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I was down in the Manton dam area today working, ended up having my lunch down there at the boat ramp.There was noone there when it got me thinking geez it looks good, very fishy looking indeed! Having never fished it I was wondering if it is fishing ok and worth the effort as the build up starts. The massive weedbed on the left of the ramp had me visualising a huge barra smashing my weedless rig being dragged through there.

nikoniko wrote:.....The massive weedbed on the left of the ramp had me visualising a huge barra smashing my weedless rig being dragged through there.

oh if only it was that easy down there............

Mate,

I've heard of some big fish getting caught there but normally on livies. I've seen some good pics of fish caught there too.

weedless frogs on spin gear worked like fishing for tuna. Cast along the weed edge. Shitt hook up rate but awsome boofs and bow waves. You still hook a few.

Caught a nice barra trolling in the ski area and dropped another around there as well.

Cheers

Sy

have fished out there a few time for only a couple of good hits a mate has landed a 63lb out of there though and seen pics of many other big fish

Some lads seem to have worked the place out...right time of year..right moon..etc. Been some good posts on here in prev years Nik. I can't get it wired...maybe too lazy to research or write a log. Its hit or miss and never got anything bigger than 80ish. I think the biggest ones sit deep in the middle but I get bored trolling so I do like Cuddlescooper said...work the edges of the lilly pads. Oh yea during the runnoff the feeder creeks can be mad...

I've trolled up a couple around 75 cm in the middle of the day over the last two years, but some of the boys really nail 'em at night.

I've had most success 5 nights before the full moon, always in the wee small hours of the morning.

My biggest barra from the dam is 120cm,104,106 had a good quality lure get peeled open like
bannana that was around 2-3 years ago now good togga numbers down there such a great place
to drop a line ,some of the biggest fresh water long tom iv'e ever seen 1m long great fun on a line
they go off like a frog on a sock

Just got back from a walk around dam wall missed the good run by 2 months I recon caught a 52cm bazz that had a gold bomber in its mouth extra bonus there looked like barra went over the wall as he looked pretty barked up when released just swam to bottom of pool an got the sads on heaps of bait around an seen some nice barras in ski side of wall hope they dont swim over the wall now as they will just become yabbie food
or croc bait

Has anyone got any barras or cherribin from the dam spillway this year??? Got any pics??