Eucumbene

[Moro Mou]

Firstly thanks to the Raiders for the tips we received. We tried most of these and had some sucess but still did it pretty hard.

We arrived at the dam on Wednesday a little after lunch and no sooner did we have the boat in the water the rain hit. Well the fish were already wet so we braved the conditions and started with a troll session. We had 1 lead line out plus two normal spin rigs loaded with a mix of tassie devils and small bibbed minnows. We stopped a few times and cast a mix of hard bodies and plastics into the drowned timber however despite a few follows we could not get a hook up. There were clearly fish present with plenty of rises however some buffoon left his fly reels back at camp!!!

Anyway with the light getting the better of us we trolled our way home and managed a consolation small rainbow on a rainbow pattern minnow.

The next day was a cracker, bright clear skies and this time a bit of heat in the air. We tried a similar strategy to the day before and at least this time we were getting the odd hit. I also worked the shore line with the fly rod but could not raise anything so we basically stuck to trolling.

We dropped one fish near the boat but ended up landing 2 rainbows, 1 26 cm and 1 38 cm. Again nothing to really brag about but a fun morning none the less. We were off the water at about 11 as the wind really started to pick up.

Friday it was absolutley pouring so we decided to call it quits.

So not a great deal of fish but a couple of nice days out of Sydney.

[Matt]

At least you got a couple Moro, Trout can be frustratingly difficult at times and it sounds like you hit one of those times!

It should be a good season though with the rising water and Jindabyne in particular is going to be amazing this year with it being filled to test the new spillway (currently at 77%).

Cheers

Windy