Redfin, redfin and more redfin.

I got up early this morning and drove an hour or so to Kyneton to go fishing on the Campaspe river and got a line in the water a tad before 7am. the first fish was taken on a scrub worm within a few minutes and they kept coming after that. I kept re-baiting the sleeper rod even though I wasn't paying it much attention and it accounted for 3 of the total caught but the lures were in a place of their own today. I had started with squidgeys and fished several different types of curl and paddle tail patterns and a couple of yabby shapes as well landing 5 or 6 fish but losing most of the tackle to submerged timber and rocks. I then switched to hard body divers as the sun hit the water and started dragging in fish after fish. I walked around the pool and fished an area not usually fished by anyone and started catching almost a fish a cast for twenty minutes. The times I didn't land a fish I was hooked up and dropped one at some point through the retrieve. Probably the best half hour of fishing in a few years that I have seen. I ended up taking home 8 redfin and released 13 with most of the one I let go around 15cm. I took home 1 fish around 35cm 2 around 30cm and 1 just over 25cm and another 4 a little over 20cm. The water temp had jumped probably 6 or 7 degrees since I last fished and the fish were all fat and agressive with some fish following the lures all the way to my feet attacking repeatedly.

 

Starting to get bigger.

One of the better ones.

Perfect morning.

Caught around 15 this size.