The Posh pest

A little while back I said i was going to give trout fishing a try at a spot near my friends house in the southern highlands. Well today was that day.  My alarm was set for 6am so i could get an early start. I had a quick coffee and pecked my wife on the cheek and then i was off.

now looking back if you remember in August i posted a youtube video of a fishing segment called inside fishing where they were spinning for trout in a small "secret" stream. I recognised one scene from this video where they were at a pool at the bottom of a waterfall... this was my first port of call.

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I started casting about with a small hard bodied lure but realised within a few casts my lure probably wasn't hitting the strike zone (deep). I then put a small spinning blade lure and cast that around the pool. after about the 3rd cast in the back of the pool (pictured right) I got a hookup!  I remembered that the guys from Inside Fishing scored a fish from this pool and it was a small fish of maybe 20cm, but this seemed a bit bigger and was certainly doing a good job of not coming in. there was''t much room for the fish to move in this pool so it generally swam back and forth and towards the back of the pool. I leaped and that's when i knew it was a good one and not i tiddler like in the video. The trout was a good 40cm all up.

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I worked my was up stream from here stopping frequently, and then down stream as far as i could go. This was my only fish even though I saw several feeding on the surface. The stream its self is quite pretty and tranquil but choked by fallen trees... I lost 4 lures. Still this was a fishing adventure I will never forget.

Here is a link to that video if you don't want to look back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEgYfUwmAhs

Tight lines everyone!

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