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The trout thread... - Marto - 10-01-2009

Hey Anguis,

Yep trout season started Sep 1.

Here are the pics of the trout I caught last Sunday, in a small stream up in the hills - northern Jarrah forest. Caught him in the water pictured on an unweighted worm. Had to jump in the water to lift him out cause I had no net an only 4lb line. Saw a few more upstream but as you can see it's pretty tough scrub bashing to get to the fish in these small streams.

Too bad trout are an introduced predator that have negative impacts on native aquatic life in Australia, as you can see from gut contents - these are native Gallaxias.

Trout tasted nice for dinner though... Smile

Didn't see any nags Viking...

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Re: The trout thread... - Anguis - 10-01-2009

Great fish, man - beautiful color! It must have set your heart racing with 4 lb. test. . !

Here are some shots from my family's July trip to Colorado:

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Mountain stream a short walk from where we stayed - water so cold the 'nads get sucked up into your throat. . .

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Small, but feisty and beautiful! These are cutthroat trout from the Rockies of Colorado, over by Breckenridge. We were fly fishing, using an elk hair caddis and some type of nymph (I don't know the name).

Re: The trout thread... - Marto - 10-01-2009

Awesome. I need to try find the pics of the cutthroats I caught when I was in Co and see if they are the same spp. In the meantime here is a writeup I did, think this was last year's trip:

(Note Redfin Perch are an introduced pest in Australia and it is illegal to return them to the water.)

Well it was 1st of September last Friday here in Western Australia so CDDD Duggin and myself headed into the Northern forests for our annual start of season trip to rid our waterways of some introduced feral fish... :lol:

Started out at sparrow's fart in the rain just when it was getting light...
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There was a lot of fog and low cloud as we drove through the forest but luckily the rain was easing up...
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The logged coups weren't too pretty to look at... but neither are those ugly pine plantations I guess...
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We got to the first river we planned to fish and the wattles were in full bloom...
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The water level was pretty high but still fishable...
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Managed only one fish here...
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...so we decided to move on and try some skinny water fishing...
where the going was pretty thick at times...
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Since we were finding the R2Sea 200mm dumbbell poppers hard to cast in the thick riparian zone we decided to switch to the humble earthworm....
....which resulted in many fish...
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Releasing a fish...
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...and it swimming off...
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We heard some sort of growling noise, had a feeling we were being followed, caught a glimpse of something in the undergrowth...
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....so we decided to leave, doing a head tilt at at this fish ladder on the way out...
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This time we found ourselves at a picturesque small impoundment...
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...where the water level was quite low but quite fishable...
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CDDD hooked up onto a nice redfin and landed it with an airborne whip of his 88 kilo line and 26.5 lb star sinker...
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...and then another....
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The redfin were quite hungry...
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...yes we slayed them...[they are great eating...]...
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The sun was slowly setting over our spot illuminating the surrounding green hills where cattle were fornicating...
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...and we were getting hungry so we left with an esky full of nice redfin to fry up...
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Overall an interesting trip for the start of the season with around 30 trout caught and even more redfin, with a variety of methods and locations thrown in. Hope you enjoyed the story and pics... Big Grin

Re: The trout thread... - Overlord - 10-02-2009

(10-01-2009, 10:47 PM)Marto link Wrote: Releasing a fish...
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If this was the fish you released I'm sorry to say you are better off killing him. He can't eat anything anyway with that injured mouth so he'll slowly starve to death.

Don't play with food, kill it and play OFP  8)

Re: The trout thread... - Zwobot - 10-02-2009

Nice landscapes, disgusting fish...

Re: The trout thread... - Marto - 10-02-2009

You don't like fish Zwobot?

Re: The trout thread... - Marto - 10-04-2009

Here is a writeup I did of a trip down south in the Karri forest:

Here are some pics of some spotted ferals caught passing through Pemberton, in the southwest of WA recently:

A GIANT Karri tree:
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Karri forest:
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An old logging bridge, that was falling apart, decided to throw a lure around here:
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The result; a spotted feral rainbow vermin trout :wink: :
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....caught from behind that long, straight log on the other side...
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Another one:
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mmmm.... trout flesh......
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mmmm.... beef.....
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Yellow orchid in the forest:
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Another orchid:
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Hope you enjoyed the pics....

Re: The trout thread... - Anguis - 10-04-2009

Great writeups! Can you explain more about the streams? Spring fed? Mountains? How do you find these places?

Re: The trout thread... - Zwobot - 10-04-2009

(10-02-2009, 08:05 PM)Marto link Wrote: You don't like fish Zwobot?
No I don't. But it is said that they are healthy to eat, at least sea water fish.

There is a mistake in your writeup Marto: in the beginning the order of pictures is landscape - dead fish - landscape - dead fish. But then you have beef/landscape - flower !?! WTH is the dead beef picture  Big Grin

Re: The trout thread... - Marto - 10-04-2009

(10-04-2009, 05:03 AM)Anguis Viridis link Wrote: Great writeups! Can you explain more about the streams? Spring fed? Mountains? How do you find these places?

Not really spring fed just rainwater from forests in the catchment areas up in the hills. Winter is the wet season in this part of the country and we've had a shitload of rainfall the last few months (after several years of drought) so the streams are pretty full. We aint got mountains here in SW WA only "hills". Highest mountain in SW Aust is Mt Bluff about 1100m.... Smile

The trout are lucky to breed, let alone survive the summer, although there are a few streams deep in the forrest where they do breed. Not the right substrate, temps etc. Numbers are kept up with yearly stocking. Big debates here in Aust re trout - they are introduced predators that have been shown to have negative impacts on native fish, and other aquatic life. So I have no prob whacking them over the head for a feed... Wink Lots of introduced redfin perch in the rivers and impoundments too - and they are a worse pest - illegal to release back once caught - just like carp too.

There is only one native freshwater species worth angling for in the SW - freshwater cobbler - a catfish. Nice to eat too. Marron - v. large freshwater crays (2nd biggest after giant Tasmanian crays I think). Different story over east and up north in the freshwater - over east - huge Murray cod, golden, silver and maquarie perch and my fav - Australian bass - awesome fish. Up north there is heaps - Barramundi the most popular, others like Sooty grunter are awesome too. Just gotta watch the crocs. We even have huge freshwater sawfish up north that grow to 7 metres!

Re: The trout thread... - Marto - 10-04-2009

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You don't like fish Zwobot?
No I don't. But it is said that they are healthy to eat, at least sea water fish.

There is a mistake in your writeup Marto: in the beginning the order of pictures is landscape - dead fish - landscape - dead fish. But then you have beef/landscape - flower !?! WTH is the dead beef picture  Big Grin
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Haha - those steers did get slaughtered sometime between then and now - that was on a friends farm that backs onto the river - some ok fishing if you brave the tiger snakes in the back paddock on the way to the river - most I've ever seen.

That beef prob ended up exported to Japan as premium Aussie Beef for top $$$.

Re: The trout thread... - Overlord - 10-04-2009

Plz Marto, try to use thumbnails on your pictures, will save server bandwidth, loading time, and make a page reasonable long. Smile

Re: The trout thread... - Marto - 10-04-2009

Pictures are not using server bandwidth.

Re: The trout thread... - Anguis - 10-06-2009

I checked out info on Australian Bass - they look pretty cool! Sort of like a cross between our smallmouth and largemouth bass. The smallmouth bass is one of my favorite fish to catch (the only non-trout in my top five) - pound-for-pound the fightingest fish I've ever caught. When trout season closes, I start turning my attention to them (their season is much longer).
Brown trout are introduced predators (imported from Germany and, I think, Scotland) that compete with the native Brook trout over here. However, they generally are very welcome, because they tolerate habitat that can't support brookies very well.

Re: The trout thread... - slash [fin] - 10-11-2009

Yes, fishing is one of the greatest hobbies this world can offer for a man.
I did my part also last weekend. I jumped into my car and turned steering wheel towards a place that my friend gave a hint about. Trip was reasonable short and scenery to that place was quite nice, sun was shining but i bet temp was bit lower than in places of Marto and Anguis. When i arrived to the place i was surprised how good the place was.
Here´s the first catch i got only couple minutes after arriving to that place :
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Yum yum!