A quick report from my facebook page.
Made the long trek over to Lake Wendouree today. Conditions were close to ideal for fishing in, but far from what I look for when it comes to catching, but I wasn’t going to let this deter me. I peddled across to the first bank I wanted to work, set up my drift, stood up and begun casting. About 100m into my drift there was a gold flash behind the bent minnow, followed by another. This trout followed the bent right up to the kayak before returning to the weedy depths it emerged from. Right at the end of this drift another trout appeared behind the bent, took a swipe at it and missed. I briefly paused the retrieve, gave it a couple of sharp twitches and bang I was on, the momentum from the take launched the fish straight into the air and the moment it was back in the water it was jumping, this continual jumping continued for the rest of the fight, with the trout almost landing in the kayak at one point. Somehow the trebles stayed in and I netted the trout, the smallest brown I’ve seen at Wendouree so far but still a solid trout nonetheless.
I continued working various weed beds and channels between them but couldn’t elicit a strike. Finally I had grown tired of working the edges so I moved into the lanes to troll for a bit. This train of thought didn’t last long with the allure of another trout on surface teasing me. I had one last area I wanted to try and 3 casts into my drift my suspicions were confirmed, I hooked up to a large trout but the fight was incredibly short lived as the hooks popped out after one headshake. I finished fishing this drift but all I could manage was a half-hearted swipe at the bent. The end of my drift signalled the end of my trip too, I packed up and started the long trip home.
Cheers Alex
