Past weekend saw me hit some of the waters close to home with Mark, aka Dicko, from the fishing club. Our plan was to fish Goulburn River, unfortunately it was still running dirty from the rains we received on New Year's Eve. To my surprise Eildon Pondage was no different. This left us with only one option, Lake Eildon. We found some nice looking water where we both quickly picked up a couple of redfins, but we quickly grew bored of this, we needed some trout. We decided to check in at the Goulburn Valley Fly Fishing Centre. On Antony's advice, we hit the Rubi. What a great advice it was, the river was the only fishable running water we saw in the area for the whole day. In a two hour session we both hooked into some 30 cm plus trout and landed our first Mr Speckles for the New Year. Oh yeah, my first fish on the x-mas pressie too, the Waterworks Velocity, niceee...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Rubicon, First Fish for 2010
Past weekend saw me hit some of the waters close to home with Mark, aka Dicko, from the fishing club. Our plan was to fish Goulburn River, unfortunately it was still running dirty from the rains we received on New Year's Eve. To my surprise Eildon Pondage was no different. This left us with only one option, Lake Eildon. We found some nice looking water where we both quickly picked up a couple of redfins, but we quickly grew bored of this, we needed some trout. We decided to check in at the Goulburn Valley Fly Fishing Centre. On Antony's advice, we hit the Rubi. What a great advice it was, the river was the only fishable running water we saw in the area for the whole day. In a two hour session we both hooked into some 30 cm plus trout and landed our first Mr Speckles for the New Year. Oh yeah, my first fish on the x-mas pressie too, the Waterworks Velocity, niceee...
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Lake Eildon Camping Trip
After years of neglect it was time to pull out the old family tent from under the house and put it to some good use. The first camping trip for Julia and me together seemed to be just the occasion for this. With the car loaded to the roof we set out on our mini adventure to Eildon National Park. As we did not have to be at the camp site till midday we took the longer route through Yea, via the historic Cheviot tunnel. A little detour definitely worth taking.
Lake Eildon looked picture prefect as always. It's famous "serenity" was somewhat diminished by the number of cars and people present. This was the biggest number of cars I've ever seen on a boat ramp. A camera with a wide lens was needed to truly capture this, as the cars continue on either side of the above photo.
Once put up, the tent looked surprisingly good for it's age. It's big size meant camping in style, or "glamping" (glamour camping) as Julia called it. In fact the tent did so well that I decided to scrap my plans of selling it.
Both Julia and I enjoyed this short camping excursion and have decided to do few more of these in the near future.
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