Might need a few warm days to get them on the chew. Was hard going last week and only saw a few landed, mostly on deep divers from the tinny and yak fishers.
I saw one a fisher caught, and the gut was full of various lawn beatles, seems they were feeding down on the bottom of newly flooded grass areas.
Yeah Harvey. There were no rises at dawn so i moved around to another spot , Had a couple big Browns in front of me but couldn't temp them. There were fish around but i think they were all feeding of the bottom. No insects flying around and landing on the water to bring them up . Like i said, a few warm days in a row will get the flying ants swarming and all the other spring insects active, thats when we should see some realy good morning and arvo action .
for some one like me who is yet to get into fly fishing whats the best way for me to get a trout the one we caught today was on a bait! I woulf love my first wildie to be on lure. Plastic vibe spinner diver surface lure whats the best to try?? And is there anything you can use to burley up trout???
No need for burley , unless you stay in one spot and bait fish. Then chook pellets can bring them around, but this can leed to them only eating the pellets and not taking baits.
As for lures, by far the easiest and cheapest are Celta type spinners. You can cast them a mile even if its windy, you can let them sink and work different depths, and they work well. Alot of my trout have been caught on them and if i take someone new to trout fishing , thats the type lure i set them up with.
You realy want to start fishing just before the sun comes up, and the hour before sunset right up to darkness. But i have caught plenty throughout the day by moving around and working a bit deeper.
Hard bodys are great too, i prefer suspending type lures in trout colours. ( they are not shy in eating each other )
Your eyes need to be scanning the surface for any telltails of activity. ie; rises and fins breaking the surface. Then cast ahead of the fish as not to spook it.
Grant has great advice! Growing up trout fishing in the States I used spinners similar to the Celtas. Mepps make good spinning lures, but you might have to hunt a bit to find them over here. Try different locations and depths, generally deep during the day and anywhere you see activity at sun up and sun down.
grantarctic1
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Might need
Might need a few warm days to get them on the chew. Was hard going last week and only saw a few landed, mostly on deep divers from the tinny and yak fishers.
I saw one a fisher caught, and the gut was full of various lawn beatles, seems they were feeding down on the bottom of newly flooded grass areas.
Jorie
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where was that at
where was that at grantarctic1? Harvey dam ?? We went there today got only one fish in first cast then nothing for 6 hours horse rainbow tho..
grantarctic1
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Yeah
Yeah Harvey. There were no rises at dawn so i moved around to another spot , Had a couple big Browns in front of me but couldn't temp them. There were fish around but i think they were all feeding of the bottom. No insects flying around and landing on the water to bring them up . Like i said, a few warm days in a row will get the flying ants swarming and all the other spring insects active, thats when we should see some realy good morning and arvo action .
Jorie
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Date Joined: 04/09/12
grantarctic1
for some one like me who is yet to get into fly fishing whats the best way for me to get a trout the one we caught today was on a bait! I woulf love my first wildie to be on lure. Plastic vibe spinner diver surface lure whats the best to try?? And is there anything you can use to burley up trout???
grantarctic1
Posts: 2546
Date Joined: 03/03/11
No need for burley
No need for burley , unless you stay in one spot and bait fish. Then chook pellets can bring them around, but this can leed to them only eating the pellets and not taking baits.
As for lures, by far the easiest and cheapest are Celta type spinners. You can cast them a mile even if its windy, you can let them sink and work different depths, and they work well. Alot of my trout have been caught on them and if i take someone new to trout fishing , thats the type lure i set them up with.
You realy want to start fishing just before the sun comes up, and the hour before sunset right up to darkness. But i have caught plenty throughout the day by moving around and working a bit deeper.
Hard bodys are great too, i prefer suspending type lures in trout colours. ( they are not shy in eating each other )
Your eyes need to be scanning the surface for any telltails of activity. ie; rises and fins breaking the surface. Then cast ahead of the fish as not to spook it.
Check out this link to a thread i posted about the lures i use -- http://fishwrecked.com/forum/trout-lures-and-flies
Here is a couple of my short video's. Its not hard to work out the locations i'm fishing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boNwp6aOERU&feature=c4-overview&list=UUB_zUdPMNmGN6cfeHELkOlw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUcMvlK4uY&feature=c4-overview&list=UUB_zUdPMNmGN6cfeHELkOlw
Best advice i can give you, is just keep trying and take note of what other fisho's are doing .
Cheers Grant ..
lrp1
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Grant has great advice!
Grant has great advice! Growing up trout fishing in the States I used spinners similar to the Celtas. Mepps make good spinning lures, but you might have to hunt a bit to find them over here. Try different locations and depths, generally deep during the day and anywhere you see activity at sun up and sun down.