golden ponds
Submitted by jono.s on Sun, 2009-11-08 16:41
hey guys anyone been to golden ponds lately i went there today and couldnt even raise a bite :( i tried everything lures baits ,plastics . are there even any fish there anymore? , i remember going there about 6 or 7 years ago and the ponds were packed with bream and perch . anyone know wich ponds are good ?
flangies
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We went not too long ago, a
We went not too long ago, a few weeks actually, the only trout we got (all around a kilo) were out of the very first pond behind the shop and all on bits of unweighted corn.
Tried lures ALL day, got crap all.
westaus_ryan
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Nothin for me
I went about a year ago and didn't even get a hit. Tried prawns and hard-bodies.
I know the fish get fed with pellets, and one old boy was telling me it's the best bait.
I think the key is to work out when they feed the fish. I'm guessing early morning, before they open...so if the fish have already had a good feed, you're much less likely to catch. I'm not sure how many times a day they would get fed..
kaney68
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Went during the school hols..
Took the kids during the last school holidays..
Throwing lures around and got stuff all..
A group of young kids had about 8 trout all picked up on corn....as Flangies also said..
That was in the round pond opposiite the shop.
adamsmith84
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Bait is the answer
I went there when i was 10 and i was using corn and bread pieces and caught only silver peach but went there 1 year ago and tried fly and lures and caught nothing.
wrassinator
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the rainbow yearlings in the
the rainbow yearlings in the front round pond hit lures. have cleaned up on em on small spinners and tassie devils in winter/early spring.
the back pond holds larger rainbows to 2-3kg, but these suckers do not touch anything but pellets and corn...as the others have said.
have not tried for perch or barra or blacks, but apparantly they are in there...
Dasho
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Went a month or 2 ago and
Went a month or 2 ago and got 8 trout around the 800g mark on pellets from the pond behind the shop.
In summer, after a week of 35+degree days, the barra fire up. I catch them on shallow divers and little poppers.
I have also caught a 3-4kg size carp, and a mate has caught a 55cm perch.
jono.s
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how do you bait those
how do you bait those pellets ? i tried but they kept on breaking when i put them on the hook i also tried soaking them but it still didnt work.
mako magic
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stimulate bait works in a
stimulate bait works in a similar way, mix it together and it forms like a dough type paste, mould it on the hook and should be what you need down there
skrewloose
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went there about a month ago
went there about a month ago and got one little trout and a 40 cm blacky
lox ambassador
mt-ed
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small elastic band!
small elastic band!
honsu chin
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just get a hook to suit the
just get a hook to suit the pellet. I just wedge the pellet onto the gape of the hook. I use stainless sell hooks and I think it was just 6 or 8....
purplemonkeydis...
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I go to golden ponds when i visit my mum here
And I soak the pellets as soon as you get them from the shop for about an hour while you fish with lures, they soften right up, but as honsu said, wedge them in the gape of the hook. i used the 2-inch orange snapback "bream candy" softies on a 1/16th jig head and caught a fair few big trout in the pond behind the kiosk in the winter. its barra time now though, went on wednesday and cleaned up on small minnows and pellets roughly 40cms under floats in the pond behind the kiosk. and that was my 2... nay 3 cents worth for now.. Cheers, George
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