Dartmouth Dam - Nov 2008
You might be going to give this nice brown a kiss, but we're not throwing her back Barry "Bazza" Kerr! This trip was a change from my usual 'waving the wand' with us spending our time trolling the dam. This was a learning experience for me with us using what I referred to as christmas decorations, but in truth called Ford Fender rigs. For those not familiar with these, they are metal plates about 3 inches in length with reflective surfaces that rotate and send out beams of light in every direction as they are trolled through the water. Attached about a meter behind these is attached a worm, dragon fly nymph, or in my case a Tassie Devil lure. In the case of this fish I had a pink Tassie on the rig which after an hour of dragging across the lake had not produced a fish. I switched over to a yellow with black stripes (which the guys in Tassie on our recent trip said were producing all the fish their) and within 5 minutes we had a hit and catch of the brown pitured above. Our host Chris "TOR" Davies (pitured top) put the trip together and had the unenviable task of weathering the weather through cold, wind, rain and temperatures that had our teeth chattering in the front end of the boat. While the fish were sparse, the food, laughter and hopsitality were plentiful and made the trip a memorable event.
You might be going to give this nice brown a kiss, but we're not throwing her back Barry "Bazza" Kerr! This trip was a change from my usual 'waving the wand' with us spending our time trolling the dam. This was a learning experience for me with us using what I referred to as christmas decorations, but in truth called Ford Fender rigs. For those not familiar with these, they are metal plates about 3 inches in length with reflective surfaces that rotate and send out beams of light in every direction as they are trolled through the water. Attached about a meter behind these is attached a worm, dragon fly nymph, or in my case a Tassie Devil lure. In the case of this fish I had a pink Tassie on the rig which after an hour of dragging across the lake had not produced a fish. I switched over to a yellow with black stripes (which the guys in Tassie on our recent trip said were producing all the fish their) and within 5 minutes we had a hit and catch of the brown pitured above. Our host Chris "TOR" Davies (pitured top) put the trip together and had the unenviable task of weathering the weather through cold, wind, rain and temperatures that had our teeth chattering in the front end of the boat. While the fish were sparse, the food, laughter and hopsitality were plentiful and made the trip a memorable event.
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