Paterson River Bass – April 28
Trip Report left home 3.30am yeah I know, bloody early and bloody cold, drove up to twin servos to pick up Terry Kennedy, coffee time at Maccas, then up to Paterson river, webbers creek boat ramp, met the others ready to go, starting to get light, get the boat and off we go, heading up stream, fished between the bridges, flicking flies into any likely looking snag, hollows in the bank side vegetation, then Terry hooks up on his home made popper(sorry don’t have a photo of the popper), hooray we are on the board,
All the black paint came off, so he caught his bass on a white popper, we kept flicking poppers into the bank, then boof I got a fish on, wasn’t even looking at my fly when the fish hit, good fight on my old 4/5wt Xstream fly rod (first fly rod I ever purchased) Rio WF4F trout line, 8lb flouro leader straight through and my double barrel frog popper, the bass had wolfed the fly down, major surgery to remove, looking at getting barbless hooks for native fishing, bbq was awesome so good to catch up with everyone who attended, thank you what a great club we have I feel so privileged to be a member.
