I was hoping to have a bit if a late spin session on the Mersey River with Strike&Hook member “Drawn” after he finished working in Devonport today. We were to meet up at Hoggs Bridge at Merseylea around 4:30 pm and hopefully get a couple of hours in before it became too dark. This time of year in Tassie it's dark just after 6:00 pm, so we'll get a quick session in & Andrew will get some idea of fishing a Tassie river in beautiful surrounds. Well I'm afraid it didn't happen for him because he couldn't get away from work until the job was finished so he couldn't make it in time. Not being allowed to have his mobile phone on due to working at the refinery he couldn't phone me until he had finished work. Not knowing this at the time I waited at Hoggs Bridge until 4:45 pm before deciding to have a quick 40 minute session then head off home.
- River still very low for this time of year..
The river was still very low here and also a little on the cloudy side due to work being done on a new replacement bridge further upstream. I entered the river around half a kilometer downstream from where I had parked the car and started working a nice shallow fast water run with the little well used gold Aglia. Using the cast and drift method, I think it was on the third or forth cast I was onto a solid brown which tossed the spinner as quick as it hit it. Not impressed at all and said a few harsh words to myself for using the old spinner that was really past it's use by date. I decided to stick with it until the end of this short session then start afresh with a new one on my next trip with this rod & reel.
- Looking upstream where I entered the river..
- Hooked & lost a trout here..
- One & only trout caught & released..
- Head shot of the brown..
- Man made stretch where the brown was taken..
- Looked like a bit of weather moving in..
Adrian
