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First Tassie Trout 2018-19
It was a back water that gave up my first trout of the season... 6-8-18
With it still overcast, cool and with light rain falling I decided that this hanging around waiting for the weather to clear up was over. I headed off to the Mersey River to fish a small stretch of back water that I felt would be holding at least one trout and maybe one or two more.
After arriving at the river I saw it was still running high and very fast, however after a fifteen minute walk I was finally in the backwater at 10:15am. This back water is now only around 60 metres long, as the 2016 June floods changed it from a 200 metre stretch to what it is today. Still there was plenty of water belting down through it and it wasn't long before I was in there, flicking a #0 Mepps Aglia Tiger Fluoro spinner around.
For the first fifteen metres things were quiet, until I came to a nice shallow flat water that I was sure would be holding a trout. It only took one cast into it and two turns of the reel handle before the Aglia was snapped up by a solid brown trout!
After a short tussle I soon had a well-conditioned brown trout in the net, photographed and back in the back water. I did weigh it while it was still in the net and after deducting the net weight of 400 grams off the total weight, it came up at 590 grams.
There was still light rain falling and it was looking pretty gloomy to the North West, so I quickly fished my way up through the back water without having a single touch or follow. I was back at the car by 11:50 am and headed for home. So I may have only caught the one brown trout for the morning but it was good to get the first of the 2018-19 trout season on the board.
Cheers,
Adrian (meppstas) Webb