Sunday, August 31, 2008

Aug 28 Carbondale river

Wholesale, LethMaverick and myself cut out of work early and headed out to Carbondale. We were on the river by 2:30 and unfortunately the wind didn't want to cooperated and bug activity was minimal. LethMaverick was able to pick up a couple nice cutties on royal wulffs but few and far between. A nice fat 14 1/2 was the cutty highlight.


With limited surface action early and the knowledge of big bully's lurking in the water, Wholesale and myself changed our focus to double bunny streamers and were rewarded with some nice action. First hole, to my surprise a big bully came flying out from under a shelf to hit the white bunny. Next cast he hit it again but snapped me off after a couple of head shakes.

Wholesale was up next and did not disappoint. The next pool, we both had strikes but finally hooked into a good one. With LethMaverick on the camera (Wholesale's new toy) and me on the net. Wholesale was able to get this 23" pig to hand.




We managed a couple more strikes but nothing to hand. Despite low numbers, turned out to be a fun day hunting for Bulls.


On a side note: Wholesale's new camera takes great photos and the underwater pics are great

1 comment:

Blind squirrel said...

Talked with the father in law yesterday, he was fishing on hidden creek. Comes into the oldman around km 8 from the south, you can not see it from the road, it is "hidden", don't know if to many people know about it, anyway, caught about 15, all good size, no little ones, only caught fish in the pools, none where you would expect to catch them between pools. Says he saw and touched with his fly rod a 30" bully just sitting along the bank, saw a handful of other smaller ones too. He reckons the bully's are eating all the little guys.