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So we've had a really fun couple of days. So far we came out yesterday, was a beautiful sunny day
with a little bit of wind. Great conditions for fishing. We pulled off a few really nice fish
and then we went back and made some awesome trout recipes. Now today might not look as nice you know
it's a little bit cloudy it's a little bit windier but in fact the conditions today are even better
for fishing on the lake. As you saw yesterday we had a lot of fish that came and looked at the
fly but didn't necessarily want to commit. With a bit of lower light levels and some chop on the
water those fish turn from window shoppers into hunters. So today we're going to go back out see
if we can't get a few more fish, have a bit of fun try a few new different techniques and show
you a couple of the differences the conditions can make especially when you're lake fishing [Music]
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Now I've just lost another fish which I don't get demoralized about it means there are fish around
and that they're eating and it just so happened to coincide with a little bit of wind coming into
this bay. A little bit of chop that can just make a fish a little bit more active and happy to feed
on the surface and he absolutely smoked that. He just missed it basically which is great because
if they're being that aggressive means hopefully they'll turn on. This time of the year you can
often fish gentleman's hours I mean we didn't get out on the water until about 9:30 and it's about
11 now and the fish have really just started to wake up so it's great if you want to sleep in. It's
also quite nice when it's a beautiful spring day like this. Now let's see if I can't actually catch
a fish today, you think I'd be able to it is my job. Oh let himself go. I mean that's the best possible
outcome with those little guys and it's great to see he actually ate that on a very aggressive
retrieve so I know the retrieve I'm doing now is going to get results. We came in here yesterday
along this old fallen tree and I actually got whacked by a really nice big brown. Now I'm fully
expecting him to be back here today. What a lot of people don't tend to think about is that fish
actually get territorial in Lakes, especially big brown trout. Now we all know they get territorial
in rivers and will sit by the same spot again and again they do the exact same thing in lakes
especially around big structure points like trees, big cracks in rocks that also lead from
deep water into shallow water which is exactly what this tree does it's at the start of this
shallow bay and it goes from quite deep to quite shallow it's a great little ambush point
for him to grab anything that's working from the deep water into the shallow water or vice versa
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Now we had a bit of a tough time in our first spot our initial plan looked pretty good, we had
good wind, good cover, we knew the fish were there because we saw them yesterday but it didn't really
pan out. We saw a couple fish but it wasn't red hot now if you're not adapting you're not fishing.
We've come over to the other side of the dam where we've got much better wind. There's also
in this bay through here there's a lot of good structure a lot of trees and that sort of thing
which tends to hold fish no matter what. So we're going to go see if a change of the side of the
lake is going to help now that we've got that wind pushing into this bay as well as this structure.
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yep little torpedo
he hit it like he was trying much harder
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trick shot now we've just moved into this really
nice snaggy bay that's got awesome wind blowing into it. Does present
a few difficulties in casting hence, I just hit that tree but if I do hit a fish in here what
I want to do is go really hard on it, try and keep its head up above the surface, don't let
it get down in amongst the snags, keep it jumping you might lose it in the air but you're almost
definitely going to lose it around a tree. Now I'll go get this fly out of this tree and go back to it
[Music] Look at this thing! It's got his head down at the moment that's a
proper fish! Oh yeah that's a hard time to lift this one that's a good fish
Beautiful brown slide on in. Oh in the net there we go fantastic that is oh a cracker that's
what we're looking for. That is a fat brownie he is in fantastic condition, solid as, beautiful fish.
I love when a plan comes together.
Well there you go a few days fishing up here in the high country in the lakes which are just going
to keep getting better and better this season with all the snowmelt and rain that we've been getting.
We had a really cool day. On the first day we had nice sun, a little bit of breeze, we got some nice
fish and we had a few come and really look at the fly. We have made some nice recipes and then
we came out today with a bit of cloud and we actually did a little better on numbers of fish.
Not as many big ones we did get one cracker which was awesome fun. Now we're gonna head
home, boost out of here we've got to get back to Tumut. I've gotta get this cameraman back to a shop
Never break the third wall! [Laughter]