Fishing healesville area

[aussie_fisho]

Heading up around healesville area on Saturday, and having never fished around there before I'm not sure on where to fish first of all and secondly what I can catch (seeing as its closed season for trout). Any advice greatly appreciated, cheers aussie

[rick_mac]

Hi Aussie fisho don lake healesville is a good place to start there a few different species in there and the
Lake has good access otherwise you could try the yarra there's a bridge you cross driving along maroondah
Highway just before you drive in too healesville there a open in on the right where you can park and there is good access too the river i have had preety good luck there but as fishing is its always hit and miss anywhere you go there's also
A lot of small creeks around healesville and badger creek that are worth a try I find the best way is to look on Google maps/earth and use streeview to find good spots along the river and creeks also I he had luck there where two creeks meet in the slow water fishing under a float but it is always hit and miss the more water covered the more chance you have hope this helps in anyway good luck look forward to your report

[rick_mac]

http://www.troutfishing.net.au/healesvi ... ishing.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; there's is also a few spots marked on this map that can be really productive especially were the grace burn creek meets the watts rivers and it could b worth exploring up the watts river or the grace burn

[aussie_fisho]

Thanks for the advice rick, will definitely give them a go.

[aussie_fisho]

Anyone know the best area to access the watts river or surrounding creeks in healesville.

[rick_mac]

The best across to the watts river is of myers creek road and river st healesville gives best access to good fishing on the watts river

[Rod Bender]

Is some part of the Watts River closed to fishing....Melbourne water catchment or something? If someone knows without having to look it up I would appreciate it if you could post the details here.
cheers
Jim

[muzza43]

As far as I know, the watts river is closed to all fishing above the Maroondah reservoir. Cheers, muzza43.

[spudtrans]

great site rick_mack
thanks for putting that link up, lots of info for many areas
cheers :a_goodjob:

[rick_mac]

No worries spudtrans it has heaps of info about lot ofs Melbourne's rivers and surrounding tributaries hopefully it helps
Some members find new fishing holes and hopefully a few good reports come of the maps
Im still a new member to this site and in the short time ive picked up some good info so I thought I'd try and put some back in