Basstastic Extreme Timed Bass Competition

12th and 13th December 2009 at Borumba, Qld.

Well what a great weekend! This was the last competition for Bass for the year. There were 6 individual comps. of 2 hours each. Lots of pressure!

My Dad, James and I haven't had the opportunity to fish together much this year so we were looking forward to it.

The first two sessions we used blades and grubs. Fishing was difficult and there were not too many fish weighed in. Only two anglers got their bag.

Half way through the second session I tied on a new MF50 and decided to try this. This caught us a few under sized bass which at least alerted us to the fact that the fish were attracted to this new lure.

I then set up three different rods with different coloured MF50's and Dad stuck to the Blades. Half way through the third session Dad said "You had better give me one too." By this time I had caught about 15 fish. After I won that session Dad won the next using the MF50's.

In the fifth session we found a patch of fish in nice, clean, open water at about 35 ft. So we both went to our 2 and 3 pound Berkely Fireline with six pound Vanish leader. By using this lighter line we new that the lure would have a better action and we would have a lot more fun. The fishing just got better catching over 30 more fish between us for the session.

For the sixth session the fish shut down and we had to go and find another patch. With ten minutes to go the sounder lit up and I nailed two legals in two casts on MF 50's, then headed to the finish line. A very successful weekend - 3 firsts, 2 seconds, 2 thirds and a fourth.

With confidence in the MF50 lures we decided to go back to Borumba two days later. The previous night I thought I'd try a few modifications on one MF50. I took off the back treble and replaced it with a little, fine skirt and a couple of floating stinger hooks. This I thought would improve the hook up rates as we were getting a lot more hits than hookups. We caught about 20 bass that morning and 10 fat yellowbelly. The yellow belly seemed to take a liking to the modified MF50.

Lake Macdonald is only ten minutes away and has been fishing well of late. Can't wait to get on the water and an MF50 in it!

Thanks for sending us up the lures John, they made us look good.

Merry Xmas to all!

Happy Fishing!

Cheers,

Callum Munro.




Callum is a Purefishing Junior Pro angler, based in Qld.
Callum has successfully competed in Bass and Barra tournaments during 09.
Look for more of Callum's reports in 2010.