Article & Images by Graham Weakley
We decided it was run and gun time, which is a comically relative thing when you are talking an ancient 15HP outboard ferrying two large frame locals across a vast expanse of freshwater.
Eventually we arrived at a very rocky looking drop off and began peppering it with new offerings. I had switched to a nail weighted wacky Senko and having had two botched takes the whole day, was delighted to see my line bounce to the right on the drop as I struck hard into a strong and feisty 2.1kg model. At last I felt loved again but it was short lived as Murray wasted no time in boating a really chunky 2.6 on a Texas Zoom speed craw.
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This boy had Tyson’s shoulders and a mean disposition and looked like a big kid doing the high jump on his numerous attempts to spit the hook. The very next cast saw a 1.5kg to me and, of course, a 1.9kg to him. This was the honey hole you hear mentioned so often and the fish could not get enough. It was manic action, which followed the pattern of me hooking and losing fish after fish with the machine just putting them in the boat. We stopped counting at 11 fish all to him, when the action finally died off.
I’m really not in it for the numbers, which is easy to say when you have been good and properly smoked, but our 5 biggest fish clocked in as follows: 2.6, 2.1, 1.9, 1.6,1.55, so a 9.75kg bag all in the space of 20 minutes . Now that’s a purple patch!
Bass Digest/January, 2014