Wyangla Dam - 22-12-2010

What is with all the bloody rain ruining my fishing expeditions!!!!!
Spending christmas at the in-laws and saw it as a great opportunity to fish Wyangla, because up until recently it had apparantly been fishing its socks off! Just my luck that all the rain they had in the region has pushed the water level up from something like 40% to a massive 90% in a matter of weeks! So upon arrival at the dam I was greeted with what looked very similar to chocolate milk... only darker!!! It was bloody terrible, visability was maybe 3-5cm, even with my new spotters I was unable to see anything.
I put in at about 4.30pm and started trolling around to a little bay(well it used to be little) where I lost a good golden last time I was here. As with most of the dams in NSW that have filled quickly over the past 6 months trolling in a good depth is very difficult. This is due to the trees that have grown while the levels have been low over the past 10 years and are now covered in water. I couldn't get in to the 3-6m depth that I like to troll, so I gave up on the troll after an hour or so and peddled around to the little bay. Which looked very fishy... except for the water clarity. Pounded a heap of casts in and around the rocky banks and didnt get a touch. I tried a few different coloured spinnerbaits and a variety of hardbodies, but nothing would illicit a strike.
A dissapointing afternoon! Wyangla is such a good looking dam and I can see why it was fishing so well before all the rain! Hopefully a miracle will occur and the water will clear up within the next few days and I'll be able to get back out there.
Photos to come!

Weather
27*C
Water temp 24*C
BOM unknown
Slight wind

Old Man Creek 28-11-10

Headed out to the creek for a quick two hour session on Sunday afternoon, I shouldn’t have! Had just travelled back from Bathurst on the Sunday and was reasonably hung-over. Kanck was out there as in his Hobie but I couldn’t be bothered getting mine so I just walked the bank. The water looked really good and the creek actually came up about 15cm while I was there. I used a variety of smaller lures, teeny extractors, 50ml AC, small stumpy. I lost three lures and was not happy! I am not having the greatest of runs with lures that’s now five that I have lost in my last 4 trips. I am putting down two of the lost lures to being hung-over, I would normally take my time but I got frustrated very easily and ended up snapping the line with my retrieval pole. Very stupid of me, but as they say if you’re not getting snags you won’t catch fish.... at least I was doing one of those things! I lost a small JD lure because it got snagged around a f#@king set line. That gives me the shits.... f#@king setlines!

Kanck's 45cm Golden

I would have pumped 200 casts off the weir wall for maybe one hit, but I may have just imagined that. As soon as Kanck pulled up in his yak and let a cast go off the wall BANG he was on to a nice 45cm Golden. We both had a chuckle to each other about that, got some quick snaps and let the big fella swim off again. Kanck trolled up one other fish before this, but it was only a small Golden.

The release.

After seeing him catch that Golden off the wall I quickly realised that it wasn’t my day and I probably should have just stayed on the couch and watched a movie, so I headed back to the car.

Plenty of rain predicted for this week could play havoc with the creek again. I wouldn’t mind heading off to an impoundment after some big Golden’s this weekend. Hopefully soon I write a post about catching lots of fish and not losing lures!

Weather

• Humid & overcast
• Temp unknown
• BOM unknown
• Water Temp unknown

Results

2 Golden Perch