Jindabyne Trout

Some great looking fish mate 👍 the brook trout sure is a beauty..

Blake.

Lovely photos Danny. The brookies are a great looking fish. Yet to get one myself.
Darren

Danny What an outstanding trip. Thanks for the info and great photos Those brook trout were very well marked and the largest I have seen.

As you say Danny that brook trout is a stunning fish..you certainly have that lake worked out. TThe big one looks like it ran into a bus. Never caught a trout like many here..will have to get down there one day.

Cheers Brad

some great fish there Danny,that brooky is beautiful

Hi guys,

Yes certainly some stunning fish. Can't wait to get back there again.

John most were caught on my lures, which is always nice. We had some early starts and fished after dark. Trolling micro lures with stealth in the shallower margins was deadly, and by far the most successful.

Cheees,

Danny.

Thanks Danny

Well done Danny, congrats !!
Cheers Steve R

Thanks guys.

Pete I've noticed a bit of breeze is the main ingredient for serious success. I also just go when I have the chance. Planning trips around weather and lunar cycles is a single man's luxury. I could just be lucky or it could be a credit to the lake, but we always seem to find fish there so if I have a window to hitch the boat up and drive the two hours then I'll always go.

Paul I don't know about jealousy. Maybe they're just tired of seeing the same annoying thing swim past their face as I've been going there a bit lately.

Cheers,

Danny.

that wind factor is a great tip thanks guys

Had a couple of sessions in the mountains over the weekend. Fished Eucumbene Friday (see other thread for brief report), and then Jindy on Saturday and in the morning on Sunday.

Trolled hard bodies in close early for some nice rainbows on Saturday morning. Released a couple of small browns too. Fished progressively deeper as it got brighter and the challenges of a glass-off kicked in.

Definitely fewer fish around than Eucumbene, but what we caught were in pretty good nick. Did sound some nice marks in patches, but all lying doggo. Kept six for the smoker, released about that many also I think.

Sunday morning was a blanket of fog, keeping dawn at bay for ages. Did probably 40 mins slow in close with hard bodies and caught a tiny brown only. Changed over to winged lures, upped the speed, and got three nice browns in close to thick cover in 20 mins. Kept five for the morning.

Thinking back over where and how we found our better fish in Jindy, they were all within arms length of submerged brush or rock piles. Without unpacking one of Danny's Jindy theories here, it does seem likely to me that decent fish were hunting specifically in those places in the absence of any weedbeds. If I was a Jindabyne goldfish, I'd be living in heavy cover too.

Sounds like you had a good trip John. There are some very good conditioned fish in Jindy at the moment. The flat conditions can certainly make life hard though. Regarding your results, I believe Jindy trout see certain structures in the lake as solid gold real estate. They are homes and places of refuge for crusaceans and smaller fish respectively. And this structure is easily accessible with trolling. Eucumbene is a completely different place. There's more structure overall in my opinion (mainly vertical dead trees) but you can just about forget trying to troll through them. It could just be me, but I feel these little patches in Jindy are heavily defended by trout showing territoriality and waiting for a feed to swim past. Eucumbene I'm sure has the same situation in some places, but I'm yet to fish it enough to know.

Cheers,

Danny.

Hi John,

Yes I'd say areas around the township are especially sought after. This sounder photo is taken from my kayak, only a few metres off one of the small rock walls near Horizons. They were certainly stacked up against it. There was also a weed bed adjacent to it.

The yabby beds haven't been as productive for us this year. I'm unsure if it's due to the drop in dam level and hence a decrease in a lot of the territory I usually fish, or if it's the wind direction. We have done so well when the wind is funnelling down from the northern end of the lake. The last few trips have seen the wind coming from the south or south-east. The beds just don't seem to fish as well with this wind direction. North or North-West, as far as I can tell, is the more successful wind direction.



Cheers,

Danny.

Great photo's Danny, Like the brook trout and the colours are fantastic. 

Thanks Dave.

Hope she has fun and brings back some info for all of us.

Cheers,

Danny.

Just spent a couple of days up at Jindabyne with mates. Fishing was tougher this trip. Clear bright days with no wind had them shut down until around dusk. We still caught some quality fish (I managed all four species - browns, rainbows, brooks and salmon over the weekend) however not as many as usual. Found fish stacked up deep on the sounder each day however they weren't interested. Most were taken tickling small Echo lures in the shallows in low light. Fish of the trip was a fat 46cm brooky.

Cheers,

Danny.

Thanks John.

Yes biggest I've seen caught from our boat. They are often such a deep bodied fish that once they get to that size they really do look enormous.

Cheers,

Danny.