cyclone
26-01-2009, 12:28 PM
Hello I am new to the impoundment seen and thought I would post a report on my first few attempts.
First was Faust dam about 7th and 8th january day one we moved up the river arm casting at weeded banks and points with a mix of weed and timber result was two short bites one on a berkly frog the other on a walking style suface lure. A troll of the basin on dusk showed small pods of about 4 fish on the sounder but not interested in scorpions on offer.
Day two same as day 1 but some rain overnight soon after launching 11:30 son was working the walk dog lure along a weed bank attracted a huge short strike that mde him get down off the casting platform for fear of being pulled out. about ten casts later same result a massive boil short of the lure and that was it . Late in the day 5:30 casting down wind to the edge of a weed bed on a shallow point the young fella again attracted the attention of another large fish on the same lure but no hook contact.
While we didn't catch a fish at faust we saw enough to convince us a return trip was on the cards.
13th january bleek day boared check the level of tinaroo and saw it had had a significant rise asked son if a trip to tinaroo was a good idea and that was it he was out preparing the boat. arrived 10:30 and looked for a quiet bay out of the breeze, the water was well up and drowned grass beds extended out from the bank about ten metres it looked very fishy. while moving down the bank I saw a large swirl tight on the bank so we tied off to a tree and began casting a mixture of hollow bellys, boof frogs, poppers and minnows at the edge of the grass to try and draw the fish out.
I saw another couple of fish move in a pocket amongst the grass so laid a cast with the boof frog right on top of them all this did was scare approx 6 fish further along the bank.
Another half hour casting produced a couple of strikes on surface lures from fish in the 70-80 cm range and a failed hook up on a hollowbelly. we moved on to other similar locations for nil result.
At 5:00 pm we went back to the first location to find the same activity in the grass so went to work again and like before missed a couple on the surface. Then it finally happened our first fish my son had fishing a hollowbelly with a steady retrieve and an occasional twitch and wind he came up tight on a very angry 70cm fish it took him on a dance aroud the boat and tree we were tied to and then in the net. a couple of quick pics and off it went and so did we happy in the fact we finally had our first fish.
25th January tinaroo social day out 4 people in the boat lots of traffic not expecting to much tried various spots for no result then decided to give the location from the previous visit a go. On arrival no sign of fish and the water had risen about 1mtr from last trip hammered the water with various arsenel 20 mins in I was watching my father inlaws storm shad return to the boat thinking how life like it looked when I noticed the tip of his rod load up and a fish around 1mtr roll on his lure and return to the grass.
A further 20mins produced nothing so it was back home.
Hope no one fell asleep but I thought I would cover all three trips in one post basically because I'm too lazy to post three times.
Andrew.
First was Faust dam about 7th and 8th january day one we moved up the river arm casting at weeded banks and points with a mix of weed and timber result was two short bites one on a berkly frog the other on a walking style suface lure. A troll of the basin on dusk showed small pods of about 4 fish on the sounder but not interested in scorpions on offer.
Day two same as day 1 but some rain overnight soon after launching 11:30 son was working the walk dog lure along a weed bank attracted a huge short strike that mde him get down off the casting platform for fear of being pulled out. about ten casts later same result a massive boil short of the lure and that was it . Late in the day 5:30 casting down wind to the edge of a weed bed on a shallow point the young fella again attracted the attention of another large fish on the same lure but no hook contact.
While we didn't catch a fish at faust we saw enough to convince us a return trip was on the cards.
13th january bleek day boared check the level of tinaroo and saw it had had a significant rise asked son if a trip to tinaroo was a good idea and that was it he was out preparing the boat. arrived 10:30 and looked for a quiet bay out of the breeze, the water was well up and drowned grass beds extended out from the bank about ten metres it looked very fishy. while moving down the bank I saw a large swirl tight on the bank so we tied off to a tree and began casting a mixture of hollow bellys, boof frogs, poppers and minnows at the edge of the grass to try and draw the fish out.
I saw another couple of fish move in a pocket amongst the grass so laid a cast with the boof frog right on top of them all this did was scare approx 6 fish further along the bank.
Another half hour casting produced a couple of strikes on surface lures from fish in the 70-80 cm range and a failed hook up on a hollowbelly. we moved on to other similar locations for nil result.
At 5:00 pm we went back to the first location to find the same activity in the grass so went to work again and like before missed a couple on the surface. Then it finally happened our first fish my son had fishing a hollowbelly with a steady retrieve and an occasional twitch and wind he came up tight on a very angry 70cm fish it took him on a dance aroud the boat and tree we were tied to and then in the net. a couple of quick pics and off it went and so did we happy in the fact we finally had our first fish.
25th January tinaroo social day out 4 people in the boat lots of traffic not expecting to much tried various spots for no result then decided to give the location from the previous visit a go. On arrival no sign of fish and the water had risen about 1mtr from last trip hammered the water with various arsenel 20 mins in I was watching my father inlaws storm shad return to the boat thinking how life like it looked when I noticed the tip of his rod load up and a fish around 1mtr roll on his lure and return to the grass.
A further 20mins produced nothing so it was back home.
Hope no one fell asleep but I thought I would cover all three trips in one post basically because I'm too lazy to post three times.
Andrew.