Club Trips | Grey Ghosts

December 2014 - Fishing Club Trip to the Retreat Hut in the Avoca Valley.

Colin and Brian left early Friday with Colin getting a fish at Lake Evelyn and Brian at Lake Georgina.
Everyone met up at the homestead at 5:00pm and once through the first gate found a never ending supply of them to open and close in the 10km up the track to the retreat hut.
Alex and Lou arrived later with Lou not excited about getting to open and close all the gates by himself.
A quiet night chewing the fat and then all up Saturday morning for a feed of bacon sausages eggs and hash browns then most went up to lake Lillian to have a fish with Mike and Cambell going down the River, plenty of fish spotted in the lake but no luck so everyone met back at camp for lunch.
Alex Lou and Robert went for a hike up the Avoca River after lunch and eventually found a couple of pools some how having Alex at the river and us other two looking down over a bluff into the same hole spotting a huge fish unseen by Alex who was all excited by another he had spotted. By the time we got down to the pool Alex was changing flies so Lou had a go at that one and I went to have a go at another one Alex has spotted. With no luck Lou Lou went to change flies so I let my rapala swing around past the fish he was having a go at and bang It's all on and feels a good weight, turning it takes off downstream through a rapid and it is soon on the bank. A nice rainbow with a gutted weight of 3.5lb with 3 mice in it - should have weighed it before gutting as I'm sure it would have hit 4lb) While I was mucking around Alex pulls in another nice looking rainbow with 4 mice in it weighing 2.5lb gutted. Lou finds another fish at the bottom of a ripple and throws everything at it has this guy got patience or what!! Nymphs taken and spat out twice same again with a mouse even tried a rapala on the spin rod which was taken on the first cast but lost so gave up and left it for another day to make a story for someone else.
A great feed of steak, onions, 5kg bag of beautiful spuds and coleslaw saw a bunch of content fisherman with most away sleeping not long after dark. Not wanting to climb up to a top bunk again I decided to sleep on a unclaimed sofa but it didn't take too long before I decided the climb up wasn't so bad after a mouse ran up my arm. The next morning Alex Wood also made comment of the same issues.
Another big feed of sausages, hash browns, bacon and eggs saw everyone set for the day. All cleaned up we set off around 9:00am in the direction of home and all those gates to open and close again.
A stop at lake Selfe got two hook ups for me with a couple of very enthusiastic rainbow trout with only one landed, on down the road everyone met up at Lake Georgina which saw Colin Arnst spotting then showing us how it's done by landing and dispatching a nice brown.
Everyone said their good byes among a lot of positive comments about an enjoyable trip with the weather also playing it's part.
Thank you to my driver Campbell, who I was really impressed with and hope I'm still getting out there in another 37 years when I'm his age.