Blue Mountains Trout

[Saladboi]

Haha all good lads. Either way, bloody cold. Appreciate the comments. Rick we’re talking hiking into the unrestricted areas that aren’t classified as general trout stream and open all year 👍

[OZrevhead]

Hey Saladboi, how did you go with this?

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[Yes Dear]

Mate I use to camp and fish at Oconnell/Tarrana for years.

We use to camp at the Fish River Reserve and one night it got down to -7, the condensation in the tent froze on the roof and the weight pulled the tent sides in, man that was to the bone cold.

Fish River can produce some good browns and bows as does Phill's Falls and the Duck.

Make sure you go down pass the red rattler if you can.

We really miss camping out there it was fantastic times.

We were lucky enough to know a farmer that owned most of one side of the river there from the dirt road river crossing down so ended up getting to camp in his paddocks.

Now we go to Styx River at Ebor, very tight fishing hard for fly.

Going for 8 days in a few weeks.

another vote for stream fishing, love it and the scenery.

Lots of snakes though

[Yes Dear]

[Yes Dear]

my pups finding first sun rays after a - 12 night at Ebor

still make me laugh.

[PaddyT]

Saw my first red belly of the season last week near Oberon- its wriggle stick time again!

[Saladboi]

Yes Dear do you know if Fish River is fishing well nowadays?? Or any river spots west of the mountains you guys know of? Would love to fish somewhere out there also. Paddy T I’m afraid I haven’t been yet. House work has had me tied down 🙄

keen to go ASAP but shame the snakes are out already, was looking forward to not having to be on high alert the entire time! Ah well next winter.

Id think realistically now my next adventure will be after opening weekend so would be keen to go somewhere west of the mountains if anyone has any spots for a camp and fish that might be less crowded? (Dont mind a bit of a walk).

cheers

[PaddyT]

gaiters-you will be fine , there is heaps of water up in those rivers at the moment

[Yes Dear]

Mate have not been there since we moved up here nearly 10 years ago.

Fish River at Oconnell/Tarana has a free camp reserve next to the river.

We stayed there heaps, can get busy in school and long weekend

Duckmoloi is nice place to camp but a 4WD or Subaru AWD is good to have.

Things may have changed since i was there, plenty of tiger snakes!

Fished the Kowmung a few times which is nice

 

 

[Yes Dear]

Fish River pics from years ago

Camping at the reserve at Oconnell next to river (pre camper trailer days).

One of many pools to fish.

Nice brown next to my size 12 boot!

Caught plenty on fly and on hard body minnows

[Saladboi]

Very nice brown mate! Yeah I’ve got a Subaru so may suss our the duckmaloi.

@PaddyT do you mean lots of water in the blue mountains? Coxs, little, Jenolan etc? Have you been fishing up there recently and had much luck?

think I gotta stop asking questions and just get out there!

[PaddyT]

Yep lots of water in those rivers, i have been up there hunting , just remember its still closed season

[Yes Dear]

Kowmung trout 

Some New England trouty spots we are heading to aftre long weekend 

Edited September 16, 2020 by Yes Dear

[Saladboi]

Yeh was going to go below little or hit the Jenolan @PaddyT

that spot looks awesome @Yes Dear 

[Rebel]

Great reports and Super photos.

Edited September 16, 2020 by Rebel

[nik]

Some great sharing of info here!

[Duaney]

Hi All, 

 

I fished the Jenolan over the weekend so I thought I’d post an update. I’ve fished it a lot in recent years and always been pretty successful. Sometimes the bites could be slow but you’d still see plenty around. 
 

This weekend the numbers seemed really low. We setup camp about a half hour downstream from the usual firetrail/river junction. From there two of us walked downstream about another hour and two worked their way upstream from camp. Between all of us only two small rainbows were sited. Water levels were the lowest I’ve seen them, even after a week of rain. 
 

On a more positive note there was much less evidence of pigs around the area and the native wildlife was out in big numbers. We saw 4 goanna and 11 red belly black snakes.

 

If anyone has any recommendations for good camping/fishing spots that may be fairing better after last seasons low rainfall that would be fantastic. 
 

Thanks, Duane