bassday Popers during the week, but had left them sitting on the bench at home! Resorted to 'old faithful', and that's what the rest of the fish fell to. (Dene used that popper for the whole morning). When the wind was up, we nailed 16 fish in 32 min, and lost one popper. The wind dropped, the surface cleared, and we caught 2 fish in the next 1.5hrs (both on the NW). The wind sprang up again, and so did the fish activity. Vital stats for the morning? Start 7:50 am, finish 1:50pm. 39 bream landed, between 15cm and 37cm. 3 favourite poppers lost to very good fish in the racks I have supplied a photo of the successful lures below. Tomorrow, I hope to use some new techniques on the SX40s. Have a great weekend gang! Hodgey Edited April 21, 2008 by Hodgey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveD Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Talk bout success with HB's and the popper especially wow. Sounds like a great session Top stuff mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft-on Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Dmp dmp dmp dmp dmp daaaaa! Hodgey Extracts again!! Well done PS:I got pumped by 2 big girls this morning on a beach, hit the surface like a bass. Woofta! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Great session Hodgey! The other day it was so calm that I didn't bother getting the poppers out as they only seem to work when there's a ripple or three. What is that top lure? Cheers, Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bream Mad Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Hodgey the popper master!! well done on a realy hot session !! cheers Kael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodgey Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Great session Hodgey! The other day it was so calm that I didn't bother getting the poppers out as they only seem to work when there's a ripple or three. What is that top lure? Cheers, Rob Rob Top lure is a Tiemco pencil, suggested by Bream Mad. (thanks Kael ) Hodgey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arpie Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 A B S O L U T E L Y A M A Z I N G!!! hodgey - you & Dene have it positively nailed!!! Old faithful does it again - those are amazing statistics!! Glad you nailed some with the pencils too, tho! We have so much weed floating in the lake just now, I haven't tried lures for a while now! We've had rain, rain & more rain since last Sunday (it managed a nice day on Sat for my friend's son's wedding here in Forster ...... in an outdoor church ....... so that was good!) Even yesterday & half of today was good ..... raining again as I type!! Cheerio for now Roberta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve07 Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 What a hot session hodgey,awesome fishin mate & great report too, mate i thought i was gettin plenty on bait lately but sounds like you guys are braining them on the lures even better. And good Fish up to 37cm,Top stuff!! Cheers mate Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Iceman Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Nice session Hodgey Fished the basin on sunday and couldnt get a looker on the poppers and ecogear px changed to a nw pencil and started to get some interest then changed to a squidgy lobby fished on the surface that did the trick Lobby was fished with the first two nodules cut off a 1/40th TT HWS inserted then a slow wind with rodtip held high to keep it on the surface soon as we saw a bowwave behind it stop and as the lure slowly sunk it was being smashed sometimes they would just come and belt it off the surface(note to self must remember to carry spare batteries for the camera) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 well done hodgey ! bream beware........ MR RB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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