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Good day on one of the cold lakes, awesome even.
Perfect day with very little wind, overcast mid morning and still warm to boot. Water temps around 12 degrees and 10 in the shadows, fish still rising and taking interest even at 11am. Trolled all the way up to the Snowy arm from Kalkite on the east bank, took awhile but had one hit, one landed, one lost and one follow on a plastic all from the same weed bed. Sighted some good fish around the banks, ideal polaroiding weather but the water level is dropping pretty fast.
By the time I caught up with the others they had retired to the bank for some playdo / worm bashing. Using some new techniques and educating Luke to the random Powerbait game was fun, with eight rods out between four of us only a chosen couple won the lottery ( Jazman and Victor excluded ). Lemon Twist and Scrub worms took out the day and I was seriously smoked by an unstopable, called it for an Atlantic or big brown who took me to dissapointment town ( Population, me ).
Luke had a lucky Scrubby which commenced to hook and land two fish in 10 minutes while I was running out fingers to count on my rod was getting hit so much. Got busted off again on 6lb braid ( Think snag rub type stuff ) before landing a nice 51cm Brown and another Rainbow, biggest Bow went 42cm on the troll. Such an unpredictable place that runs hot or cold for various anglers, almost bagging out and losing a fish of a lifetime is just viewed as the norm here.
Looking forward to returning, the Brown was completely full of tiny Shrimp and the Bows had small Yabbies and some green stuff ( Daphnia? ). All fish on lures on Predatek Min Min in Perch and Brown Trout pattern, Jazman even caught some on olive flickbait Powerbait plastics chucked at the trees ( 2 x Bows ). Didnt see many boats all day but after Lynnie mentioned East Jindy I reckon I saw him return to ramp as I hit the point, did you come straight out of the Snowy Arm to the ramp? ( Hard to tell from Kayak level ).
