G’DAY fishos. As you’d expect, temperatures are dropping each week and it seems river levels are doing the same.
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Not sure what the height is today, but the Murray, below Lake Hume, was dropping pretty consistently during the week.
The Mitta has dropped significantly, hitting 200 meg this week.
The Murrumbidgee around Wagga is also really low, to the point where you can’t really boat it above town at all and need to be really careful anywhere below town.
It doesn’t seem to have slowed the fish down much though.
Around Albury the cod and yellas just seem to keep coming. I suppose the lower water levels will make it tougher to move about but the fish are certainly still on the chew.
We’ve had numerous reports this week of cod being caught. A lot of them have been caught on lures but I’d have to say the bigger numbers have been snared on bait.
One thing we have noticed is the increase in the number of yellas being reported since fishos started adding a scrubby, or small yabbie, to their bait of cheese or chicken.
As we’ve mentioned a few times before, you tend to limit yourself to only targeting cod if you don’t mix it up a bit and create that cocktail.
Surface lures are still doing plenty of damage, with the custom crafted Moonwalkers going really well in the past week or two. Maybe it’s the lower, clearer and slightly cooler water that’s giving this particular smaller surface lure the edge.
The Bidgee’s pretty much the same too; plenty of fish, really clear water and just about all methods working well.
Don’t forget to take your time though, there are plenty of stumps and shallow areas right through the system, just as there are throughout the Murray when she’s low.
It’s just a matter of being a little more conservative with your driving so you aren’t up for new props or worse.
The cod haven’t slowed down too much in the upper Murray either. Jamie Densley nailed a PB 110cm monster on bait last week and was pretty happy about it.
The lack of rain is still delaying the mass exodus of big brown trout from Lake Eucumbene into all its spawning streams, although a drop of around 15mm sent a good bunch up last week.
One of the Canberra C/A staff members, Nathan, had his finger on the pulse, snuck up and landed quite a few, with the best being around nine pound. He was using that glow bug/nymph dropper technique we wrote about recently.
Sounds like a few have crept up but the bulk of big spawners are still congregated around the river mouths, where plenty of fishos have been snaring quite a few good fish.
I’m sure the same situation is occurring on Jindabyne.
I’m also sure that as soon as that first decent rain hits there’ll be hundreds of fishos donning the cold weather gear and heading straight up the mountain.
There are plenty of politicians jumping on the carp herpes virus bandwagon last week I noticed.
I reckon after a few weeks of electioneering we’ll be wishing we could let it go on them.
No need to panic yet though, the release of the virus is approximately 18 months or more away. Good luck on the water this week.