In Progress

Headlines:  Well what a difference some nice, warm, relatively windless days have made.  Fishing conditions improved over the weekend and the fishing improved out of sight with them.  Eucumbene has picked up dramatically for trollers and also fly anglers. 

With the Lake continuing to rise it is now at 33% plus!  and the fishing is improving rapidly.

The Yamaha and Freshwater Fishing Australia, Snowy Mountains Trout Festival is drawing closer. 

Dates are Saturday the 31st of October - Friday 6th of November 2009

This year sees the addition of a new 'soft plastics' category.   Once againg there is the chance to win a Quintrex boat, Yamaha Outboard Motor, Minn Kota electric motor and Humminbird sounder all on a trailer ready to go.

See www.troutfestival.com for more competition details

Opening Season Store Trading Hours

Mon-Thursday  9am - 5:30pm

Friday       9am - 7pm

Saturday  7am - 5.30pm

Sunday     8am - 4:30pm

FISHING LICENCES These are available online and you can purchase them directly from the NSW fisheries website with a credit card.  Click on this link below.

https://www.licence.nsw.gov.au/gls_eservice/renewals/Application.aspx 

Note: We do not have licences available through the store with Cash or EFT.  We can do them online with a MasterCard or Visa only. 

Flyfishing

Rivers:-  Have fished very well over the weekend with the Thredbo and Eucumbene holding good numbers of fish. Glo bugs and nymphs, as usual were the best patterns and weight was needed with the fast flow in both rivers.

With many of the mountain rivers and streams are flowing hard so weighted flies are the best option to get down where fish are holding. 

Bead head nymphs in black, brown, pheasant tail, copper john, green drake, olive, prince are all great patterns to fish in tandem with a glo bug.

With the warmer weather dries will be great to search with also. Try a larger stimulator in the fast water or, on the larger slower pools, an emerger or parachute style dry as these can work very well.

Termites have been on the wing this week so a couple of ant patterns should be in your box in case of a fall of these insects.

Other rivers will also fish well and if the weather is warm enough some dry fly fishing is certainly on the cards.  Try patterns like the Elk hair caddis, klinkhamer, royal wullf, humpy, adams, bluewing olive, stimulator, bushy's emerger. 

The Moonbah, Murrumbidgee, Gungarlin, Eucumbene, Thredbo, Little Thredbo are all great rivers to have a look at over the weekend.

*Hi Guys,
Used the new Z-Axis on opening weekend. exceeded expectations. handled heavy beads no problems. My brother and I cleaned up with about 140 rainbows on euc and thredbo over two days. Lots of people about and in good spirits. still saw quite a few anglers struggle with the high flows rates but most got some fish.

Pat McFadden

Lake Eucumbene:-  Fly reports have picked up with some nice fish being taken off the bank in several areas. 

Searching with wets and small nymphs has been productive on the rainbows at all times of the day and all weather conditions.

Polaroiding has been excellent in the lake with plenty of fish being spotted in many, many areas.  Gettting them to eat can be a bit of a challenge, but there have been plenty of opportunities for many anglers.  The thrill of watching a fish speed up and eat you offering makes this method very exciting.

Last years dead thistles that are in the water can be a challenge, but the fish can be found cruising right in close in some of these areas.  There are midge, small beetles, thistle grubs, corixa, slugs, and who knows what else that the fish are feeding up on in these areas.

Evenings and first light of a morning have still been the best though you can polaroid the daytime for some nice rainbows and browns if conditions allow.

Areas to look at are Wangrabelle,  Seven Gates, Buckenderra, Braemar, Springwood, Yens and Cobrabald.

*Polaroided fifteen odd fish myself on Sunday.  They were a bit tricky but still managed a couple of nice fish, with both eating a midge pupa.

Lake Jindabyne:-  Jindabyne has been quiet report wise though there are bound to be a few good browns and nice rainbows to be found.   Eucumbene may well be a better option being that the lake is rising over grass rather than the mostly rock and sand at Jindabyne.

Sids and Rushes bay, Kalkite are all worth a look as is Hatchery bay, Hayshed bay and Kangaroo bay.

Lake Tantangara :- No reports this week. The lake has risen a little and this should make for some good fishing.

Trolling and Spinning 

We have a large range of great trolling and casting lures in stock for the season, including a great colour range of McGrath divers, six blade/vibe stlye lures, New Celtas in rainbow and brown trout, New Metallic Gold Rapalas, Tassies, Lofty's, Sting's, Rebel, Viking, Stumpjumper, Jack's hopper, Flatfish, Strike Pro, TT, Squidgies, Come in and pick our brains on what to use where.

Eucumbene:-  Eucumbene trolling haspicked up dramatically with some very good reports.  

Keep an eye open for floating debris in the lake at present.

Flat line trolling in very close in the shallower bays has produced some nice fish and the fish will move into shallow water early looking for food.  Drifting and casting small minnows or plastics will turn up some good rainbows and the odd brown in the hour or so around sunrise.  Look for any of the soaks and channels that have filled up with the rising level and work these areas over carefully.

Boat Launching is available in many areas.  Anglers Reach, Buckenderra, Old Adaminaby, Dam wall.  

Best areas to try would be Anglers Reach, Dam Wall, and Buckenderra.

Jindabyne:- Jindabyne has produced some nice fish over the weekend with some great fish taken both trolling and spinning. 

*Hey guys,

I took my 6 year old daughter Reese up to Kalkite on the weekend for the first time. Let's say I don't think it will be possible to leave her at home again.  We arrived around 3pm Sat and the weather wasn't looking good, so we set up camp after putting the rods in.  Twenty minutes later her rod bent over and on the other end was a healthy brown.  6pm we went for a troll and she nabbed an even bigger Brown.  Back to camp at 7 for dinner and then off to bed she went.

Sunday morning we were up at first light and I scored a small rainbow before she caught her biggest fish, a healthy 5 pound brown and before long another 2 smaller fish, a brown and a rainbow. We putted around till lunch time and landed two smaller fish which she let go and we dropped another 2.  A great trip except for the fact she did me 5 to 1.  Sizes were  4 3/4pound ,  3 1/4 pound , 2 pound and three fish at 1 1/2 pound. All fish were weighed clean, so she did very well for herself.  They were all very well fed with yabbies and small shrimp. Now she has her favourite Tassie and I guess I will be buying a few more.

 

 

 

Cheers Lee and Reesey.

Baitfishing 

The bait fishing in Eucumbene has been fantastic and will continue with the rising water.  Scrubworms have been doing very well as have Powerbait and Gulp bait.  Grubs will also be a great bait especially for browns that are starting to search the flooding bays.

*Below Dylan Dwyer caught his first ever brown trout with his dad.  The fish ate a scrubworm and provided plenty of excitement for all. 

Mudeyes are currently available and should provide some good evening and early morning fishing especially when the weather warms.

There are hundreds of likely looking bays, soaks and corners in the lake at present but the ususal haunts of Seven Gates, Buckenderra, Yens Bay, Cemetary point and Anglers Reach are the pick of the areas overall.

Jindabyne has risen considerably and will produce some excellent bait fishing as well over the weekend.  Grubs, Scrubbies and Powerbait will be the pick there.

*One customer this week did quite well on Mudeyes in Jindabyne.  He landed some very nice fish but the little atlantic salmon moved in and ate up the last of his mudeyes.  He was last seen returning with more bait for a re match.

Try areas like Rushes Bay, Hatchery Bay, The Clay pits, Curiosity rocks and Kalkite.

Lake Levels

Jindabyne    60.0%  

Tantangara     15.3%

Cheers Tom

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