Kids are troutin’ about

After being coached and digging for bait …

Liffy also reports that 14year-old Jake Redpath and his uncle Paul Kovzan dropped in on their way back from Eildon Pondage on Sunday with some really hefty rainbow trout.

They’d headed up there on Friday evening and were casting lures at the crack of dawn the following day when Jake hooked their first fish on a purple Tassie Devil — a rainbow trout of possibly 4kg, the first of several they caught on Saturday.

Kevin Wild of the Maryborough Angling Club reports that Talbot Reservoir continues to attract anglers, and among them was Alan Pool who picked up a rainbow trout of 51cm on Thursday.

Fishing Lake Tullaroop near Maryborough was Steven Eales, along with his six-yearold daughter Lily, who caught a 1kg rainbow trout on Berkley Powerbait. Steven, who works at the Maryborough Lyal Eales store, reports that an angler — for whom we have no name — dropped in to display a 4kg brown trout he caught from Tullaroop on a Daiwa Double Clutch minnow.

With school holidays to begin next week, fishing is a paramount activity and Fisheries Victoria advises that rainbow trout have been stocked in the following locations: Bannockburn Lagoon 300, St Augustine’s Waterhole 700, and Lethbridge Lake 300. The VFA website also reminds anglers that a daily bag limit of five trout applies, of which only two may exceed 35cm.

Bob McPherson reports that good-sized school shark have made a welcome return along Portland’s north shore after a long absence. Fishing here on evening last week, Bryce Goldby caught two, each around the 16kg mark, and returned others.

Geoff, while trolling lures off Port Macdonnell, for barrel tuna, we were amazed to find spearfishermen on jetskis beating us to the bust-ups. Is this seemingly hazardous activity regulated?

Corey, I phoned South Aus