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It’s time to report back the goings on of the fishing trip. From the moment we got there the bass were biting like crazy, but unfortunately none of the fish coming out were much over a kg. It was still one hell of a memorable camping and fishing trip. My one mate was suffering from a bit of “jetlag”, so he was not the smartest of fishermen. We were out near the dam wall where there is a rock pile sticking out the water, making a mini island. He insisted that we take him there because he wanted to fish from it a bit. So we cruised to the spot and he stood on the edge of the boat and then with a big stride tried to step onto a rock, but as his one foot was on the rock he started pushing the boat back performing an amazing split...then splash! he plunged into the dam. We laughed our ass off at him while he crawled onto his little island 
. We was wet from head to toe, it did seem to temporarily remove all symptoms of “jetlag”. Despite his little incident he still caught a few bass from his spot. We all caught allot but the consensus was that I was the winner, catching more fish of a larger size than they did, one could argue it was partly by default since the other two had slightly more “jetlag” than I, so I had a natural advantage.
The dam did seem to be awash with many fish due to all the fish from the dam above flowing in, but the bigger bass were eluding us. We tried to fish the little river, but when we got to the inlet we found a huge marsh running up the valley preventing us to access the stream from the dam.
All and all it was a very enjoyable fishing/camping trip, I hope to go back soon.
@Ian – The dam we fished in did not have its dam wall worked on, it was another dam further up the valley that got blasted, they building another huge dam wall for it. The dam we fished is not no18, but I know where that is, I have fished it before. I know of many dams in the area that have pure strain Florida Bass. My uncle stays at 7 oaks and back in the 80’s the parks board stocked his one small dam full off pure strain Florida fingerlings, then from there they started to stock many dams in the area. Some of the dams that don’t lie below Northern specie dams or are isolated otherwise still have pure strain Florida Bass. Other dams where they are inbred you can still see a strong Florida genetic influence mixed with northern species.
. We was wet from head to toe, it did seem to temporarily remove all symptoms of “jetlag”. Despite his little incident he still caught a few bass from his spot. We all caught allot but the consensus was that I was the winner, catching more fish of a larger size than they did, one could argue it was partly by default since the other two had slightly more “jetlag” than I, so I had a natural advantage.The dam did seem to be awash with many fish due to all the fish from the dam above flowing in, but the bigger bass were eluding us. We tried to fish the little river, but when we got to the inlet we found a huge marsh running up the valley preventing us to access the stream from the dam.
All and all it was a very enjoyable fishing/camping trip, I hope to go back soon.
@Ian – The dam we fished in did not have its dam wall worked on, it was another dam further up the valley that got blasted, they building another huge dam wall for it. The dam we fished is not no18, but I know where that is, I have fished it before. I know of many dams in the area that have pure strain Florida Bass. My uncle stays at 7 oaks and back in the 80’s the parks board stocked his one small dam full off pure strain Florida fingerlings, then from there they started to stock many dams in the area. Some of the dams that don’t lie below Northern specie dams or are isolated otherwise still have pure strain Florida Bass. Other dams where they are inbred you can still see a strong Florida genetic influence mixed with northern species.
A group of us also spent a night.
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