Well Good Friday saw the cars loaded up after a late night with the parents catching up for birthdays and the first Easter we aren't home for. We headed of early - about 12 before we were finally on the road with all those last minute "oh did you get?'s" and headed up to Halls Gap. I hadn't stayed at the camp ground before, tagging along with some friends and their family for this trip and after getting to Halls Gap decided I'd better actually find out where Takura was. The camp grounds are located out the back end of Halls Gap just next to Lake Bellfield, the camp is relatively small with about 150 sites and cabins and has a decent camp kitchen and all the standard amenities, was very impressed with the size of the camp site with enough room for our large tent as well as the boys small tent and our two cars. Always nice to be able to camp and not feel like you're on top of your neighbours all day long. The campsite also had a big open paddock that kept the kids amused when not on the water and a number of walks and climbs straight out the back of the site. Really happy with the camp grounds and would recommend it to anyone headed that way.
Once we were setup we headed out for a wander around and I took Jasper for a drive to look at the lake, while the campsite is right next to the lake it's below the dam wall and an easy enough walk but not a kayak friendly one so it meant loading the car and driving up. I've never really fished Bellfield seriously before and had initially planned to spend most of the week at Fyans chasing trout amongst the weedbeds but I figured it was worth checking out and getting Jasper some time on the water, he has runs of loving fishing and not being bothered so the plan was to get him out on the kayak early and then we could sort the rest of the week out.
With the lake sitting at about 30% it still has plenty of water but it's a long way from the road (as far as I knew at this point) so lugging the kayak up and down the dam wall made the mini x the obvious choice. While Jasper went for a paddle I walked the shoreline casting a few celtas after some redfin for tea. It wasn't long before I found a school and soon had a few small redfin and one decent one that was marked for tea in. At this point Jasper came in from his paddle looking rather wet but otherwise happy with himself and we walked the shore together for awhile with Jasper picking up two more redfin before we decided to pack up and head back to camp to see if the cousins had arrived. On the way back I got chatting to a local that had been fishing for the afternoon and whose bag consisted of three redfin to a kilo and one nice trout of about 50cm's. Ideas for an assault on Bellfield were fast forming in my head as I got back to camp...
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