Karkarook today

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Karkarook today

Post by croe04 » Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:24 pm

Gday

Was at karkarook from 11:00-1:30 today, used a mix of pink powerbait and spinners/plastics. Managed to grab a decent 28 cm rainbow on powerbait in our last half hour there. As per usual, powerbait was falling off the hook just about every cast and after a while a bunch of fish came pretty close to the shore and were eating the chunks off of the surface, then one finally scoffed my bait not long afterwards.

Heaps of people were around but it looked like no one was catching anything except for us. Next time i'm down there i might give my flies a go since they were eating from the surface.

Also, i heard that it got stocked recently with yellowbelly and cod? has anybody managed to get any from there?
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Re: Karkarook today

Post by Lightningx » Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:31 pm

Nice trout mate.
I haven’t been there for ages. Might have to go sometime soon :)

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Re: Karkarook today

Post by matari » Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:38 pm

seen one person get a cod out of there, shredded up fins don't think they will last very long in there, nice trout though!

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Re: Karkarook today

Post by sasquatch972 » Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:11 pm

Might have to start going back there again, used to catch heaps with lures about 5 years ago.

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Re: Karkarook today

Post by Sebb » Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:18 pm

Used to be good with plenty of redfin and trouts, but the last few years it's been hammered by a lot of people.
Used to catch trouts and redfins on fly easily.
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Re: Karkarook today

Post by croe04 » Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:36 pm

Seb85 wrote:
Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:18 pm
Used to be good with plenty of redfin and trouts, but the last few years it's been hammered by a lot of people.
Used to catch trouts and redfins on fly easily.
A few years ago i heard a lot about all the reddies in karkarook. Never seen anyone catch any. These days the trout only like powerbait and you'd be lucky to get a perch on a plastic or something, and usually the stocked trout get cleaned up by everyone in a couple weeks. its a shame because its conveniently close.

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Re: Karkarook today

Post by croe04 » Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:38 pm

sasquatch972 wrote:
Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:11 pm
Might have to start going back there again, used to catch heaps with lures about 5 years ago.
If your trying to catch trout i'd get in there quick because the stocked ones get cleaned up in a few weeks. I didn't get so much as a tap on my lures so I think they're just not interested.

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Re: Karkarook today

Post by Sebb » Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:50 pm

Yeah, shame. Small lake yet people are bagging it, taking them home. Those cods and yellowbellies wont last long there.
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Re: Karkarook today

Post by dazz999 » Mon Apr 22, 2019 6:42 pm

croe04 wrote:
Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:36 pm
Seb85 wrote:
Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:18 pm
Used to be good with plenty of redfin and trouts, but the last few years it's been hammered by a lot of people.
Used to catch trouts and redfins on fly easily.
A few years ago i heard a lot about all the reddies in karkarook. Never seen anyone catch any. These days the trout only like powerbait and you'd be lucky to get a perch on a plastic or something, and usually the stocked trout get cleaned up by everyone in a couple weeks. its a shame because its conveniently close.
nope sorry dude have not seriously fished there for about ten year,s went three days ago just to practice cast 40grm lure,s for distance only guy fishing had maggot,s and a small burley cage attached to the mainline caught trout every ten minutes best way to catch them if your want to use powerbait very small treble hook

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Re: Karkarook today

Post by dazz999 » Mon Apr 22, 2019 6:43 pm

also have caught carp tench and redfin on maggot,s there

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