Still needing three more trout before the 2016/17 season closes this coming Sunday I thought I'd better go and hop in the river river to see if I can pick up the three trout required to reach my seasons target. We had some very good rains a few days ago so the rivers should be flowing really well now and the trout will certainly be out and about as well. This time of year they are quite aggressive and will take just about any type of spinner or lure thrown at them. Once at the river and having a thirty minute chat with a landowner I was soon in the river flicking the little spinner around. Today I started off with a Mepps #00 gold Aglia Mouche Noire as I feel this will do well in the tannin coloured water that I'm fishing. It only took two casts before I had my first fish on, like I have been doing lately I lost it once it leaped from the river.
- Dark tannin waters..
- Aglia Mouche & wild brown trout
- Nice brown taken here.
- another nice brown..
- 599 for the season..
- Number 600 is in the net..
Now I can fish on without the pressure of catching a trout and that's what I did. I fished another six stretches of river, some were tight narrow runs whereas a couple of others were a little wider and more open. All bar one of those areas gave up trout. I caught and released another eight beautiful well conditioned wild browns with the best fish going 670 grams. The last four browns where taken on a gold #00 Aglia Mouche Rouge spinner which isn't all that different to the Noire, the one I was using for most of the session. The only difference is the fly on the treble hook is brown with a red tag and not black with red tag, not that the fly colours had anything to do with catching the trout in such dark tannin water any way. It was the gold blade & the vibration of it that attracted them to it. Then it was just a matter of working the spinner in a way to get them to take it. I did hook and lose two other browns while fishing those last few runs. In all it was a good session and one that finished up in very cold conditions once the sun started to set at 5:20pm. This little river that flows into the Leven River in the Gunns Plains area certainly holds some trout at this time f year and is well worth the 50 minute drive to get there.
- 670 grams of muscle,,
- The eleventh trout of the day..
Adrian
