10-01-2009, 10:47 PM
Awesome. I need to try find the pics of the cutthroats I caught when I was in Co and see if they are the same spp. In the meantime here is a writeup I did, think this was last year's trip:
(Note Redfin Perch are an introduced pest in Australia and it is illegal to return them to the water.)
Well it was 1st of September last Friday here in Western Australia so CDDD Duggin and myself headed into the Northern forests for our annual start of season trip to rid our waterways of some introduced feral fish... :lol:
Started out at sparrow's fart in the rain just when it was getting light...
There was a lot of fog and low cloud as we drove through the forest but luckily the rain was easing up...
The logged coups weren't too pretty to look at... but neither are those ugly pine plantations I guess...
We got to the first river we planned to fish and the wattles were in full bloom...
The water level was pretty high but still fishable...
Managed only one fish here...
...so we decided to move on and try some skinny water fishing...
where the going was pretty thick at times...
Since we were finding the R2Sea 200mm dumbbell poppers hard to cast in the thick riparian zone we decided to switch to the humble earthworm....
....which resulted in many fish...
Releasing a fish...
...and it swimming off...
We heard some sort of growling noise, had a feeling we were being followed, caught a glimpse of something in the undergrowth...
....so we decided to leave, doing a head tilt at at this fish ladder on the way out...
This time we found ourselves at a picturesque small impoundment...
...where the water level was quite low but quite fishable...
CDDD hooked up onto a nice redfin and landed it with an airborne whip of his 88 kilo line and 26.5 lb star sinker...
...and then another....
The redfin were quite hungry...
...yes we slayed them...[they are great eating...]...
The sun was slowly setting over our spot illuminating the surrounding green hills where cattle were fornicating...
...and we were getting hungry so we left with an esky full of nice redfin to fry up...
Overall an interesting trip for the start of the season with around 30 trout caught and even more redfin, with a variety of methods and locations thrown in. Hope you enjoyed the story and pics...
(Note Redfin Perch are an introduced pest in Australia and it is illegal to return them to the water.)
Well it was 1st of September last Friday here in Western Australia so CDDD Duggin and myself headed into the Northern forests for our annual start of season trip to rid our waterways of some introduced feral fish... :lol:
Started out at sparrow's fart in the rain just when it was getting light...
There was a lot of fog and low cloud as we drove through the forest but luckily the rain was easing up...
The logged coups weren't too pretty to look at... but neither are those ugly pine plantations I guess...
We got to the first river we planned to fish and the wattles were in full bloom...
The water level was pretty high but still fishable...
Managed only one fish here...
...so we decided to move on and try some skinny water fishing...
where the going was pretty thick at times...
Since we were finding the R2Sea 200mm dumbbell poppers hard to cast in the thick riparian zone we decided to switch to the humble earthworm....
....which resulted in many fish...
Releasing a fish...
...and it swimming off...
We heard some sort of growling noise, had a feeling we were being followed, caught a glimpse of something in the undergrowth...
....so we decided to leave, doing a head tilt at at this fish ladder on the way out...
This time we found ourselves at a picturesque small impoundment...
...where the water level was quite low but quite fishable...
CDDD hooked up onto a nice redfin and landed it with an airborne whip of his 88 kilo line and 26.5 lb star sinker...
...and then another....
The redfin were quite hungry...
...yes we slayed them...[they are great eating...]...
The sun was slowly setting over our spot illuminating the surrounding green hills where cattle were fornicating...
...and we were getting hungry so we left with an esky full of nice redfin to fry up...
Overall an interesting trip for the start of the season with around 30 trout caught and even more redfin, with a variety of methods and locations thrown in. Hope you enjoyed the story and pics...
Marto