General Photos
Connor O'Regan (L) with brothers and a good rainbow trout from Kennington Res	Tony Jacobs with a good brownie from Lauriston Res
Alan Chisholm teaching Connor O'Regan the finer points of tying flys	Tony Jacobs (L) presents Alan Chisholm with the annual Club Champions Trophy 2008
Khancoban November 2007
Arrived Saturday afternoon. After unloading vehicles it was off to the back of the Pondage. The water level was high, as it has been for almost 12 months. Overcast and windy but no sign of fish. Sunday morning fished the Swampy below the wall. The water level was the lowest I have seen it in seven years. Missed my only hit on the stimultaor. The weather was overcast with intermittent showers and blowing a minor gale. Sunday afternoon/evening fished the back of the Pondage and the weather was the same as the morning with some more heavy showers. I managed to land two fish on the bead head woolly bugger I had tied early in the morning (I am an early riser and didn’t want to disturb the others). The biggest was 3.25lb and the other just under 2lb. The 2lb fish I teased up to the surface at the end of the retrieve, but it wouldn’t touch the fly and when it finally saw the boat it bolted to my right. I immediately shot a cast in the general direction it went and on the first strip the fly was hit. Monday morning again fished the rear of the Pondage for no return. Monday evening the weather was much the same as the morning being overcast. I managed to tease up a fish to the surface and after hanging the fly for what seemed an eternity (in reality about 3-5 sec), it casually swallowed the fly. I was lucky to have another angler with me in the boat as this fish proved to be very stubborn and my mate had to pull in the sea anchor as the fish circumnavigate the boat three times over the next five minutes. I applied as much pressure as I thought a 4lb tippet could take. For those who have experienced the antics of brown trout before, this one was no different in that it put its head down and tried to stay on the bottom (typical of the Penstock and Little Pine browns). It was not until I got him up to the surface that he put on the tail dance across the water a few times before he tired and we were able to get him in the net. The lie detector put it at just over the old 4lb mark. Tuesday morning and evening I fished both the back of the Pondage and from the boat ramp down to the back of the caravan park. The weather was fine with light cloud and the breeze variable from nothing up to strong. I only managed to tease up one fish and had a solid hit which failed to stick. We also managed to pull in a lot of small reddies over the period. Both the larger fish were chock full of snails and stick caddies and the 4lb fish also had a small yabbie in its stomach contents. All in all the fishing was hard for a small return from the three anglers. We would have seen no more than a dozen rises over the period. The general consensus is that there is too much easy food in the weed beds. Every evening we witnessed good caddis hatches, but there were no fish rising to them. Only heard of three other fish being landed over the same period, so I shouldn’t feel bad about my return. The good part is that we will get to do it all again next Melbourne Cup weekend.
The 4lb brownie	The 3lb and 2lb brownie
Central Plateau March 2006
Left to right - Les Perkins, Greg Shelton, Stormy Tempest, Jeff Willey	Spoils of a hard day at the office
Greg Shelton with a solid 3lb fish from Little Pine Lagoon in the snow	Yes I said snow!