The new rods a lucky rod.

[Bob9863]

I took the new bargain rod out for a test over a long lunch, in two hours I managed to break it in on a carp. I believe a new rod is cursed until it catches its 1st fish so I soaked a worm for a carp to break the curse and within 10min I had one on the bank. 

Then I switched to a lead fish and moved up the river a bit, I caught one just under 3lb and then on the very next cast I caught another slightly smaller one. 

Then I moved up the river a bit more, switched to a Jackall Transam 95 and had a few flicks and hooked into this monster 7.2lb Brown trout.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Great job Bob. Beautiful trout.

Cheers Hamish

[Bob9863]

Yes the Mitta River is running good atm, the water is high and fast but it's turning the fish on, they grab anything that's going past them. 

[ellicat]

Nice work. Good to kick the new rod off with some quality captures.

[Hweebe]

Awesome Monster Brown trout. 

Do you run into any other fishos out your way or do you pretty much have the area all to yourself? aka your very own fishing waterway?  

[Bob9863]

Atm with the trout season open there gets to be be few along the river, but some days you might have it to yourself for a while anyway. 

The lake is a different story, you generally have a stretch of bank to yourself but if a boat sees you land a good trout they can come over and troll the crap out of the water right in front of you. 

In the murry, there's usually always someone and it can even get quite crowded at times. If everyone knows what they are doing then it's OK, but if some once in a blue moon fishermen show up it can get messy. 

The good thing about working for yourself is I get my work done early morning and occasionally late afternoon/evening, so I usually get the day or most of it to myself so I can fish when few others can. 

I should be all finished up by 11:30 this morning so it's a, good thing I keep rods on the back seat of the Ute.

Arvo fish in the Mitta I think, bring one home for the wife, although a friend of ours would love a big carp for his mother.