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Medium & Fast Water Trout
Seeing it had been eight days since my last spin session and it was a morning with very little wind, I headed over to the Meander River for a spin session. The last trip here was a little disappointing as it only produced five browns, so I was hoping for a better result this trip.
I was in the river by 6:10am, in what was beautiful cool weather conditions and very clear water. Using the Aglia Furia for starters, the fishing was a little on the slow side with just the one hooked and lost during the first fifteen minutes of fishing. It was just on 6:40am when I had my first trout in hand, a small 280 gram fish and the last one before I decided to head elsewhere further up the river.
I drove a kilometre or so to the next stretch of river and was soon back into flicking the Aglia Furia around. I had a few follows before a nice brown decided to take it. One solid head shake from the trout saw it toss the lure.
I thought I would give a small hard body lure a go and that worked on one trout, after I cast the lure into a small flat medium / fast water, close to the opposite side of the river. The trout caught and released on the hard body was just another small 290 gram fish.
After that it was all quiet again except for one small hit and miss before I changed lures again. This time it was on with a small floating hard body and that little lure picked up the best trout of the session so far. It was a nice 430 gram brown that was taken at the tail end of a long medium flowing stretch of river.
That was the last fish sighted for quite some time and several changes of lures before I went back to the Aglia Furia. A few casts into a medium flowing stretch of river saw several browns come up behind the spinner, mainly out of interest, before they turned and darted off.
The full sun on the river was against me now and having no breeze to put a ripple on the surface didn't help my cause either. With the sun now covering most of the water surface I thought I would head to the upper reaches and give the rocky fast water runs a go with the Mepps Aglia Furia spinner.
Twenty minutes later I was in the fast water and it didn't take all that long before I picked up my first little brown trout on the Furia spinner. I was still undecided of how much of the fast water I would fish, mainly because in all my 54 years of chasing trout this is the toughest water to fish of all the rivers I've fished.
It's always been one that has given up trout though and that's the only reason I gave it a go again today. This is my first trip here for the season because it's just so hard on the body and it really takes its toll on me after an hour or more of fishing it.
Catching that little brown did give me some hope of catching quite a few more. As hard as it was I pushed on in the hope of catching several more trout. Well that didn't happen, all I managed was two more small browns from seven hook ups before I called it a day.
With around five hours spent chasing the trout in medium and fast water runs, with just half a dozen trout being caught, it wasn't a good enough reason for me to fish on any longer. Had the trout been larger fish I would have had a reason to fish on, however with them being small browns it wasn't worth punishing the body any further. It was 11:45am when I hopped out of the river and my day was well and truly done.
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Adrian (meppstas) Webb