Soft Plackie Trout Bash Karri Valley
Submitted by Hook_er on Tue, 2017-01-03 16:36
Finally caught some decent trout -- caught four in total the biggest was released as it was 57cm.
Seem to be a pretty hard fish to catch -- easily spooked but I worked my way around having a few flicks in each spot and working some snags.
Has anyone got any tips on how to catch them without a fly.
Cheers.
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Oldbull
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Date Joined: 21/09/15
good effort
I would be pretty happy with that catch. Nice fish. If you don't want to fly fish then put a small hard body lure on and troll the lake while paddling. Just stuff the rod and reel between knees with rod under your armpit instead of 90 degrees to canoe - makes paddling easier. Also nothing wrong with just a slow drift or paddle around with a weighted fly.
Shimka
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Date Joined: 06/02/14
First up, nice work. Yeah go
First up, nice work. Yeah go out to Big Brook, Warren River or Lefroy brook & use hardbodies, bladed spinners or soft plastics. If you insist on fishing at Karri Valley then use corn kernels as bait suspended under a stick as a float. On a side note I took my family to Karri Valley for a week in October 2016 & will never go back. I refused to fish on principle alone: I'm already a paying guest & then they want to charge extra me on top of that to fish for thier mushy stocked trout??? I don't bloody well think so. We also ate in the restaurant one night & honestly I wouldn't feed it to my worst enemies dog. Nasty food, whole family crook the next day. Dead set shit hole.
Hook_er
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downhill
Yeah it's gone to shit as far as facilities and restaurant... pretty overpriced-- but that lake and surrounding forest are priceless.
crasny1
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What
Pay to fish now??
I have been going there for years and the pay to fish is new.
If fishing Lake Beedalup Im with Shimka. Corn kernels on a hook, either float but just on a light or unweighted hook is even better.
In the wild rivers around there then into artificials, but hard to get pass the Redfin
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Shimka
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Date Joined: 06/02/14
Yeah Cransy, pay to fish.
Yeah Cransy, pay to fish. From memory it was $10 for a 24hr "Activities Pass". Fair enough for day trippers but poor form when you're already paying to stay there. I don't find too many reddies in Lefroy but yeah the rest of the waters around there are chockas with em. Lucky they are often really good size & taste top notch battered & served with fried rice with sweet & sour.
Shimka
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I'll PM you in a few minutes
I'll PM you in a few minutes Hook_er. Just some other spots down there you might like to try. They are spots that have produced trout for me several years in a row on our yearly Marron season run so hopefully they will help you out a bit.