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| 8 February2008, Jerome Gardiner |
| Location: |
Bunyip River |
Time: |
4pm-7.30pm |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Trout |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Drifting worms |
| Fish Caught: |
1 x trout @ 30cm |
| Comments: |
Decided to drift for the first time after getting nothing with worms on bottom. Drifting on the retrieve caught a nice browny. |
| 18 December 2007, Michael |
| Location: |
Bunyip River |
Time: |
10am-3pm |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Trout, blackfish |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Celta |
| Fish Caught: |
None |
| Comments: |
Brett mentions green fish in an earlier post. I hope he doesn't mean the Australian greyling. They have a nice green sheen to them.
Good eating maybe, but they are a completely protected species and targeting them is illegal. |
| 2 April 2007, Aaron Palmer |
| Location: |
Bunyip River |
Time: |
10am-3pm |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Brown trout |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Spinners |
| Fish Caught: |
4 x brown trout @ 1kg plus
2 x brown trout @ 900g
2 x brown trout @ fish finger size |
| Comments: |
There were fish everywhere again, I should have had a huge one but it got off. |
| 25 February 2007, Aaron |
| Location: |
Bunyip River |
Time: |
1.30pm-4pm |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Browns |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Spinner, hard-bodied lure |
| Fish Caught: |
1 x brown @ 55cm-2.5kg
4 x brown @ 30cm-40cm |
| Comments: |
We had just come back from mountain bike riding and decided to go for a quick fish. It was hot and snakes were about. I caught all my fish on spinners. Brett was using a hardbodied lure and didn't even get a strike so he decided to change to a spinner and caught a brown almost instantly. |
| 26 January 2007, Brett Murris |
| Location: |
Bunyip River |
Time: |
10am-2am |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Murray cod, greenfish, rainbow trout |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
3g red rum squidgy wriggler, 2g weighted brown eye billy bass Berkley deep diver |
| Fish Caught: |
1 x Murray cod @ 4kg
2 x rainbow trout @ 900g
2 x rainbow trout @ 1.5kg + |
| Comments: |
The Bunyip River is really fishing well at the moment, the warmer water temperatures allow the Murray cod to readily take the brown eyed billy bass Berkely deep divers. I have found that the rainbows have also been taking a sniff at the red rum squidgy wriggler of late - a wise lure selection if fishing the Bunyip. The greenfish seem to have gone off the bite although when the water rises there will be more wombats for them to catch. Really try fishing in the narrow deep channels as that's where the greenfish usually are and they are a fine table fish. Cheers. |
| 19 January 2007, Aaron & Brett |
| Location: |
Bunyip |
Time: |
All day |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Brown trout, blackfish |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Soft plastics, grass hoppers, bush cockroach |
| Fish Caught: |
2 x browns @ 1kg+
1 x blackfish @ 2kg, 45cm+
1 x short-finned eel @ 80cm |
| Comments: |
The Lower Bunyip is really firing, we started off the day flicking lures around snags and in deep holes but when access got minimal we decided to bait fish which we had hardly done before. We caught some native local bait and pulled in a huge blackfish (biggest one we had ever seen). |
| 1 January 2006, Brett & Aaron |
| Location: |
Bunyip |
Time: |
After lunch |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Trout, blackfish |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Spinnerbaits, hard-bodied, deep dive and squirmy lures |
| Fish Caught: |
2 x trout @ 800g
11 x trout @ 1.3kg-2kg |
| Comments: |
This was our best day ever. We anticipated catching only a few small trout but the day was action packed with strikes in every hole. Brett ended up catching 5 and I ended up catching 8, a new PB. This was an awesome day. :) |
| 12 August 2006, Mark |
| Location: |
Koo Wee Rup |
Time: |
1pm-5pm |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Estuary perch |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Ecogear SX 40, Berkley Gulp 6" sandworm |
| Fish Caught: |
None. |
| Comments: |
Good rising tide, just no fish! Saw some other people catching some juvenile salmon and whiting near the lookout. (See photo in Gallery section.) |
| 14 January 2006, Daniel Beechey |
| Location: |
Bunyip River |
Time: |
Night |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Eels, shark bait |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Bait |
| Fish Caught: |
2 x tupong @ 20cm-22cm
3 x eel @ 35cm-40cm
1 x eel @ 60cm |
| Comments: |
Full moon, nice night, got what we wanted. (See photo in Gallery Section.) |
| 15 April 2002, Paul Rahman |
| Location: |
Bunyip River |
Time: |
4-6.30pm |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Brown trout, rainbow trout |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Maggots and worms |
| Fish Caught: |
1 x brown trout @ 20cm
3 x rainbow trout @ 11-26cm |
| Comments: |
Bank overgrown a lot with blackberries. Fished a small pool with unweighted worms and maggots with a berley cage. Only had the 4 bites which led to 4 fish. All rainbows taken on maggots and brown taken on unweighted worms. Saw a lot of small baitfish moving up the river but no trout chasing them. |
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