The Fishing

Our 16 acres of lakes are stocked with brown and rainbow trout and are open all year. The fish range in size from fingerlings to 15lb monsters with the average going around 2lb. There are plenty of fish in the 4-6lb class to tangle with as well as a healthy number of 10lb + fish. They fish best in the cooler months with April to November the peak times. They operate under a strict catch and release policy and offer some very interesting fly fishing.

Midges

First and last light we often get a hatch of midge. This occurs throughout most of the year with the only exception being in the middle of summer. Late Autumn, winter and early spring is the best time to fish these hatches.

During winter we get hatches of midge throughout the day and rising fish are often the result. These trout, which are often very large specimens will feed on these tiny critters all day. A big brown has to eat a lot of midge to be worth its while!

We have devised a number of patterns and techniques to match these hatches, most of which are based around fishing dry flies. The windward shores of the lakes are always the best as the sneaky browns work on the slicks of naturals trapped in the film. Also the edges where the calm surfaces meet the windblown are real hotspots. This is perhaps the best fishing to be found statewide at this time of year.

Baitfish

We have a lot of different baitfish in our lakes as well as small redfin and other fish species. Our trout can be found cruising the edges looking for these sources of protein. Concentrating on structure such as fences, logs, weed beds, lake inflows and outflows will yield results and just sitting and waiting, fly ready to cast is the preferred method.

Mudeyes and Damselflies

Mudeye fishing at night is well worthwhile from mid spring onwards. Fishing out of a float tube, raft or even the bank will produce some outsized fish using this method. But mudeyes play a distant second to the damselfly fishing we have.

Our lakes are not deep and we are continually exchanging the water, topping our lakes up every night from the Goulburn, and so we have extensive cold water weed beds. In these weed beds we have a proliferation of damselfly's. These insects are lime to green to olive to brown to straw colored. The weed beds are thick with them and the fish hunt them consistently more than anything else in our lakes. Spring is the peak time for this fishing but the fish will take a slowly retrieved damsel at any time.

Other Fishing

During summer we have terrific falls of beetles thanks to the gum trees that line the northern and eastern sides of our properties. Any warm wind from those directions see hundreds of beetles dropping into the water.

Also in late spring we get terrific termite hatches and it is nothing at these times to see the whole lake alive with fish. Hundreds of rises all over.

When things are tough a small wet fly such as a Tom Jones, Woolly Bugger, Matuka, BMS will often bring results.

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