Upper Coliban Resivour 15/02/14

[Dick83]

Hi all, so I did end up going to fish the Resivours around Malmsbury and was happy that I did as it turned out to be a enjoyable morning nothing of great size caught but did mangage to hook 6 small Redfin biggest being around 20cm and what I believe to be a brown trout please correct me if wrong have attached a pic below. Reddies were caught on golden colour vibes and the trout on a pink tassie devil. Will definitely hit the Upper Coliban again with plenty of stories of 30cm plus Reddies being caught.
Cheers Dicky

[TrevKing]

Nice work.
Thats not a trout, I'm actually not sure what it is. Some kind of Galaxia maybe?

[Snapper Snatcher]

Very skinny chinook! Cool fish.

[Dick83]

Thanks TrevKing. I'm now certain it's not a brown trout. Will be interested to find out what exactly it is.

[Snapper Snatcher]

Its a chinnok salmon mate, that lake is stocked with them.

[Dick83]

This fish was actually caught in a small pool bout km down the river below the Coliban there was also a few small Reddies in the same pool that followed the tassie bout wouldn't take it.

[Dick83]

Thanks Snapper Snatcher

[barra mick]

Its a chinnok salmon mate, that lake is stocked with them.

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[DougieK]

Pink tassie devils seem to do an awful lot of damage don't they?

[Redhunter]

Looks like the skinniest chook I have ever seen. I know Lauriston was stocked with them, but didn't think Coliban was. Based on the amount of food in the system, it's a shock to see something like that. It may have been a fish that swam up the pools during the flood, which then got stuck before it was caught. Due to bloody irrigation, the 3 reservoirs (coliban, lauriston, malmsbury) seem to cop it pretty hard. For example,all 3 reservoirs were overflowing a few months back, and now are dropping rapidly, with Malmsbury now being at 30 odd percent. Shizen hausen management if you ask me.