Australian Bass

2012 Blue Fin Boats BASS Electric Convention- Qualifiers

Here's the list of qualifiers for the Blue Fin Boats BASS Electric Convention after the Maroon Dam event, 6th May.

Smak Lures BASS Pro Grand Final- Qualifiers

Here's the list of qualifers so far after the St Clair event.

2012 Blue Fin Boats BASS Electric AOY

Here's the AOY points race after the Danjerra round, 11/12th Feb. Pop back regularly to check out the battle for the 2012 AOY crown. Results current to the completition of the Maroon BASS Electric round, 6th May.

BASS Electric Rankings

Bassers, these rankings work much like the BASS PRO Rankings - they take into account your best 5 events each year for the past 2 years.

Current rankings after Maroon, 6th May.

Maroon BASS Electric- 6th May

53 Anglers gathered on a cool gusty morning for the Maroon Electric comp.
With the wind dropping off later in the morning the renowned surface bite would be a hard option.

Many anglers shot off to the rear of the dam while a few tried their surface luck close to the start point.

It was the same story over the dam with small fish being the only ones willing to commit to a bite.
Taking top place was Dave Trinder which was one of a few to secure a 2 fish limit.

Sufix Lake St Clair BASS Pro- Final Results & Story

Clancy Claims Maiden Win at St Clair

ABT BASS Pro regular Daniel Clancy continued the trend of first time winners in 2012, taking out the second round of the Smak Lures BASS Pro lures, the Sufix presented Lake St Clair Bass Pro.

Showing the consistency that defines a winner, Clancy caught his limit each session to compile a 6/6, 4.62 kg two-day limit and claim the win from a fast finishing Mark Lennox.

Fishing the Carrow Brook arm of the lake Clancy’s money bank was a 50 metre long, slow sloping bank with a small channel running through the centre of it.

Here he would position his boat on one side of the channel and cast across the channel before starting a slow rolling retrieve with a twitch imparted on every fifth turn of the handle.

Isis BASS Electric - 15th April

Mark Hits the Mark

The first Isis bass electric for the year attracted 33 anglers and while the fishing was tough some great bass were weighed in. Winning by over 250g was BCF Employee Mark Lockwood. Lockwoods lures of choice were shallow Jackall chubbies in bluegill and brown shrimp colour. Lockwood landed his first bass at about 6.20am and had bagged out by 8 am. He targetted edges around the dam and also the timber. The winning tackle was 6lb Fins windtamer braid and 8lb and 12 lb Yamatoyo leader spooled on a Daiwa Sol 2500 reel with matching rod.

Nipping at Marks heels was a new comer to the bass electric series, Jordan Renz. Jordan secured 2nd place using TT blades which he hopped through the middle of the dam. Renz landed two similar sized fish, catching the first at 10am and the second at 11am. The tackle used was a rod custom built by local rod building legend Tim Mulhall teamed with a Shimano Stradic Ci4 reel spooled with 4lb Berkley fireline braid and 10lb leader.

Out of the 33 anglers fishing the tournament 17 weighed in bass. A total of 29 bass were weighed in with an average weight of 0.931kg.

Chris Horne

Moogerah Dam BASS Electric 13th May - Date Change

Due to a event clash, Seqwater has requested ABT to change the date of the upcoming BASS Electric event at Moogerah Dam, 13th May. As such the tournament has been rescheduled to one week later on Sunday 20th May.

Danjeera BASS Electric- 31st/1st April

14 anglers fronted up to Danjera Dam to nearly perfect conditions for the two day event.

The dam has some what healed some what over the last weeks of rain to give us clearer water but the bass were being a bit tuff for some.

Taking out first place was Dave Mann his day one bag was taken with BJ CUSTOMBAITS in bass flash Pilly ¼ and day two soft plastics and Bassman Spinnerbaits in purple ½ though tight timber also big bass day one 0.860

Toonumbar BASS Electric Results & Story

34 Anglers were greeted to clear skies and light winds for the Toonumbar Bass Electric 2 day event. Session one on Saturday proved easy with allot of full bags caught. The 2nd session on Sunday morning sorted out the top runners, with the field struggling in a lot of places that had been pressured earlier.