Great spin session with 22 trout Caught...
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 5:18 pm
Headed off around 8:00 am for a spin session in the river this morning only to find the river was running a little on the high side and it wasn't safe enough for me to cross over. That's what I get for not checking the river levels before I left home. I decided i would head on up to the upper reaches of it where I knew it was safe enough to hop in and wade. I headed to one of my favorite areas only to find someone else already in the river fishing which meant I had to fish elsewhere. I decided on fishing another long wide stretch of river that didn't fish all that well the last time I fished it. The river there was running at medium height and just like the sky it was on the cloudy side which I didn't mind all that much. A strong Northerly was forecast for later in the day so I had to hurry up and get my act together.
I kicked the session off with the Mepps #1 Aglia Furia and things were a little slow at the start when I hooked and lost the first two trout which didn't impress me.Then it all started to fall into place as i started getting quite a few hook ups and they were all making it to the net. Some were small browns and others were in the medium size range. Not only that I also manged to catch & release four rainbows with two of them going just over the 400 gram mark. I did have one beautiful rainbow in the 500 gram range give me merry hell before it straightened the treble causing me to lose it.(the fish that is). I called it a day at 1.40pm when the Northerly hit and started howling straight down the river at around 30 kph. It was one of my best spin sessions of the trout season by far with 18 browns & 4 rainbows being caught and released from 28 hook ups.
It was a session I was not expecting to happen either. I was happy when I had caught six trout early on & wasn't expecting to catch as many as I did..I did have to put on a new Aglia Furia after breaking the treble hook, that was the only downfall on the day. The Okuma 6'6'' L/Wt 1-3 kg trout rod did it's job really well too. I would liked to have caught two more trout as that would have put me on two hundred for the season. I'm still well down for the same time last season when I was on 309 trout. Actually on the 30th Nov last season I fished the upper reaches of this river for 27 browns & 1 rainbow.. Any way it was still a great spin session today..
cheers
Adrian
- Not safe enough to cross here today..
- Started off here..
- Solid brown..
- Followed by another nice brown..
- Three browns caught here..
- Nice rainbow, one of four caught & released.
- The last rainbow of the day..
- Aglia Furia catches another solid brown..
- Now for the long walk back to the car..
Adrian
Before I left this morning I put five heat patches on my lower back & hips & two on my right shoulder, then got the wife to rub Tiger Balm into my upper back between the shoulder blades, all this to get in a river each time I go trout fishing. Once there I chewed on a couple of Panamax as well.. Got through the four hours feeling quite good.. :banana: