G’day fishos.
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been ranting about how great Lake Hume’s been fishing.
To be honest, which I always am by the way, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Hume fish any better than I have this summer.
OK, the size of the reddies might leave a little to be desired but when have you ever been able to go out to Lake Hume and have the luxury of being able to choose whether you should target yellowbelly, redfin, carp or cod and know that your chances of success of catching all four in the one day are very, very real. In fact, it’s now quite possible to catch a good feed of four species in a day if you’d like to have a crack at carp (Eeewww).
It’s pretty easy to work out why the cod and yellas are there in good numbers.
That’s our licence money going to work, combined with the good ethics of fishos releasing lots of fish and regulations that are designed to protect the small stuff and the breeders.
The carp, well, they just keep turning up every year.
Redfin though are a different story though.
Where the hell did they come from this year?
They’ve been missing in action for the past three years and all of a sudden everyone’s catching them again?
Lake Hume isn’t the only place this has happened either.
Blowering has been ridiculously quiet for redfin for the past three years and they’re back in numbers there too.
We obviously had a very wet winter and maybe that triggered massive spawning in both dams but reddies usually spawn in spring/summer from my recollections.
Maybe they did spawn last summer and the continual rising water in both lakes gave them near perfect conditions for survival and that’s made all the difference.
Actually that sounds a pretty fair assumption to me, so I’m going with that.
Problem solved. Maybe.
If you’re planning to hit Dartmouth, downriggers, paravanes, cowbells and ECT are the order of the day.
Tassies, King Cobras, Pimples and small rapalas behind are all worth a crack and, at the moment, all are doing pretty well.
Fish seem to be in that 30’ to 50’ mark.
Streams are all fishing well.
As mentioned last week, the trout are gorging themselves on hoppers and crickets at the moment.
That’s not going to change for some time.
Lake Hume is the same as we’ve seen for a while now. Reddies on the chew, with the odd cod, yella and carp getting caught as well.
All good.
I actually heard of a 60 centimetre trout coming out a week or so ago too so you never know.
To be honest, which I always am by the way, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Hume fish any better than I have this summer.
- Russell Mason