Trout Action, Was it hot or not?

Gday all, just a quick post about mine and sid’s  fishing session.
Rose early to get out to the water as early as possible, I was greeted with an absolute pearl-er of a day. Sunny, very few clouds and a warmish temperature, met up with sid and off we went. Not long later we pulled up in the car and got the gear out and ready, within 5 minutes of getting there we were on our way along the river. Another 5 minutes later and I was already having follows and landed a beauty of a small brown, was rather small but fought pretty good for his size.

Healthy Little Brown

Not much further down the track before Sid had some luck, landing a beauty of a brown that fought well using the current, was quite funny watching him run downstream with the fish 😛 Never the less he landed it with my help and I estimated it to be around 2-2.5lb. Was caught on a gillies spinner.

Sid with a nice 2-2.5lb Brown Trout

Another cast went to the same spot that he caught the first one from, and he was on again! As I had walked up the river before his first fish and came back to help him, I had done the same, walked off seen he got a fish on and had to walk all the way back again. The fight was a lot quicker for this one, still used the current well. Landed a small Brown that would have been pushing the one pound mark. A happy snap and the fish was off again.

Sid with a little Brown

Moving on Up River saw a couple of follows again but for no avail. Sid then placed a long cast along a deep pool of water which was smashed by a hungary, rather large Brown, I hard fight and a bit of excitement, the fish was coming ashore, before the hooks pulled and the fish fell back to the water, I dived like in first slip and caught it by the tail and lifted it out of the water, a lucky save! Anyways the fish would have been about 3lb and in superb condition. Easily the best fish of the day.

Sid with a cracker of a Brown Trout, 3lb

Walking on a few kilometers downstream, Sid barely had any action after this, but the action I was having just wasn’t going to plan! I would have had easily 20-30 followers after this point, would have had easily 15 strikes, would have easily have hooked another 10 fish and had them on for a good while, but absolutely none landed :(. I was having a shocker of a day, my only two fish came from the first 5 and last 5 minutes of the fishing time, in around 7 hours fishing!.
An interesting moment came when fishing one spot, I cast and the lure wrapped itself around a branch unable to come off, I let Sid cast a few times before disturbing the spot to get the lure. I had polarized sunnies on where Sid didn’t. I watched his lure off the first cast being followed by a large trout before it swam off, the same with the second, watched a smaller trout follow it in before swimming off. The third and fourth casts where the same, fish of variable sizes following it in before swimming off at our feet. Was quite interesting to watch but disappointing we didn’t get a fish from it.
Plenty of fish about but just nothing staying stuck. A front came through and the fish disappeared all together at one point, before an hour later it warmed up again and the fish came back, interesting to see the fish reaction to the sudden weather changes!

Cheers,
Tom