It's been a strange year in the Snowy system. We've had flood after flood culminating in a major flood early in November. Lots of dirty water and cold water temperatures exacerbated by the mammoth amounts of water that was being spilled from the Dam at Jindabyne.
It's only being back to normal over the last month or so and the fishing is getting back to its normal high standards.
Today I went old school. An old Jarvis walker Black Queen rod, a simple light weight running sinker rig, 6lb line and peeled prawns for bait.
The bream were in the mood to play today. A steady stream of good fish today from a fairly shallow stretch of water with plenty of snags.
Nothing under 30cm and the best fish measuring 43.5cm on the mat. (see photo). The second photo is the big girl with another nice fish of 38cm.
It was interesting to note that the fish wouldn't feed if the water was calm, but as soon as there was a wind ripple they were back on the chew, so if you needed to pee you waited until the breeze stopped!
