A couple of Echo highlights

Lovely fish as for the rest of the story we believe you
Cheers Graeme

So here's an interesting story - I went paddling yesterday on Lake Burley Griffin, and heading around the first bend I saw something swimming in the middle of the lake that didn't look like the usual water life cruising around. I paddled over and found an Ewok looking thing struggling to keep it's head above water. After he dried out on the front of the kayak he looked like this...



I kept paddling whilst keeping a lookout along the bank for anyone who may have been searching for him and picked up two nice goldens...





I'm not sure if he was excited about the first fish, or if he was simply addicted to water, because he jumped in again - this time knocking my Loomis GLX/Stradic setup in with him. Straight to the bottom of LBG it went. After grabbing him again, I was really lucky to get hold of the baby Merrit that was floating in the water and attached to the outfit at the bottom of the lake.

I took him back home and after Zoe put a post in the lost pet section through Facebook he was back with his owners by late evening.

There's been a lot of very good Goldens around lately. Here's a few...









Cheers,

Danny.

Nice goldens dan,,,no sure about the dog

You done good Danny, lovely lures and great fish 

A couple of my mates went out for a paddle today (I couldn't) to a smaller urban lake that we have suspected for some time would have a good little population of relatively untouched Golden Perch. My phone beeped at 5.30 this arvo with these photos. It was Dave's biggest Golden Perch to date and went 65cm. The Jinjulu pictured is one of the first four I ever carved, and has been around. I lost it to a snag last summer, then after getting a different lure caught on the same snag a couple of days later it floated up out of the depths. It then sat in the car for half the year, Phil then stole it and Dave then stole it off him. Then it caught this....







Cheers,

Danny.

Dan great fishyour lures really work it must be those eyes.......those fat goldens can't resist them . You need to give those echos a run at Windamere, they would be dynamite. Cheers pete happy new year......

That is one monster yellowbelly.   Bet you don't show those mates your deceptions

Getting some good fish on your lures Danny! Happy new year!

Thanks Steiny and Cliff.

Cheers,

Danny.

Very satisfying to see your lures working well
Cheers Graeme

Thanks Graeme and Dave. Quite a few photos however I wanted to show them all as they came up well with the glassy water and lower light, plus all on different lures.

Cheers,

Danny.

Danny are all those yellows caught on the back trebles
Cheers Graeme

Well done Danny it is good to see a what starts from a piece of wood and turns into a lure that produces the goods .

Jindabyne is fishing really well at the moment. We had an overnight stay there and although it was a partner friendly trip (I stayed clear of the ridiculously early mornings or fishing after dark) we still managed some very nice fish. 7 or 8 nice browns and a handful of acrobatic rainbows ensured a couple of very nice afternoon sessions.

The browns were beautifully marked and had no qualms smashing all of the models that were sprayed up just before hand. The ultra deep baby Merrit was the standout lure for the trip - I think purely because it flatlines at 6+ metres which is where a lot of the early afternoon brownies were skulking around on snags. The shallower divers picked up some very nice fish on dusk over the clay yabby beds too.

A few nice ones on the baby Merrit....









This solid fish which we released scoffed the new baby Jinjulu over the yabby beds right on dusk.



Cheers,

Danny.

oops !! my bad .... i missed a "done " - old age probably !!! lol lol 

Those lures only seem to attract those feral introduced fish think you better stick with the others