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A few members of the Canberra massive relocated to Jindabyne for the day in anticipation of some hot trouting action. With -7 degrees forecast for Thredbo we dressed for the worst, but on arrival we were delighted to find quite mild conditions lakeside.Paddy broke the drought very early with a stunningly marked brown taken trolling a jointed rapala in brown trout pattern.
I headed off to fish an isolated bank and dropped two fish on plastics. After a fruitless hour casting with no hits I met up with Derek and Tim (our guest from Canada who made us a wicked chilli for lunch ), who were riding tandem in Dereks Outfitter, and learnt that Derek had caught a cracker of a brook trout, also on the troll. I persisted with the plastics for a while but soon the lure of coffee, lunch, and the dreaded powerbait lottery proved too much, and we hit our favourite bank. My numbers came up and I landed the only land-based fish of the trip, a nice rainbow of about 40cm on chunky cheese.
It was very cool to have caught all three trout species between us. I gave the plastics another chance, but after dropping yet another fish I lost my enthusiasm, Paddy and I left soon after lunch, leaving Derek and Tim to plough the lake in search of more bars of silver - I hope you got that fish! Thanks Paddy for carting me, and Derek for carting my kayak to the lake and providing us with a veritable bounty of drinks and food to warm us up. It was quite simply a stunning winter's day in the snowies with great company, and I look forward to many more before the thaw.
