PEACOCK BASSIN'

Not the hardest of adversaries, the introduced

Peacock Bass however, does provide many a

thrill to budding lure anglers. Most flock to

the most populous region, the Northern Central

area of the Peninsular, to pursue these fish

and that's where we found ourselves

one fine morning not too long ago.

This time though, it was a strictly

landbased exercise. None the less the bass were

willing and made their presence felt from

the word go.

Beating them to it first was a little Giant Snakehead...

IMA Sasuke SS-95 proving its undoing...

Many small to medium PBs were taken on the

IMA Trip 85...

It proved itself to be a great lure to work above the

shallow weeds...

Another performer which worked well amongst the

sunken vegetation...

The IMA Gene 110, a shallow jerkbait with wild action...

Biggest Bass of the day, very handsome

well-proportioned fish...

It fell to the Gene 110 like the others before it...

Switched to lighter gear and scored a few

more good fish...

Imakatsu Riprizer did well to fool some fish in

shallow water...

It was almost too easy, with fish after fish

falling for the erratic twitched Riprizer

in White/Chartreuse...

Spotted some marauding PBs attacking a

pod of Toman fries, clipped on a PB-colour

IMA Sasuke and scored this 4kg+ fish...

Battle-scarred Sasuke for keepsakes...