Daylesford Lake report.

[Thomassssss]

Had a picnic with my partner and our daughter for the day off today at Daylesford lake, took a rod along in the hope I could find a bit of time for a fish. We settled next to the public BBQs just by the entrance when you head in from town. I thought I’d set up the rod holder and drown some worms so that I could still play with my daughter. Casted out near a bit of structure on the edge and left it for 10 or 15 minutes, no bites. Thought I’d try casting straight out in front of me and right away had a few nibbles. Pulled in three small reddies, a fish a cast, so I knew it was worth sticking at it to see if I could get onto a decent one. By this stage the 3 or 4 others that were flicking soft plastics started to edge in a bit closer to me, which was no worry as they were all respectful and left me my space. I cast back out and got a big hit and a quick hook up and I could tell straight away that this was a better fish. The fish put up a pretty solid fight with one good final run towards some structure but I turned him and got him in the net. Pretty solid 34cm reddie, just shy of 1.5 pounds. I baited up again and cast out and left it in so I could sit down for lunch, sure enough after 5 minutes more bites but this one spat the hook, felt like a decent fish. Over the next 10 or 15 minutes I got a few more small ones stealing the bait so I thought I’d give it a rest as it was my day to spend time with the family, and my partner was pretty pleased about the one we were taking home for dinner already. It was a good, fun and very short session, having only had a line in for about 40 minutes all up. No one using plastics caught anything in the time I was there, good day for the humble garden worm.

Tom.


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[Lightningx]

Nice Redfin mate :thumbsup:

[Thomassssss]

Nice Redfin mate :thumbsup:

Thanks lightning. It’s presently in the oven.

[smile0784]

Good report mate

[Lightningx]

Nice Redfin mate :thumbsup:

Thanks lightning. It’s presently in the oven.

Enjoy mate :thumbsup:

[meppstas]

That's one solid fish, well done.. all eaten by now I gather seeing as it was in the oven just after 5:00 pm...

cheers
Adrian

[Brownie]

Almost tempted to go back to bait fishing reading this! Well done.

[FlynnFisherman]

:thumbsup: Beauty!

[Jay375]

Nice day out

[Thomassssss]

Cheers everyone.