Old Man Creek x 3 & Mundowy rocks 20th 21st 23rd November



Small Cod taken late Saturday afternoon.



Headed out to the creek with Kanck on Saturday arvo for a quick session, went straight up to the weir and was disappointed with the water clarity, it had cleared a little but not enough. Punched over a thousand cast in and around the weir with a only a small cod and two lost lures to show for it. The most interesting point was that I picked up the cod as soon as the shadows came across the water. It was stinking hot and a tough session, but we thought it might settle a bit more over night and be clear enough for lures in the morning.

Water coming over the wall...
Has been a rarity of recent years.
 Now its becoming a regular thing.

Headed back out at 5:30am with Kanck and was fishing at the weir by 6:00am. Kanck hooked up to something in the fast water but alas, the hooks didn’t set. After an hour or so with no result we decided to head over the Mundowy rocks for a look. We thought the river would be a little dirty but it couldn’t hurt to give it a go. We both tied on spinnerbaits Kanck had a small profiled natural coloured one and I had a fairly large purple and green one. I had a terrible start and managed to snag up 5 or 6 times which was not helping my frustration levels. When I finally got to make some effective casts my spinnerbait was demolished with a very savage strike. I called this fish for 70cm+ but it turned out to be a very fit and angry 51cm trout cod. These things hit like freight trains and it was a nice change to what was turning out to be a very tough session. It's certainly starting to heat up not that summer is here. That was enough for us and we fished our way back to the car with no result and headed home.

Bloody Camera on the wrong setting!

Tuesday afternoon I headed back out to the creek because it looked like some storms were starting to roll in and the water level had dropped quite significantly. I thought things were looking promising, within 20 casts I managed to pull a very small 18cm trout cod from the fast water at the weir. The water was only coming over the main release part of the weir wall and it was creating some great looking water. Although it looked great, no fish seemed to like it. I managed to find a couple of nice lures on my way back to the car, but overall is was a disspointing session.

51cm of Trout Cod

My thoughts are that the Goldens may have either finished spawning or made their way further up river when the water was flowing over the wier. The water had dropped significantly this week and once the banks dry out a bit I think I will resort back to my normal approach, rather that focusing on the wier area.