Australian Bass

Outstanding Optimax Repower Offer- Great Offer & Save on Fuel!

It's just an outstanding offer - a great price for a great engine which will deliver brilliant fuel economy.

For a strictly limited time, Australia's boat owners can re-power to a 135, 115 or 90hp OptiMax outboard engine for as little as $49* a week.

On top of that, there are huge fuel savings to be had with OptiMax's fuel injection technology providing 45% better fuel economy than a traditional 2-stroke outboard. All OptiMax engines come with the Exclusive SmartCraft Digital engine management system and gauges, and have the security of a 3+2=5 year factory backed warranty.

Skeeter BASS Pro Grand Final Boater Results & Story

The 2008 BASS Pro AOY winner, Carl Jocumsen, claimed the ultimate prize in Australian tournament BASS fishing by winning the 2008 Skeeter BASS Pro Grand Final. He made a clean sweep of the XOS trophies, and took away the Skeeter Trip-of-a-Lifetime prize, $5000 spending money from River City Marine Brisbane and a confirmed place on the Australian Fishing Championships.

Humminbird BASS Megabucks Final Results & Story

Evinrude E-Tec Motors to Victory in Humminbird BASS MegaBucks

Team Evinrude E-Tec's Mike Connolly and Simon Barkhuizen showed a clean pair of heals, 12/12, 12.6kg, eclipsing the gathered 34 team field at the 2008 Humminbird BASS MegaBucks, Lake Glenbawn 6/7th October.

Hot on their heals and 830 grams in arrears was Team G.Loomis/ Sunline's Dave Young and Chris Galligan, 12/12, 11.70kg.

2008 Skeeter Owners' Tournament

The Skeeter Boats Owners' Tournament is billed as one of the best weekends on our tournament calendar here in Australia and once again this year it did not disappoint.

The weekend started off on Friday night with a bbq, some drinks and the briefing that outlined the events for the weekend. The highlight of the evening was Berkley Pro Staff member Andrew Homann outlining how to catch the bass of Lake Glenbawn using the sponsors products that were included in the welcome bag, this included Atomic, Berkley, and Squidgy plastics along with jigheads from Nitro. This informative discussion was welcomed by entrants that had never caught a bass before.

Motorguide BASS Electric Convention - Final Results & Story

After a long absence the ABT BASS Tour returned to the Burnett Valley's Bjelke Petersen Dam for the final event of the 2008 MotorGuide BASS Electric Series, the MotorGuide BASS Electric Convention, 27/28th September.

54 anglers from 23 qualifying rounds throughout the year made the journey to the drought influenced impoundment, with two angling sessions, Friday night trivia quiz and Saturday afternoon casting testing anglers' multitude of skills.

MotorGuide BASS Electric- Wivenhoe 21st September

The last remaining BASS Electric Convention berths were hotly contested at the final qualifying round of the year held at Lake Wivenhoe, 21st September.

Chris Eldred claimed the final Wivenhoe bragging rights for the year, securing first place and a ticket to the MotorGuide BASS Electric Convention this coming weekend (27/28th September).

Skeeter & Berkley Bonus

With Team Berkley Anglers and Skeeter Owners Winning the last 3 ABT BREAM Super Series Events, Skeeter Australia now gives YOU the opportunity to join in the success of Anglers like Mark Mangold, Andrew Homann and Chris Britton.

All Skeeter boats purchased in September and October 2008 will receive $500msrp of Pure Fishing Tackle FREE on delivery of their boat which can include tournament winning fishing tackle from Berkley, Berkley Gulp, Nitro Jigheads, Pflueger, Abu Garcia.

MacDonald Elec Results 7 Sept

Ten boats and 17 anglers attended the second electric comp at Lake Macdonald on Sunday 7th sept. Fishing was as hard as expected with the lake still recovering from the massive fish loss during the floods of last year. Many undersized fish were caught and released, while seven legal fish were brought in to be weighed.

Berkley Hollowbelly- 3" version launched

The Berkley Hollowbelly baits in 4 inch and 6 inch sizes have certainly created interest in the tropical impoundment fisheries. Big barra are falling to them as are more southern species like jewfish, kingfish, trevally, salmon and tailor.

Now, a little 3 inch version is here and for the estuary angler intent on bream, flathead, jacks, trevally and even the freshwater species, bass and trout, this new bait will be real winner and should be in every soft plastic arsenal.

Moogerah BASS Electric- 31st August

With 20-25 knot North Easterly winds, the already tough Lake Moogerah outsmarted 47 Anglers during the weekends Bass Electric. No legal fish made the scales, equalling a lucky draw for the prizes.