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General Category => Fishing Reports => Topic started by: aussiebasser on January 07, 2011, 12:48:52 PM
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We hit the water soon after the lake was re-opened on Tuesday afternoon. Poked around Tuesday and Wednesday having a look see. There were a lot of fish hugging the bottom at 70 feet. Floating weed upstream from Dingo Island made fishing difficult. The water was quite dirty everywhere. It is a very big lake now, and will take a little while to settle down. My guess is that the lake has rolled with all the colder floodwaters entering. There may be an oxygen rich layer 70' down. Water temps varied from 27 to 30 degrees in places.
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Was Randall there the same time as you? :) :)
Toddy
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Was Randall there the same time as you? :) :)
Toddy
Sounds like an Astroboy question there Mervyn.... :P
fitz..
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I had to ask. ;D ;D ;D
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Not a sign of Randall. With only 4 vehicles at the ramp most days it would have been easy to spot him too.
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We hit the water soon after the lake was re-opened on Tuesday afternoon. Poked around Tuesday and Wednesday having a look see. There were a lot of fish hugging the bottom at 70 feet. Floating weed upstream from Dingo Island made fishing difficult. The water was quite dirty everywhere. It is a very big lake now, and will take a little while to settle down. My guess is that the lake has rolled with all the colder floodwaters entering. There may be an oxygen rich layer 70' down. Water temps varied from 27 to 30 degrees in places.
Interesting stuff .........
I dont know the answer ....... but could it be that the fish are sitting at a level where the pressure is what they are used to (height above sea level) - does a rise in water levels make the fish want to go deeper ? ....... I was thinking the other day why we saw fish sitting in deeper water (off points) and why fish were not being caught in what I thought were ideal conditions in shallower water :-\ . .... fish rise and fall in the water column with changing barometric pressure ! . ...... dunno!
Chris
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We had 3 barra follow surface lures today, in turbo mode, but didn't actually strike. Two good ones and a smaller model. The number of fish and the various places that we sounded them was astonishing. Who'd of known that some went south with the flow. At times, there'd be two and three fish on the sounder screen every ten seconds for minutes on end- and that's in 15-20ft of water where a transducer covers a very tiny area of the actual bottom. Some of those banks we fished would contain hundreds of fish. The water colour and temp varied considerably. Many barra were found from 5 ft to 30 ft, and even in the thick weed banks amongst schools of gar. Awoonga has been flowing over for nearly a month now; I wouldn't be stressing about fish losses if I were anyone else- and with 100,000 more fingerlings being released tomorrow, the future looks BRIGHT.
Johnny Mitchell