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  1. On 14/01/2024 at 9:29 PM, dmck said:

    Adrian, I have confidence that 13,000 will pass and 14,000 will be achieved.

     

    You ARE a 'trout whisperer'....

     

    apart from the fishing, your photos are superlative..

    Now a 'big islang Q'.... do you have E-Carp polluting your rivers?

    Hi Mick, I'm slowing down a little of late due to the lower back getting worse, I'm sure I'll try to put in as many trout season as possible to each those numbers too. I doubt there would be all that many trout fisher's that would have caught 98% of their trout on the Mepps inline blade spinners either, nowadays most of them are using soft plastics and hard body lures. I find it very challenging when fishing for trout with a inline blade spinner. I do carry a mixed supply of small (30-60 mm) hard body lures with me & I have used them from time to time and done reasonably well on them. As for the E-Carp, we did have a problem here in Tasmania in Lakes Crescent & Sorrel when a couple of fisho's from Victoria smuggled a few small live carp into the state and used them for live bait fishing in Lake Crescent.  For starters, live bait fishing for trout is illegal in all waters (lakes/rivers & streams)when fishing for trout, the trout in Lake Crescent can be up to 20 lb plus that's why those guys used live bait. Once finished with their fishing they dumped the small live carp into the lake and the rest is history, they took of like wildfire and spread into Lake Sorrel as well. Thankfully they were mainly contained to those two lakes, a few did make it into a stream below Sorrel but traps were set and they were dealt with. It took the Inland Fisheries around 12 years to eradicate the carp from both lakes and now we are free of carp here in Tassie. 

    cheers Adrian

  2. On 14/01/2024 at 7:28 PM, Yorky said:

    @Meppstas Congratulations, that is a great achievement, thanks for sharing your journey, always a pleasure to watch & read

    Thank You

    Yorky

     

    Thanks Yorky sorry for the late reply, as you know I do love chasing trout in the rivers and it's always a pleasure to share my trout fishing adventures with you all..

    cheers Adrian

  3. Thanks Ryback, I felt I'd done it all when I reached my 10,000th trout back on the 3rd Nov.2019, I never thought about reaching this number until I caught my 11,000th trout on the 14th Jan.2022 then I knew I was in with a chance of doing so. At 79 years (in Feb 24) of age I'm not sure how many trout seasons I have left in me, the large rivers here are pretty tough on the body that's for sure.

    cheers Adrian..

  4. On 10/01/2024 at 7:24 AM, Kaye said:

    Thanks everyone for the response - yes it is in working order.  Lucky we didn't sell it  for $50 as we were originally going to.

    Where would be the best place to sell this?  Ebay or Facebook do you think?

    I would take it to an auctioneer for evaluation first and see if they're interested  in putting it up for auction, if not Ebay, Gumtree would be best.. not keen on using Facebook at all. 

    cheers Adrian

  5. That's a great article Des and very helpful to those who venture the tidal flats that's for sure. I for one got caught out on an incoming tide off Port Gawler many, many years ago while fishing for Flathead, had to swim across a few deep gutters, wasn't feeling all that comfortable crossing them either. 

    cheers Adrian

  6. Thanks Greg, it was tough that's for sure, it was a good hatch of Caddis Moths too, one of the best one for a season or two as well. We don't seem to get the big insect hatches like we used to years ago which is a shame..Here's a photo of a massive Dun hatch back in November 2009, never seem one like since..The air was full of then as was the water surface..

    cheers Adrian

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  7. This spin session was a tough one, conditions were pretty good, but the trout were hard to find, I still managed to get onto a few wild brown trout thanks to the Mepps March Brown Bug spinner. Thanks for watching, enjoy the musical photo slideshow at the end of the video and stay safe on/in the water..

    cheers Adrian (meppstas)

     

    A few pics from the spin session.. as always, all the trout were released..1243028310_MeanderRiver.9585(Custom).JPG.88977d29fa1d57b123a9fb400ec6ff0f.JPG1059241473_MeanderRiver.9606(Custom).JPG.b31de1eb8373439def6676d02c47c6d7.JPG320255267_MeanderRiver.9598(Custom).JPG.e5a73dd8dd8e0ed546affbac69807a10.JPG1423359172_MeanderRiver.9659(Custom).JPG.a1d8c0531daf6ad76481a5fa1131e7cb.JPG2141449718_MeanderRiver.9610(Custom).JPG.b891503ff131ac04543fdfddb6f7fed7.JPG269468793_MeanderRiver.9620(Custom).JPG.2361ca79e0e5eb9433760e32cd9d62e7.JPG1522555377_MeanderRiver.9656(Custom).JPG.9ce67b2870470853804bb7b8eed06780.JPG

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  8. On 30/10/2023 at 3:45 PM, Hunter69 said:

    Thanks Adrian. Moving to nsw in 2 weeks. Hopefully I can start catching the next size up from these S.A Browns 

    I'm sure that won't be a problem there at all, there's plenty of large trout to be had in NSW, all the best on the move too..👍

    cheers Adrian

  9. For all of the Vegemite lovers like me and have been since I was a kid, here's a photo that I took this morning of a jar of Vegemite out of the kitchen cupboard and did a bit of photo shop work on it. I can remember as a kid having Vegemite on toast for breakfast, Vegemite broth with bread in it, then when I was older and a little hungover in the mornings, a Vegemite & tomato sandwich did the trick. I still have a Vegemite broth from time to time too...

    cheers Adrian

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  10. Thanks Booma, it was good to see the trout were back in this little river, 2016 we had a record flood that wiped out 5 road bridges on the Mersey River as well as flooding the whole Merseylea area where over 300 dairy cattle were washed away. The Mersey River rose 7.5 metres in 2016.

    When things finally settled down I managed to get a few photos of the damage on the Mersey River, it wasn't good either. Thankfully we've only had one other flood since then..

    cheers Adrian

     

    2 A couple of dairy cows that made it to one bit of high ground at Merseylea. (6-6-16) (Large).JPG

    1 Mersey River, Merseylea.(15-10-22) (Large).JPG

    1 Mersey River floods in record rainfalls.. (6-6-16) (Large).JPG

    1 Megaliters of floodwater at Merseylea. (7-6-16) (Large).jpg

    2 All that's left of the Merseylea Bridge. (15-6-16) (Custom) (Large).JPG

    2 Another section of the Merseylea Bridge washed away. (17-6-16) (Large).JPG

    2 Mersey River, Merseylea. 3928 (Large).JPG

  11. 12 hours ago, gregtech said:

    The 'Trout Assassin' is still hard at it!!!

    Great pics Adrian. Still on my bucket list to get down your way.  Just got back from Exmouth WA getting into the Marlin and Sailfish so Tassie is next!!!!

    Cheers, Greg.

    Hi Greg, yes I'm still at for now mate, I'll be keeping at it for as long as the body allows me to, Looks like you've been spoiling yourself in WA, good trip by the sounds of it.. look me up if & when you get down this way... site member Soobz is touring the state at the moment too.. meeting up with him again near the end of the month..

    cheers Adrian

  12. 21 hours ago, Des said:

    Just so picturesque out there. Who needs to catch a fish. Although that would just top things off!

    Enjoy your beautiful part of the world Adrian. Hope you have a great season ahead. 

    Cheers, Des

    Thanks Des, yes mate, very lucky to have so much beautiful scenery & tranquil water to fish, catching a trout always tops off a few hours or so in a small stream or a large river Life is good down here, as for my season, I'm 40+ trout ahead for the same time last season at this stage, just hope it stays that way..

    cheers

    Adrian

  13. Thanks YD, the scenery in and around the rivers I fish are great that's for sure. As for the spinners, the fish can run hot and cold on the blade spinners, especially trout, they can be on one minute and off the next and all one can do is to continue to chop and change spinners. Eventually there's one they'll take a liking to for a while then go of it, then it's back to chopping and changing lures again. Then I've had many days during the trout season when I've never had to change the spinner at all.  Spin fishing for trout with blade spinners fishing (or any fish) is certainly challenging most times, in the end that's what it's all about isn't it.. 

    cheers Adrian 

  14. With the larger rivers still on the high side I decided to stick to the smaller streams until things settle down, as it turned out it was a good decision too with a few nice wild brown trout being caught and released. Even though this small stream was on the high side, it was still much safer to fish it than a large fast flowing river. A photo slideshow follows the video as well..

    cheers Adrian..

     

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