Hi guys
First ever report, so bare with me.
Woke up just before 4am this morning as planned, but a killer headache soon had me slinking back into the warmth of my bed, spewing that my plans of hitting up thommos was gone.
Woke again just before 7am, better, but still with a bit of a headache, so went straight down the shops to grab some nurofen, and back home to have a hot shower.
Still annoyed that my plans were shot, I thought bugger it, I'm going anyway, so after quickly getting ready, and packing the car, off I went on the long journey up to thommos.
Arrived at the gate just on 10:30am, with a bit of chill in the air, but an otherwise beautiful day, not a breath of wind, and the sun peaking through some cloud.
After setting up the rod, and renewing my fishing license, seemed to have expired a couple weeks ago, off I set on the walk up to the dam.
I had o my been walking a few minutes when an energy australia car drove up beside me and asked if I wanted a lift, seems the day was looking up,
Headed straight up the eastern side, up towards the back, where I started spinning around some tassie Devils, but didn't have any luck, not even a follow.
Pretty soon I was starting to wonder if today was going to be one of those tough days at thommos, not even seeing a fish, let alone catching one.
Pretty soon it was time to put on my go to lure, the sebile onduspoon in rainbow trout.
After a couple of casts, my first follow, and a few more later another follow.
Kept spinning and walking and soon made my way towards the back of the eastern side when it happened, I casted, I waited for the lure to sink, started to wind, and bang, I'm snagged, or so I thought, the snag started to run!
After a quick tussle, up came this beauty, I fat rainbow, later measured at 50cm, and heavy!
Ended up the only fish of the day, and after a couple more follows, it was time to head home, happy that I had cracked a new PB.
My bad for the long post.
Weapon of choice was a pflueger Trion 2-4kg, with a shimano Stradic fj 2500.
As stated earlier, sebile onduspoon rainbow trout was the lure of choice.
I'll post a pic once I work out how to post it.