Lake Hume Trolling For Trout With Homemade Downriggers 13/10/2023

Lake Hume is situated in North East Victoria Australia near the cities of Albury/Wodonga, The Murray River and the Mitta river both flow into lake Hume.In this video i fish the lake for trout using home made downriggers, this season has been qiute productive for trout, Brown Trout make up a vast majority of the catch as far as trout are concerned, the lake also supports a very healthy population of Yellowbelly and a growing population of Murray Cod, the lake has a very large population of Redfin Perch which in turn fuels the monster trout and yellowbelly that lurk in its depths and if you catch a Murray Cod they are probably the fattest cod you will see anywhere so they would be eating there fair share of redfin as well i would imagine.

[@rednutflyfishing8795]

Should do a how to downrigger build.

[@robbiefishing]

Awesome work homie, lovely fish. It looks complicated. LOL 😂😂

[@akhector]

Thanks Homie yes it is certainly a more active method of fishing getting everything under control!

[@mickhurley4660]

Love the fishing videos mate.

[@akhector]

Thanks Mick glad you like them i know i'm a bit different but that's who i am! always thinking of ways to improve the videos looking at getting a second gopro soon so that will give me more options.

[@peterthompson230]

We used a cod net for Hume browns back in 2013, big monsters - keep trying you'll eventually get 1, biggest fish were all without the dodger, accept 1x 8lb brown using cowbell, in 2018. Trouti Thompson

[@akhector]

Thanks Peter the 10lb trout has become a goal for sure.I have had the thought maybe the dodger might be too unnatural for the bigger fish might have to try the tassie on it's own, they have been hitting the fixed slider rig more than the botom lure which I have been putting about 5 feet above the bomb.Love those fixed sliders! took a while to perfect that after watching what they are using in the Great Lakes

[@peterthompson230]

@@akhector half of the 28 browns we caught over 3 seasons, dodg

[@peterthompson230]

Dodgers were in the water, half of the trout, no dodgers. Big fish on straight tassie or cd7 x rap

[@akhector]

@peterthompson230 thanks for that insight Peter I will have to try one downrigger with dodger and one without and compare the result, tried running the double clutch off the downrigger and didn't do any good, caught a couple on Pegrons but the tassies seem as good as anything also tried a 4" soft plastic redfin imitation but nothing on that either you would think they would climb all over that considering a lot of the trout that I kept had redfin in their stomach.

[@peterthompson230]

Tassie's seem to be the most consistant, although check John Rupics Hume video, 8 browns to 8lb, in 1 day, more about understanding the weir than lure, bit nat and I at Euc

[@Tao_J85]

Nice video mate, I ended up with 6 for the day 3lb was the biggest, see ya out there next time bud

[@akhector]

Awesome stuff Toa well done! Your Patience certainly paid off you must of tried a different area I couldn't see you for a long time.3lb is a nice fish the one I got and realeased turned out to be 3.66lb I weighed it in the net the subtracted the weight of the net.I still have yet to get the monster I am after, I know they are in there, that will keep me going back out.

[@kevincameron124]

Well done mate - great fish and bloody good filming. Guess what you will be doing next week!!!

[@akhector]

Thanks Kevin I had to relearn how to do the editing and uploading to you tube.Yes I will have to film it next week, I looked into that recording 30 seconds before you press the capture button on the gopro it's called hindsight it is only on the newer ones not mine, it is still recording and using battery power to the same level the difference is it only keeps the last 30 seconds recorded on the sd card which would be very useful in a fishing situation a lot less files to sift through.