Tommy Wood Fishing

Fun day out on the water chasing a few Aussie Bass and the world best by-catch! Old Saratoga are never a bad thing when you run into a couple! Ended up with 30-40 Bass which was good fun with the Old Boy, a lot of little ones but definitely found some decent ones for Lake Borumba

How good are these little pocket rockets of leader! The xbraid_australia -G leader comes in 30m spools with specific breaking strains so you can throw a heap into your pocket if you aren’t sure what size you’re going to need. Also being a thinner fluorocarbon than others on the market, don’t be afraid to go up in breaking strain!

Golden hour Brown Trout on the Samaki Stream 🏔️

Man what a first day on the water, landed about 24 between the three of and jump plenty more off! Super excited to get out tomorrow and try find a rainbow trout! All the different colours blow your mind, all different variations 🏔️

Well most of you guessed GT popping but it’s probably a little cold down here for them… We just landed in the cold city Canberra and we are headed to the Snowy Mountains! 🏔️

Spending 4 days up on the mountain chasing bog Brown and Rainbow Trout during the start of the spawn run in Lake Eucumbene! On our drive to the cabin then we are on the water tomorrow

Managed to snag a 3 way seat on the last flight, cannot complain ✈️

I get excited when I start packing the Samaki Rod Case! Been planning this trip with my mate Nathan for too long now and man I’m excited to learn some new stuff! ✈️

Can you guess what fish we are targeting?
TIP: Only taking Spinning rods

Welcome to mondy hey! Heading out today with Brendon who bought the raffle ticket for the .bass last year to fish do a day! Super keen to get out there and hopefully get the boys onto a few big ones

Sun setting, cold beers and barra on board, does it get any better? 🍻

Fun couple days with the boys putting the new C12 prototypes to the test!

Little recap on the gear that got us the 2nd place finish at Lake Awoonga! The fish were deep, around 30-35ft, so we needed to get to em quick and a jig head minnow was definitely the move in this situation.

We found we had to be super subtle during the entire retrieve as we noticed a few times that even the ‘click’ of the bail arm would completely spook the fish… we fished the new Samaki C12 701SMH as I think it’s one of the best rods on the market for this technique! It’s also one of the most versatile rods in the range, you can pretty much do anything from light Snapper fishing with plastics, to burning frogs in the fresh for Barra and Jack fishing up the creek 🪄

Using a spinning rod was crucial for getting this lighter head down quick! We could’ve went a heavier weight jig head but found we needed to almost hang the minnow in front of the fish to get a reaction.

Used a variety of jig heads, however it was the stinger that did the work, 90% of our fish were hooked with the YS81 #2 hanging off the chin. Stops the bait from rolling, but with the fish being shut down I think it only helped keeping a tight subtle action.

Already itching for the next one! We had massive fomo while watching everyone smash it at Mondy!

Well we got the job done on day 1!! We had an epic night on the water and so keen to get back out tonight and hopefully get into them again!

We are only 400grams in front of team Flukamundi and 3kgs in front of Gladstone Sports & Fly Fishing so it’s tight at the top!

Make sure to follow the link on the Australian Bass Tournaments website to follow the LIVE scoreboard