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    Quote Originally Posted by stingray View Post
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    How’s the bucket looking now?


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    Got a taste ..bloody wind making spotting them difficult..
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    Quote Originally Posted by veitnamcam View Post
    Post spawn fish.....happens to all whitefish species.
    They have put everything they have into producing eggs and milt while not feeding much or at all and in a month or two they will be fine.
    This has been going on for 6 months now, first showed in February, which towards the end of the spawn and like most we assumed it would pass however over the winter it has got a lot more prevalent.
    Like I say have seen it a bit in the past but not for such an extended period and effecting so many fish.
    Talking to some locals on the weekend and they say over 50% of the fish are still like this.

    The flesh on these fish is very white, they are mushy when you fillet them and flakey. Has a slimy feel to it and the flesh goes off far more quickly than that of a normal fish. No one is keeping them as they are quite easy to identify when you land them as skinny and slimy.

    Once again not too sure that cause as seems to be a lot of baitfish about, but it is unusual to have this many fish in such poor condition.

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    Fishing tomorrow!

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    Got a taste ..bloody wind making spotting them difficult..
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    What lures are they taking? You know you’re allowed to catch them with a net aye


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    You know he's only gonna use them for flounder bait aye
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    Day 2, perfect conditions almost to perfect , bait very jittery.
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    Usually a few nice sea run trout lurking in those waters Joe.

    Black and gold toby worked out good for me last time

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    Your right seen a few. Chasing bait right under our feet ..just won't take the Toby, bit of rain tonight may change water clour enough for us to trip em up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stingray View Post
    Your right seen a few. Chasing bait right under our feet ..just won't take the Toby, bit of rain tonight may change water clour enough for us to trip em up.
    Got any smelt flies? Tow one of those behind your lure.......I mean bait.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stingray View Post
    Your right seen a few. Chasing bait right under our feet ..just won't take the Toby, bit of rain tonight may change water clour enough for us to trip em up.
    try a whitebait type fly..tied about a meter up from your toby...two ways to do it. either tidy swivel and thread fly on above it,curve of hook towards main line so it tucks in....or have about 8" of line out to side,either a loop..not so flash of again tiny swivel and leave a long tag end..... beauty of this is it looks like toby is chasing the smelt/bait...you will have 50% hook ups on fly/spinner but be bloody careful when go to net fish as that other hook in net and fish not in and your in the shit...
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    Rain over night so a fresh in the river ....check

    Up early to get the change of light ....check

    Plenty of out going current so the bait will swim the sides of the river
    Check.

    Got a BIG bucket for all your catch ....check

    Got black n gold Toby's....check

    All our ducks in a row...check ....

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    Size 4 or 6 grey ghost wet fly will catch the hungry browns.
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    Ah Joe those zero baits make a very light meal when you whisk them up into a fritter. Ha ha ha ha. Keep at it mate.
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