Started off promising, I'd been trolling no more than 50 m and I snagged a yearling heading out from the ramp. Played it in and keep chugging along - lo and behold my second lure got hit. Same things again. 2 yearlings and I'm barely 100m from the ramp, naturally I was pretty confident I'd get a couple of keepers.

But thats where the good luck ends. I trolled around for 2 or so hours and managed to lose 4 fish (rainbows around the 40 - 45cm mark) within 5m of the boat. And to add insult to injury the only other boat on the water was trolling the same bank as I was, probably about 500m behind me. I got a couple of hits on my lure but no hook-up and by the time their boat was in around the same area they got hit - bang, reeled in a solid brown that would have gone 50cm+, big hook jaw and all. Absolutely spewing that my lure didn't stay stuck.

Nothing worth photographing, and it gets bloody cold at night there still for anyone heading down for a fish - rug up!