After a quick stop at Alexandra to pick up some worms, we had arrived at the Rubicon. Jason and I rigged up with a size 8 bait holder hook with a small splitshot crimped about 30cm above the hook. Jason, having fished the river a lot before, recommended that we bypass a lot of the really fast flowing water as it would be too hard to keep the lightly weighted baits in the strike zone long enough and go straight to a spot he knows produces fish...
after a bit of a leisurely walk, we eventually arrive at the stretch of river Jason was talking about, and it was beautiful! he stays and fishes this run of river, while i go a couple of meters downstream and fish another good looking stretch. after a few casts of nothing, I hear Jason scream "I'M ON I'M ON!" as loud as he could, i bolt up the river to where he was and when I arrive i see Jason lifting up a lovely brown trout!
- Beautiful 38cm Brown Trout
Again, I go back to my hole and drift my worm in the current, and soon enough, I was on!
- Small Brown
With both of our stretches of river not producing, we prospect further up river in hope of some nice stretches. We found a few that look likely to produce fish but our efforts were to no avail. We then worked our way back down the way we came and fished the stretches that we had fished before, we we eventually came back to the spot where i got my little brown earlier and a few casts later i was on!
- Another Little Brown
I had a bit of a snooze in the car as I was pretty wrecked, but we soon arrived at Yea. We gutted and gilled Jasons trout for weigh in. His trout went 450 grams gutted so it was a pretty solid fish. Another bloke had 2 really good trout, roughly 900 grams gutted and gilled and another bloke had a really good bag of redoes, one going 1kg on the dot gutted and gilled. overall, Jason came 5th which is a pretty good effort. We then said our goodbyes and jumped back into the car where i slept the whole way home..
Fish Count:
Jason - 1 Brown Trout @ 38cm
Sam (me) 2 Brown trout @ 10cm
Pedro - 0
Cheers Sam
