North Australian FISH FINDER TM forums

Went out to lake bennett for A weekend and absoloutley smashed the sootys! I have worked out how to catch them and where to catch them as well. The trick is to canoe up to the end of all the pontoons and slowly drift down casting a tiny hook and some steak with a bubble float about 20-30 cm up in front or next to each pontoon. Some times the bait gets smashed strait away but if nothing happens for a minute or so, it's time to move on. Use light gear- light line, small eggbeater reels and light rods.
Have fun. Cheers llewyn

I averaged about 15 good sootys a day but didnt have a camera!

How'd you go with the cherrabin pots, any luck? What did you end up using for bait?

Sharkbait. I put cherabin pots out in lots of different places but the only sucsessful pot was next to that big dead tree that people jump off, i was using dog buiscuits and caught one big beauty but i got no barra from it

Hi Llewyn do you have anymore times for lake Bennett

hmmmm great place will have to give it a go with the boy

Mates fish the upper Finniss for them with their kids regularly using unweighted baits prawn,chicken, steak all with 3m of 12lb leader will clean up

best one I've caught was 55cm on a cd9 down the reynolds with 45lb leader n 20lb fireline casting into deep snags for barra this one came off a snagpile with 1/2 a wallaby on it from a croc kill and 30 plus black bream ripping into it...

Sight fishing is the go 50mm poppers will do well too but you need a bream rod to get any distance out of your casts

Think 4kg on 6 ft spin