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Tips for Catching Crappies: Because crappies are diverse feeders, fisherman find that many different fishing methods can be used to catch them, from casting with light jigs to trolling with minnows. The best time to catch crappies is during their normal feeding times, near dawn or dusk. Night fishing using lights to draw in crappies is another favourite strategy. Buy your fishing gear here: https://goo.gl/QpEC1h

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Mayflies warn us of pollution Mayflies have been around for more than 300 million years - long before dinosaurs existed! Not only are Mayflies one of the trout's most important sources of food, but they warn us of pollution, because they need clean water to survive.

Catch your dinner! Rainbow trout are gorgeous fish, with colouring patterns that vary widely depending on habitat, age, and spawning condition. A member of the salmon family, they can grow quite large, preferring cool, clear rivers, streams and lakes, surviving on insects, crustaceans and small fish. Rainbow trout seek out the eggs of salmon as a food, so they are attracted to Spawning salmon.   Whole baked trout makes a delicious dinner. Simply layer onions and lemon slices onto the outside of the fish and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add approximately 2 tablespoons of white wine to the stomach cavity and a healthy splash on the outside of the fish, and seal with foil. Bake in a moderately hot oven or barbecue for approximately 30-35 mins for a 2kg fish.

Its trout in suburbia at Casey Fields. Casey Fields is located less than 5 minutes from the heart of Cranbourne, Victoria and a popular fishing spot for both locals and visitors. The best time to fish at Casey Fields is usually one week prior to the school holiday period, when the lake gets stocked with a good population of healthy plump rainbow trout. Dawn and dusk are ideal times to target trout. Hot tip:  Using barley pellets will be the difference between one or five fish!  Trout released into the waterways are from a farm and used to getting fed on a daily basis. So the sound of pellets hitting the water will get the trout fired up.

With the one exception of Victoria’s Lake Eildon, which is kept open year-round with farmed stocks of Murray Cod, Victoria places a total ban on cod fishing during their breeding season from the 1st of September to the 30th of November each year.   99.6 per cent of Lake Eildon’s Murray Cod is farmed stock, topped up annually, to support the year-round open season for Australia’s largest fresh water fish.     Renown for its aggressive and highly territorial behaviour, the Murray Cod eats almost anything that gets in its way. Even eating adult ducks, cormorants, freshwater turtles, water dragons, snakes, mice and frogs, and earning them a reputation as ‘pigs of the waterways’. One of the most common stories comes from Ngarrindjeri lands of the lower Murray Darling system, close to the mouth of the Murray in South Australia. It concerns Ponde or Pondi, a giant ancestral cod. The great hunter, Ngurunderi, chased Ponde who formed the bends and billabongs of the Murray with his thrashing tail trying to escape Ngurunderi. Ngurunderi finally speared Ponde at Lake Alexandrina, where Ponde was cut up with his carcass and excess flesh thrown back into the water. These pieces then became other Murray River fish species. Ngurunderi commanded of the pieces to remain as the Murray cod. Thus we will never again see a giant Cod the size of Ponde that is able to carve out an entire river.  

This Sunday 26 November 2017 Lake Eppalock is running their Redfin competition. Check out their facebook page http://goo.gl/ugXjWx for more details. An easy 30 or 40-minute drive from the historical mining town of Bendigo in central Victoria, Australia, Lake Eppalock is home to Golden Perch, Redfin, Trout, Murray Cod and the introduced Carp. With excellent Redfin fishing between December and May, the popular fishing spots of the Derrinal and Kimbolton pools are to the North for those wishing to explore a little.