Small creek gives up a few trout...
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Small creek gives up a few trout...
Small creek gives up a few trout..
Beautiful weather conditions had me up early this morning to give myself an hour to loosen up before I was right to head on over to a small creek for a spin session. I was in the water at 9:10 am and started off using the ghost brown lure in the low clear water. I soon had a follow from a small brown just as the sun started to touch the water in what was a very cool clear morning here. I moved on to a long stretch of water that had a few deep runs, it was here I had the best chance of catching a few trout. It only took a couple of minutes when I had a solid 510 gram brown take the lure and after a short battle it was it in the net photographed and back in the creek.. I had quite a few follows and hits and misses while fishing my way upstream, it was just under twenty minutes after catching the first brown I was onto my second one. This fish came darting out from under a small ledge close in on the river bank and just smashed the lure. It was a solid brown just like the first one, it too gave up a good fight before being led into the net.
With two nice browns being caught in such a short time I was pretty confident of catching a few more before I reach the narrow shallow water. Once I reached the shallows that would be the end of my fishing because the water is too low and clear for fishing, plus it will be in full sun as well. If the water level was around 4-6 inches higher I would normally continue on but that's not the case today as the water level is already a few inches lower since my last trip here. Any way I fished the rest of the deeper runs and picked up two more medium size browns before calling it a day. I was thinking about heading over to the Leven River once I got back to the car but thought better of it, my lower back & left hip wasn't all that good so I didn't want to make them any worse than what they were at the time. There's still plenty of days left to fish before the season closes.. cheers
Adrian
Beautiful weather conditions had me up early this morning to give myself an hour to loosen up before I was right to head on over to a small creek for a spin session. I was in the water at 9:10 am and started off using the ghost brown lure in the low clear water. I soon had a follow from a small brown just as the sun started to touch the water in what was a very cool clear morning here. I moved on to a long stretch of water that had a few deep runs, it was here I had the best chance of catching a few trout. It only took a couple of minutes when I had a solid 510 gram brown take the lure and after a short battle it was it in the net photographed and back in the creek.. I had quite a few follows and hits and misses while fishing my way upstream, it was just under twenty minutes after catching the first brown I was onto my second one. This fish came darting out from under a small ledge close in on the river bank and just smashed the lure. It was a solid brown just like the first one, it too gave up a good fight before being led into the net.
With two nice browns being caught in such a short time I was pretty confident of catching a few more before I reach the narrow shallow water. Once I reached the shallows that would be the end of my fishing because the water is too low and clear for fishing, plus it will be in full sun as well. If the water level was around 4-6 inches higher I would normally continue on but that's not the case today as the water level is already a few inches lower since my last trip here. Any way I fished the rest of the deeper runs and picked up two more medium size browns before calling it a day. I was thinking about heading over to the Leven River once I got back to the car but thought better of it, my lower back & left hip wasn't all that good so I didn't want to make them any worse than what they were at the time. There's still plenty of days left to fish before the season closes.. cheers
Adrian
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Re: Small creek gives up a few trout...
Nice mate, I love the small creeks........always a surprise at what you might catch.
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Re: Small creek gives up a few trout...
Excellent, beautiful looking place Tas. Hope you didn't use a flash on the fungi, you may have frightened them into extinction!
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Re: Small creek gives up a few trout...
That's spot on, that's one of the reasons I love to give them a go too.. always worth giving them a go that's for sure... :water:Stumpjumper wrote:Nice mate, I love the small creeks........always a surprise at what you might catch.
No Brownie never used the flash mate..
cheers
Adrian
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Re: Small creek gives up a few trout...
Nice fishing there ......thats a healthy looking brown
Must be a fair bit off tucker in the streams
Bm
Must be a fair bit off tucker in the streams
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Re: Small creek gives up a few trout...
I love fishing small streams too, and they often get overlooked. The average sized fish might be smaller than those in the larger streams but now and then you pick up a thumping great fish.
That undercut bank is just a classic place for a trout to lurk - great pic!
Best Wishes
Truedogz
That undercut bank is just a classic place for a trout to lurk - great pic!
Best Wishes
Truedogz
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Re: Small creek gives up a few trout...
Sweet, gotta keep the tree huggers happy mate.meppstas wrote:That's spot on, that's one of the reasons I love to give them a go too.. always worth giving them a go that's for sure... :water:Stumpjumper wrote:Nice mate, I love the small creeks........always a surprise at what you might catch.
No Brownie never used the flash mate..
cheers
Adrian
Love the reports mate, keep em up. :a_goodjob: