Bonnie Doon 26/12/14

smoken · Post by **smoken** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:07 pm

I was visiting my folks for Xmas, who live near Mansfield, so going fishing at Bonnie Doon is always on the cards.

I started a couple of clicks from Kennedy's Point, walking along the shoreline, towards KP. Conditions were early twenties, with a slight breeze, and thankfully not too many boats out and about.

I started with a mud guts spinner lure, after speaking with one of the staff at the fishing and gaming shop in Mansfield. After two hours of fruitless spinning for yellow belly and Murray cod, I changed lures to the smaller rapala cd3 minnow, a lure I've had the most interest with on my previous visit to BD.

Around 4pm, I finally found some fish, a handful of tiny redfin. After a photo, each fish was returned to the lake.

If anyone had any suggestions on how to land some decent sized fish on bonnie soon, please pm me, as I have nfi.

Post by **davek** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:19 pm

Great place to be no matter how big the fish smoken, :thumbsup: cheers davo

Post by **drew 2** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:46 pm

Great report & pic's smoken :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Sounds like a nice day to be out

Rod Bender · Post by **Rod Bender** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:55 pm

Good report! Someone actually uses the Rapala 'minnow' pattern lure other than me!

smoken · Post by **smoken** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 7:03 pm

Rod Bender wrote:Good report! Someone actually uses the Rapala 'minnow' pattern lure other than me!

Not anymore... lost it to the snag gods this afternoon while walking around bonnie doon

dazwah · Post by **dazwah** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:46 pm

Bigger lure for bigger fish.

barra mick · Post by **barra mick** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:56 pm

Great report !

Rodbender I use that lure a fair bit for redies in the chanel around me.it works good.

Bm

TrevKing · Post by **TrevKing** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 9:13 pm

Still would've been fun no matter how small the fish were - in regards to getting bigger fish, try to locate some snags and stick to casting around them. Thats where the cod/yellas/big reddies would be hiding I reckon.

Post by **Boonanza** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 10:54 am

Great report & pics mate :thumbsup:

Cheers Steve

Gillo · Post by **Gillo** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:54 am

Brings back lots of memories for me, I used to fish these waters as a kid 20-25 years ago so I can't help you with anything recent! We used to fish it in a number of ways, scrub worms on the bottom with a tiny sinker acountered for many fish from Trout, Roach, Redfin and Carp. Although the biomass of Carp become so big that bottom fishing became pretty tough. I have caught my PB Redfin there from a boat in the trees a 5 and 1/4 pounder on a scrub worm.

We used to pick up trout spinning or under bubble float with mudeyes but generally on daybreak or fishining into the first hour of light. When we found a school of Redfin you can pick them up on anything from jigging to spinning to bait, although in my experience the bigger ones aren't in schools. Great place and back in the old days we used to pick up some very good fish in b/w the hoards of Roach and Carp.

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