Twelve trout before the weather set in...

[meppstas]

Twelve trout before the weather set in.. 18-9-17

With another change on the way I left for the river earlier than I normally would at this time of year, with 60-70 kph winds & rain forecast I thought it best to hit the river (on priv. property) early. Once there I could see it was running higher than normal so I'm thinking I may be in for a tough time on the water today. This trip I'm using a brand new 5'6'' Daiwa Presso ULS spin rod coupled with a new Daiwa 16 crest reel spooled with 98 meters of 4 lb clear Kast King copolymer line and a new #00 gold Aglia.. I wanted to try the short rod out today as a test run for when I head back to some of the small tight streams at a later date. The first thirty minutes of fishing was fairly quiet before I had my first small brown in the net. This little 240 gram brown was a real bright silver colour which was surprising given the water was a dark tannin colour. It may well have come out of a stocked farm dam that's spilling over and hasn't got a mesh grid on it. The next run there wasn't any signs of a fish, but the next one gave up two nice browns.

First brown picked up here..

One very silver brown trout, rare for this tannin river..

All quiet again over the next twenty minutes before I was onto a nice size brown, a well conditioned 510 gram fish. After that fish the next couple of trout I saw just sat behind the spinner then turned and moved away. It was time to change to the gold/black F3 Rapala, a lure that has picked up a few fish lately. That lure picked up one brown on the first take then lost the next three browns which made for another change of lure. It was on with the Daiwa Yoguri ghost brown, a lure that has produced a lot of hook ups in this river. It wasn't all that long before this little lure had it's first hook up, three casts later another brown took it. The wind had picked up and there were a few spots of rain hitting the water, the change isn't that far off now. I upped the pace of my fishing and bypassed several shallow runs to concentrate on the deeper ones.

A couple of brown caught here..

Solid brown..

Great colours in this trout.

Plenty of flow in the river..

Well conditioned brown..

I caught another five browns on the little ghost brown before the wind started gusting all the more, it was time to call it quits for the morning. Twelve nice wild river browns in a two and a half hour session was more than I had expected when I first reached the river. It was a good decision to quit when I did, the rain set in as I headed for home and it hasn't stopped since, neither has the wind.

Two more taken here..

Close up of brown & ghost brown lure..

Last trout of the day..

cheers
Adrian

[Danny2001]

Great report mate some very good trout as well!

[russellh2]

Adrian - Great report as usual - looking forward to catching up in Feb next year. Have you had a chance to try the Tylo's yet.

[Sinsemilla]

Good work and great photos as always!

Cheers, Anth

[meppstas]

Adrian - Great report as usual - looking forward to catching up in Feb next year. Have you had a chance to try the Tylo's yet.

Not yet Russell, the larger rivers haven't dropped all that much of late in fact just when they're about right it bloody well rains and up to buggery they go again.. hopefully it will settle down soon.. I want to give them a go in the lower reaches of the Mersey River ASAP.. :thumbsup:
Look forward to catching up too..

cheers
Adrian

[Marty.A]

Back to your best Adrian as per usual :cheers:

[meppstas]

Back to your best Adrian as per usual :cheers:

Thanks Marty, yes pretty satisfied with 37 trout in the past three trips now.. :super:
Let's hope it keeps up..

cheers
Adrian

[happyfriggincamper]

Killing it as usual on the fishing and write-up, but not killing the trout (as usual)! Awesome stuff mate

[happyfriggincamper]

Was there much adaptation required on your casting method with the shorter rod?

[Lightningx]

Sounds like a great session Adrian! Well done :thumbsup: