Havent had a chance to get up there since before trout season opened. The last few years have been slow on the fishing front, very few fish and those that were about were under 20cm.
The season before the last 2 was a cracker, plenty of legal sized fish, a few times I caught the bag limit in an hour or less. Even managed to catch 5 fish without moving position on one small hole, only one that was legal size but still an achievement for a small stream you can jump across in places.
Started fishing at 11.30 today by 12.20 I had landed 5 little browns all in the 20-30cm range. Lost nearly as many and had plenty of smaller fish chase the lure without having a go. Fished for another hour and landed another 3 including a 35cm rainbow. Lost more than double that and again plenty of smaller fish chasing but not having a go at the lure.
For 2 hours fishing I ended up landing 8, lost over a dozen had around 20 more hit the lure without hooking up and I lost count of the number of smaller fish chasing.
Looks like it should be a good season, hopefully next year even better with them having put on a little more size.
Ended up bringing the last brown caught home as he had inhaled the lure and I doubt he would have survived my removing it the other 7 all swam happily away to be caught another day.
a couple of the little browns
