An interesting morning

Well that was definitely an interesting session, arrived at the lake around 11am and took my time getting organised watching a couple of young kids on an inflatable dinghy drifting around and fishing. Once I got out there they wanted a race but even against a fat kayak like the mini they didn't stand a chance. There was lots of clutter on the surface with feathers, leaves and small insects buzzing around but no sign of any fish rising. I decided to try a few laps trolling before I worked a few of my more popular snags around the lake and tied on a Damiki mu 45 and a new dc 50 I'd picked up earlier in the week. I've got a real soft spot for any chubby style lure after getting a fat rap many years ago as a young kid and having great success over the years with it. It was always the lure I was willing to go in after and I still have it today. The Dc has a nice erratic rolling action and certainly looks the goods, keen to give it's bigger cousin the 200 a go on some natives soon. After the first lap I had one small redfin on the mu and nothing for the dc 50. Another lap saw the mu account for 2 more slightly better redfin and still nothing to the dc so it was time for a change. It was time to bring out the everfaithful Rapala floating in a nice fluro yellow/orange colour.( One thing I finally realised after fishing Jubilee for probably 6 months was I had more success with yellow/orange lures and particularly ones that had contrasting black in them. A yellow/black celta accounted for any number of kilo + trout over the years before succumbing to a nasty snag. Driving in one day it finally clicked that there's a large bee farm just next to the lake and always bees around and on the water - so yeah the colour makes sense or at least the pattern.) 1 more lap and the Rapala had 1 redfin to it's score and the mu another 2, I still hadn't seen any signs of cruising trout and decided it was time to work some deeper snags and the edges. Two casts saw another small redfin alongside the yak and big black clouds and thunder rolling in. Deciding being in the middle of a lake, lightning and graphite rods was probably not a great option I hightailed it for the shore and some shelter as the skies opened up. Two crazy tourists decided this was a good time to go for a swim while I amused myself hiding under a tree hoping it was a short shower. 20 minutes later and it was still coming down hard and I was now wetter out than in the water so I dragged the kayak back to the car loaded up and headed for home. Judging by the hailstones piled up and half flooded roads on the way back I got out of it lightly. Oh well there's always tomorrow.