G’DAY fishos!
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What a fantastic week we’ve just had. Warm and sunny every day, no wind, just perfect fishing weather - if you were in Darwin.
Meantime, on the border, well you know what it’s been like, hasn’t been the greatest fishing weather by any stretch of the imagination.
To be honest (which we always are in this column), it’s been hard to get fishing reports over the past week because, you guessed it, not too many people are going fishing.
Those who have braved the elements are reporting a couple of fish but nothing amazing.
Tony Ward of Thurgoona was one of those brave souls; he landed a trout of what looks to be about three kilograms plus.
Details are sketchy but it was apparently caught on a pink lure (photo on Compleat Angler Lavington facebook site).
Traditionally the best months for trolling trout in Lake Hume are still ahead of us. I’ve always found August good and September/October probably the best so here’s hoping.
At least the weather should be on the improve, giving us a little incentive to get out and have a crack.
There’s still the odd yella being trolled and angled too and, like the trout in Hume, their best months are ahead. While not a lot are coming in, quite a few of the ones I’ve seen have been around 1.5 kilos with a good sprinkling of fish up to seven kilograms so here’s hoping the lake keeps rising for three or four months and they fire up.
Mulwala’s starting to rise slowly and could be worth a visit too. Don’t forget, we’ve only got until the end of August before the cod season closes.
I’ve just read a press release from the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning re cod surveys conducted between Tocumwal and Mulwala. The survey team used electro-fishing techniques and report the river is in an extremely healthy state.
Apparently there are really good numbers of one-year-old cod among quite a few bigger fish.
They looked at numbers of cod, changes to the fish from year to year and how the fish respond to environmental variables such as water flows and re-snagging the river. Over the past 14 years about 3500 large snags and trees have been put back into the Murray and in those areas they’ve found an increase in fish numbers.
Using the electro-fishing technique they expect to get 20-30 cod over the one-metre mark and say these fish are about 20-25 years old. It’s good to see our licence money at work.
Murray crays are still going really well between Albury-Mulwala.
Anyhow, hope we catch up with you again next week.
RUSS’S RIPPER: Cray nets back in stock (Compleat Angler, Wagga Rd, Lavington)
