New direction for Avator BASS Electric Series

On the water, the BASS Electric series is all about catching your biggest two bass and bringing them to the weigh-in. Nothing has changed in that regard. It’s off the water that there’s been some big changes in the series.

2022 sponsor, BKK Hooks has moved aside to make way for the new BASS Electric series sponsor - Mercury Avator. These electric outboards will come on line later in 2023 and look like they’ll be a must-have take the reins of the series this year. Massive thanks to Adrian Wilson and Charles West who have carried the tour for the last few years.

Importantly, though, the BASS Electric events are going back to their roots. Entry fees are back to $20, cash on the day. Want to take your mate or kids? It’s a now a $40 exercise. Also, prefish bans have been removed and you only need to fish a single event to qualify for the Grand Final event. The Grand Final prize is an Avator-powered

Monagle (an angler who was too young to fish by himself at a previous event and who Adrian took under his wing).

Location: Wyaralong Dam. Here’s the event report.

Weighing in a colossal bag of 5.20kg for two massive Wyaralong brutes Toowoomba’s Casey Monagle took his first BASS Elelcric win.

“This is one for the record books for certain at this lake,” said Charles West.

Here is how Casey’s weekend played out.

“On pre-fish day Adrian and I decided to make quite a long run up the back of the dam, through the thick fog. After about an hour and a half of travel we stopped on a bank and fished some timber that led to a point.”

piece of kit for our many electric-only impoundments. We also have a new team running the events.

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“After a few casts parallel to the bank, I landed my first ever Wyaralong bass. It was 46cm fork at 2.4 kegs,” Casey said.

“We fished throughout the rest of the day, landing 5 bass, all before 9:30am, 4 of them being in that 40cm range and all fat fish. We left plenty of fish up there for tournament day, hoping we could come back to the giants. I can tell you, the trip

“We had been working quite deep sections of bank until we stumbled across a shallow point. Adrian could see fish on his Lowrance Active Target and side scan so he made a cast up shallow, towards the bank. He hooked up then told me to cast in the same place.”

“A couple cranks in and I had hooked up as well. After we got them both in, right next to the point we noticed this tree branch sticking up about 50mm out of the water. We both started punching casts next to it and sure enough we pulled some giants.”

“We were sitting in about 8ft casting right up into about 2-3ft of water. It was funny because I would hook a fish, land it, weigh it, cull one out if need be, then punch another cast in. I let the TN60 sink to the bottom, then slowly crank it back. I could feel super tiny bumps then slow right down and the fish would commit, fully swallowing the TN.”

“It was unlike anything we had seen before. We pulled 10kg+ worth of fish off this same tree. I was constantly catching 2kg+ fish and still not making any upgrades.”

“Right before we left, we made a stop back at the point we started on. I cast in let the TN sink and a giant ate it”.

“What a days fishing and especially in a tournament!” Indeed. A two-bass bag of 5.20kg will be hard to beat. But let’s all give it a go in 2023.