redfin going off in the harvey dam!!!

hey guys just lettin people know that redfin are out and about in size and numbers at harvey dam i went there on sunday no sucess but had a fair few strikes and follows of monster redfin and ideas of what lures to use???

most of the action happened using a medium sized hard boddied lure in the perch pattern i think it might be because the redfin have just bread and are predatorising the young redfin.

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Great

Tue, 2009-11-10 17:29

I will have to try harvey again soon!

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yea

Tue, 2009-11-10 17:34

go of of the main wall they go off around 5-6 pm and they seemed to be patrolling along the shaddow line as it uncreassed when the sun strated going down was so close to hooking a big one but he saw me at the last second good luck

 

i might be going this weekend but i doubt it coz were camping at the welly dam and theres no piont in travelling to harvey if your there

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Thanks

Tue, 2009-11-10 19:19

Thanks for the info

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good perch those, what size

Tue, 2009-11-10 18:56

good perch those, what size do they run to?

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not a big as they seem...

Tue, 2009-11-10 19:52

they are not bad but they arent great they were all around 25cms caught in the bailingup brook march this year but it seems so much longer!!!

all taken on lures

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I caught heaps of red fin

Tue, 2009-11-10 21:44

I caught heaps of red fin down there last week, quite small though. They were smashing the insects on the surface. Red fin dont care what lure you use, should catch them on anything. However spinners were slightly more productive. Managed 2 trout as well. 

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yea redfin dont normally do

Tue, 2009-11-10 22:07

yea redfin dont normally do that its normally the trout smashing the insects....

were you fishing from the wall thats were i went and saw the same thing

any insects on the edge of the shadow that the wall was creating seemed to be getting the chomp!!!

  what do you call small???

did you measurre weight length or even a guess will do thanks

sorry SMALL for every one is different haha sorry mate

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small

Wed, 2009-11-11 19:34

The majority of red fin i caught were around 15cm, hardly even notice them on the line, using 6lb. Didnt measure them, just threw them on the bank.

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I have always wanted to try

Wed, 2009-11-11 07:28

I have always wanted to try red fin fishing.

Keep up the posts mate, so I can learn where and how you are catching these fish.

Good to read about fresh water fishing for a change.

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yea

Wed, 2009-11-11 07:37

they are as lot of fun and put up a fairly good fight and great eating

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