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Jason's Brown on a soft plastic, dont know how he does it...
Was indeed great to vacate the house and conditions were superb (for humans anyway). If I was to reflect on the day we arrived about an hour late, so missed out on succesfull jointed lure flatlining. Switched to tassies/cobras and had a solid hit straight away on brown bomber, cycled colours to yellow winged brown rebel indigenous lofty (Yellow Winged Corroboree - Thanks Geoff) and purple clown and rigged up heathy hooks (oppossed).
Snuck into a rocky bay and trolled over a near surface sip and sure enough, bend and big run. Great fish earning it's great freedom, forgot I had tightened drag to retrieve lure earlier (video footage will not be released!). Needless to say apart from a hit on the clown that was it, fish rose till roughly 11am then stayed deep till around 2pm.
Couldn't believe squidder was on a grand slam roll (Atlantic, Brown & Brook - Just needed Rainbow), so i stole his profitable brown bank. Jase had cleaned the fish here earlier and as karma would have it the seagulls flocked in and wouldn't leave the shallows. Climbing a boulder for a good look around I found I was fishing a relative underwater forest, meaning I was bound to fail (hooking up would have cost me dearly).
I could see the ramp in the distance and hear bells every 20 minutes so made the pedal over to our usual possie. Bumped into a fellow kayaker Alan (from CAA), using a sinking fly line and wooly buggers (couple of hits). Set up shop and started off well with a school of bows moving in, hooking one and seeing it's mate cutting a rug as the fish came in. Next fish took line like a, erm, line thief and launched itself skywards numerous times. Ended up a great fish, top 5 rainbows of my jindabyne experiences (went 56cm on the glad wrap). Soon as I rebaited other rod shook violently, no weight unfortunately.
Couple of things I did different this trip, trolled with fluoro straight through (famell and vanish) and forgot the GPS. The line returned a couple of seriously snagged lures and worked well with the tassies but didn't rate it with the minnows, jointeds and crawdads (braid provides better feel, lacks abrasion resistance though).
GPS really gives me the confidence to troll effectively at speeds conducive to lure action, rod tip action and fluoro didn't cut the mustad.when I troll I'm interested in covering ground, not covering landmarks counting trees to gauge walking speeds. To those that don't know, the difference between 3kmph and 5kmph is pretty critical, especially when flatlining away from the bank (in my experience anyway).
Top stuff Jase, sorry the truly remarkable feat of the jindy grand slam on plastics didn't occur. Man, all four fish on one of the hardest techniques to master on trout would have been truely regal. New issue of yak fisher is out and I couldn't help but think while I like McGoverns articles on trout on plastic (in freshwater fishing/SFA) I think you could do a better one from the kayak. You definately have a skill mastered that needs to be shared, I know your far to humble to admit it but you do... Man.
