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Eight in an Hour

By Adrian (meppstas) Webb

Another cool, dull and overcast day had me scratching my head as to where I would go for a spin session. With rain forecast, I decided to fish a small tannin stream on private property, around 15 kilometres from home. No sooner had I left home, there was some light drizzle. No sooner had I arrived though it was gone, however there was still more to come from what I could see.

After a brisk fifteen minute walk I was in the stream and ready for action... well that was what I was hoping for. The first twenty metres or so were a little quiet, with just the one follow from a small brown. A good sign though to see a trout here for starters.

A little further up and I had a couple of soft hits from another small brown, before it eventually took the little Gold Mepps Aglia spinner. Ten seconds later it tossed the spinner. When I moved into the next stretch of water, I flicked the little gold spinner to the top left hand side and retrieved it back in a flat water, close to the river bank. Giving the rod a light twitch every so often on the retrieve, to make the spinner blade flutter, I soon had a brown take it and this one was well and truly hooked.

It wasn't a big fish by any means, just a small well-conditioned, beautifully coloured little wild brown trout. A little further up the river I picked up my second small brown, using the same method that sucked in the first fish.

The next stretch of water was a narrow one and it was here that I picked up another brown. This was a much better fish that went 285 grams. The little #00 Mepps Gold Aglia was doing its job well so far and I was hoping it would continue to do so.

Not all that long after releasing the brown, I picked up trout number four from a small flat water close to the river bank. The flat water that I picked that little brown from was one that I reckon the inexperienced trout fisho would have bypassed. Four trout caught and released in the first half an hour was good and with a light drizzle setting in I doubted that I would be in the water for too much longer, especially seeing as I only had a long sleeved shirt on.

I still wanted to catch a few more before I got too damp, so I hurried on and bypassed a couple of shallow runs until I reached some deeper stretches of water. In three of the five deeper stretches or water fished I caught and release another four browns from five takes. After catching trout number eight, which was also the best fish of the day by ten grams, I called it a day.

Every trout hooked today was taken in the flat water areas close to the river banks that had a bubble line (a great trout food line) running next to it. The wind had started to pick up and it was getting quite cold, even more so with the light drizzle that had set in. So, eight trout landed from ten hook ups over an hour of fishing was in my books a fairly good spin session.

Adrian (meppstas)

Gear Used:

Okuma Celilo ULS 6' 1-3kg trout rod
Okuma Helios SX20 spinning reel
Mepps Inline Spinner lures
Platypus Super 100 mono lines