Mudgee - Lake Windamere Goldens

[Guest BIGRED04]

Guys

Im heading to Lake windamere to target goldens next week. Has anyone fished there before and if so do you have any tackle hints (lures, bait) and locations. I want to try and deep jig some fish.

Thanks in advance

[GregL]

G'day Red

I have fished Windamere a fair bit.

Best baits are Jackalls in the 50 & 60 sizes. Golds and naturals are the best colours.

Fish the points, even the small ones in bays.

My favorite area is up the back of the dam near the wall. Either side from the no fish markers there are bays, both bays hold good fish.

Sit out off the bank and cast into it. Try land on the edge of the weed beds and slowly crank back out. Mix it up with some hops.

Watch your sounder as you can spot fish out deeper off the bank.

I like to sit the boat in 25-30ft of water up the back and work the lure near the bottom all the way to the boat.

Look for the fence in the water in the southern bay. cast along it

This area is where we filmed our windamere vid.

Greg

[FishDrought]

Mate, I spent more years there than I care to remember.

The dam has lost a massive amount of water so watch out submerged trees & fences. I have always had good success with lures of medium size in particular lures with a defined tiger pattern of yellow & black or red & black.

If you can find medium "Fish Stick" & Stump Jumpers in those colours I would be amazed if you didn't pull out few good sized. there are a couple of locally made lures from Mudgee & Rylstone but the names escape me at the moment ( I always favoured the fish stick, in fact there are still 4 of them in my tackle box).

Baits, the usual assortment fish fillets /rabbit & go nice fat garden worms always a winner (not the tiny compost grown they sell in the servo's) - or spy a nice snaggy area & hang a piece of meat over a branch for the duration of your visit - the meat will get blown & big juicy maggots falling into the water will bring in the yellow belly's, Silvers & maybe some Cod. I think a few trout have been caught in the Rylstone end but with the water warming up you would be hard pressed.

Area's - basically the Rylstone area to Limestone Creek (heading towards Mudgee) are good area's, though there is a lot less water then there use to be. If your on the boat try jigging around some of the big old trees they will show up on your sounder / use some heavier line around the trees of course.

Also if you have time the Cudgegong river has some beautiful trout, brown & rainbow for some fantastic sport.

I will see if I can google earth you a pic of Windamere dam & highlight some spots for you. If your landbased then Limestone creek & the dam wall / spillway are good targets too.

Cheers

Jas

[Guest BIGRED04]

Thanks guys

The pics would be great if you could send them through and Ill see how I go. It cant be that hard with so little water in the dam.