On Sunday Niroj and I went on an exploratory trip to the west of Victoria. We intended to find a few lakes that were close to each other and had good populations of redfin and trout. An early start saw us arrive at the first lake for the day at 7am.
We stuck it out there for most of the morning but despite the promising water and good reports of fish we didn’t manage to find any. A quick chat to a local gave us a lot of ideas for where to go next, eventually we had picked out a lake to try. The water had an incredibly fishy look to it but again we couldn’t tempt anything, ready to give up we started fishing our way back to the car. I changed over to a plastic and it didn’t take long for it to get engulfed close to the bank after a spirited fight I had a reddy in the net, not huge but a PB for me.
This gave us the motivation required to stick it out for for a while slowing working plastics, we were getting a few hits but nothing was hooking up. This happened for the rest of the afternoon, we could see the marks in the tails of the plastics but we couldn’t get a hit when we swapped over to hardbodies but a plastic worked through the same water would get hit on the tail for no hook up. We had an extremely frustrating days fishing but it was a successful reconnaissance trip.
Cheers Alex
