G’day fishos.
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If you’re into trolling for trout you’re probably already aware you’re fast approaching the best time of the year.
The days are slowly getting longer, most lakes are rising – which is something that seems to turn trout on – and we’ll start to lose those bitterly cold mornings in the not too distant future… I hope.
It doesn’t matter if we’re talking Tantangara, Eucumbene, Jindabyne, Khancoban, Dartmouth or Lake Hume, we’re coming into that time of year most keen trout trollers love.
In virtually all of those lakes, you seem to be able to get away from other fishos to a fair degree and do your own thing without too much drama.
However, Hume can be a bit different.
It’s great living in the thriving metropolis of Albury/Wodonga, especially when we have such a large fishery right on our doorstep.
Living in a city this size can also create a few problems though, particularly once word gets out that there’s some action out there.
Late afternoons after work and weekends become prime time.
Once a fish or two are caught in a certain area it becomes prime real estate, and that’s when things can get interesting.
We’ve all heard about road rage, well quite a few fishos experience boat rage as well.
We’ve all heard about road rage, well quite a few fishos experience boat rage as well.
Things that create issues are usually simple dumb things like cutting too close in front of someone on their trolling line; trolling behind another boat but being way too close and virtually sitting on top of their lures; and trolling or driving across the back of another boat too close, which usually results in lines being tangled or even cut off by a propeller.
Honestly, you nearly need traffic lights in some areas at times.
It can be really frustrating when some fishos do this dumb stuff.
I suppose it all comes back to using some common sense.
As they say though, common sense isn’t all that common any more.
In other news...
Blowering has been reasonably productive for redfin fishos.
Best bet seems to be to fish between 40’ to 60’ of water and ice jigs seem to be the flavour of the month.
Lots of fish in the 25-30cm range but there have been some decent bags about with fish up to 40cm-plus.
The cod scene has been pretty tough, with quite a few keen fishos fishing all hours to try to nail those meteries the lake is famous for.
Speaking to a few of them, it seems like pretty hard work with a lot of casts between fish but there’s still a few coming in.
Big soft plastics and wake baits seem to be the go.
It’s no secret that the same lures have been working at Copeton for years, and that’s another lake fishing well at the minute...
If you don’t mind the 11-hour drive.