Bass Lodge 2013

Australian Bass - The little Aussie battler.

Australian Bass hold a special place in the hearts of freshwater anglers the country over. Scouring google maps for new locations, hiking remote streams, casting surface lures well into the night, it's all part of the charm of the species. Here Chris Baty details a recent trip to the Bass Lodge on the Macleay river for another crack at one of his favourite fish

Out of the dark - Cod on Surface Lures

Surface fishing for Cod is a great way to spend a warm balmy evening!

It's late afternoon, the temperature's up, the barometer on the rise. Kookaburras laugh in the trees above and roos jumped across the track on your walk down to the river. This is fishing Australian rivers, this is a big part of why we do it..........but it's not the best part.

Slow Rollin' Trout.

I’d become complacent, hadn’t had so much as a tap, a follow or a swirl on the previous four lures and my motivation was starting to fade. It was an hour off dusk and the rain was starting to build. I wasn’t expecting much from the last lure change but mid retrieve on the very first cast the lure got crunched and I came tight to an angry Great Lake brown trout. The fight was short and sweet and moments later my first lure caught Tassie trout was being photographed by one very happy angler.