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Mountain Bait and Tackle fishing

By JOHN METHVEN
LAKE Eildon is currently at 28.5 per cent capacity, which is about eight per cent higher than the same time last year.
The inflows are averaging 1800 megalitres, which is causing the lake to rise about three centimetres a day. Mixed reports have come in on the fishing side of things with some anglers targeting the Big River Arm and struggling to land fish, and others catching 10 poundplus brown trout.
Out the front of Jerusalem Creek and up to the main wall has produced brown trout up to two pounds. Goughs Bay has also produced brown trout to two pounds and yellow belly to four pounds through flat line trolling with Tassie devils and metal spoons.
The Eildon Pondage is under 50 per cent full, so there are a lot of weed beds showing. Brown and rainbow trout up to eight pound have been caught casting lures in the old river bed.
For the bait fisherpeople, the ageold maggot and mealworm with burley and burley feeders have produced trout along with scrub worms under a bubble float. Fly fishers have had luck with woolly bugger flies, black and brown the best colours.

The Murray

Between Yarrawonga and Echuca in the past month the Murray has produced numerous crayfish, enough for a feed each evening. Murray cod have also been reported around the Barhma State Forest area up to 10 kilograms. Not many on the troll or lure cast, but bait fishing with yabbies hard in against the steep banks and snags has been productive.

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