decided yesterday morning to take a drive up to TCD. i've recently bought a fly outfit to supplement my spinning setup so i'm trying to spend a fair bit of time practicing.
walked up to the dam and arrived at around 2pm, at this point i had the whole dam to myself. i wondered whether i had read the weather report incorrectly. it was cloudy but no rain and the pressure was favourable. why no people? it was blowing reasonably hard from the north east though but in my experience that is pretty much on par for TCD.
the dam appears to still be leaking...
i tried the left (eastern) bank first, casting tassie devils - golds and pinks. i didn't sight any fish and had no hits. after an hour or so i decided to trek across the wall to some of my more favoured spots.
made it over to my first spot not far from the wall. by this time there were some sunny breaks starting to appear, the wind was still quite strong though. here i tried spinning some with similar coloured tassie devils. after a half hour of no action i was getting a bit bored so i pulled out the fly gear and setup. i'm not too familiar yet with fly names so please excuse my ignorance. i tried a black wholly bugger with a gold bead head (i know that one!) but could not spark any interest. i switched to what i think is a hare and copper but again no interest. with the wind there really were many air borne insects about so i wondered whether fly casting was worth it.
at around 4:30pm i moved on to my favourite spot over near the old quarry. i went through a few lures here as i spent 2 to 2.5hrs here. i used gold, black & gold, green, , green & gold, burgundy, brown. it was very quite. i managed to land one rainbow at around 5:45pm that was 2.5lbs on a burgundy lure. it hit hard out in the deep and fought really well. other than that it was as though there were no fish in the dam. very strange as i thought the weather was favourable. any thoughts?
after 6pm it was mainly blue skies. i notice that i managed to get some colour on my arms.
i finished off by heading back to the second spot i was at and tried some of the same lures i had already used but to no avail. i was hoping the wind would die down towards sunset so and i intended to try the fly rod a little more very late but it didn't look like happening. so by 8pm i decided to pack it up and head home.
not much in the way of fish but for me just being out there is reward enough.