more gear arrived

I had some rods arrive today, I had purchased a bulk deal of 4 Quantum Surge rods 4-8kg 8ft graphite blanks with rod bags and a 7ft rod tube. I also got a Quantum Smoke baitcast reel and a Crucis 7ft 6-8kg baitcaster rod to pair with it. Now I need to make some room in the rod rack. I will probably go wet a line tomorrow since its a public holiday so hopefully i can put one of these rods to the test.

Full dams and rivers.

I went for a tour around this weekend to look at some local lakes and cast a few lures to fill in a morning. I visited Bostock reservoir which has risen from about 40% to overflowing this month and then headed up to Daylesford lake. I spent about an hour casting different lures and sat a yabby under a float but had no interest from the fish. I then stopped at wombat reservoir which is also overflowing at the moment and one again had no interest over the course of an hour. from there I went to Kyneton and checked out the Campaspe river which is now down from last weeks peak and flowing at a fishable rate again. I spent about half an hour casting some lures and had one hook up but dropped the fish at my feet as I got him to the edge, only a smaller redfin under 25cm. Later in the day I ended up in Cranbourne at Tackle World and purchased a Crucis baitcast rod to pair to a Quantum smoke reel I ordered last week. Yesterday I was sent to Kilmore for work and finished up fairly early so I headed on to Seymour and spent a couple of hours bait fishing the Goulburn river but again had no takers. I will post some pics of some rods when the rest of my stuff is delivered.

 bostock overflowing

 lake Daylesford

 wombat dam

Goulburn river at Seymour down a little from last weeks high water.

travelling holiday

I spent last week on the road and visited my mum in NSW as well as did some tourist stuff, as well as a little fishing. Our first stop was Narooma and I did some surf fishing and managed to catch 9 salmon up to about 60cm for the biggest. I also had a chance to fish at lake Glenbawn for a while while we had a picnic lunch and caught my first bass. The first was about 35cm of so and the second closer to 45cm although I didn't measure them before release so I'm not sure. I am also still a bit injured so I was trying to avoid over exerting myself and cut short the trip a night skipping a stay on the Murray river so I didn't need to set up my camper trailer again.