Great decision to chase trout....
- Very scenic stretch of water..
- My starting point..
I went with the Daiwa ghost brown for starters and it did take a some time before I had my first take on it. This was a solid fish too and I'm thinking it's a good solid brown until I saw it leap from the river only to see it was a rainbow trout. Now I have never caught or even seen a rainbow trout in this river until today, so I want this fish to stay hooked. After a minute of playing this fish it was finally in the landing net. This was a first for me here, it was in top condition and a beautifully coloured fish. A quick photo then spending a little time making sure it was okay for release, it was on it's way. This was a great start to the session and I'm hoping it will continue with a few more trout being caught & released over the next couple of hours. I had only moved some ten meters upstream when I had another trout take the little ghost brown lure, not a big fish but a nice 360 gram brown. Two casts later I had another solid take but missed setting the hooks with that fish. It was actually a smash and grab by the trout, they either stick or they're gone and not seen again.
- It was on with the little Daiwa ghost brown..
- My first ever rainbow caught here..
- Wild Wilmot River brown..
It was pretty slow going over the next two stretches of river until I came to a long slow flowing stretch of water. It was here I had several follows from some medium size browns that just sat back from the lure, they were non takers. A couple more casts and I had trout number three hooked, netted, photographed then back in the river, it was a nice 390 gram fish.
- Plump brown trout.
That was the last sign of a trout until I had rounded a bend in the river and moved into a very long stretch of river that had a mix of fast water and some long medium flowing runs. This stretch of river has produced a quite a few fish on past trips here early in the season, I'm very confident it will again today. I went for another change of lure for this stretch of river, it was on with a gold/black Rapala f3 lure, one that's worked well on the trout in tannin water before. A great choice of lure it was, it only took three casts up and across the fast water with a slow retrieve when I had trout number four on the line. This fish gave a good run for the money too as it made several runs back and forth in this fast water before it finally tired and was in the net. It was the best trout so far for the session, a nice 610 gram well conditioned brown. This long stretch of river that I fished for the next hour and a half I caught and released another five nice browns from six hook ups. The decision to head over to the Wilmot River for a few hours spin fishing turned out to be a good one..
- Long run of fast & medium flowing water..
- best trout of the session...
- Another brown falls to the gold/black Rapala f3
- Looking back to where I had just fished...
Adrian
