Arrived at the Khancoban dam wall with Matt Rava at about 7am on Friday morning with the intention to work our way downstream casting lures for some Trout. However the after effects of the beers we had rthe night before swayed us into pretty much staying put on a 200m section of the river. 
Much to our disappointment our first few cast were met with annoying little Redfin. This continued for about an hour, at which point we had caught well over 40 of these fish but only a few decent sized ones. Matty's Celta did get smashed by something very big, the size of the run and the speed of the run this fish made lead us to believe that it was surely a big Trout. Unfortunatly the big fella got enough line out to get snagged up and eventually break free. Very disappointing moment!!!!!!!
Later on after a drive downstream we came back to this stretch of the river, except fished the other side. Ravs managed to pull in a very well conditioned and beautifully marked Brown Trout of about a 1.5lb.
Unfortunatly this was the only trout we would land. The river was in very high flow during this session and I think if there was a little less water being released we may have got onto a few more trout. The fast water and high water level made it extremely difficult to get our lures down to the riverbed where the Trout would have been holding. I will surely return during Autumn!
One thing I should mention is the size of the preserved Trout on the wall in the Khancoban pub, only one has its official measurments on display and was 97cm long and weighed 22lbs, and there was another one next to it that was bigger.
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