Having had the opportunity to fish Lake Frodgem on a few occassions I was keen to attack it seriously for a couple of days. The first serious trip was arranged with Garry Castles and Wes Alfredson was to accompany me. The itinerary was to attack Frodgem over the cup long week end and hopefully see a few of the larger fish as they targetted the mudeyes. As always the mudeye thing was all hope but still a hit/miss affair.

Anyway the week end provided exceptional fishing with 32 fish landed with 4 over 10 pounds and the latest releases being around 6 pounds. The daytimes provided some damsel action and come dark we had some mudeye action. After a week end like this I was keen to let other fly fishers experience the quality fishing this water could produce.

Well a few people got to experience this water and most enjoyed it although the giant fish that this water had produced previously were never landed and the fickle nature of trout waters meant that mostly the exceptional mudeye hatches were missed by the clients and made me feel a bit guilty when I would saunter up between client groups for a quick look and the mudeyes would start moving and make it impossible to not have a cast. One memorable evening I landed 3 rainbows within 20 minutes of 4, 6 and 8 lb without moving 5 metres. Then I was determined not to cast to any more feeding fish as clients were arriving the next day, to eventually just give in to the feeding activity around me and nail several browns in the 6 - 9lb bracket.

Sebastian Leith's first experience on Frodgem was 3 browns of 9 1/4, 5 1/2 and 8 1/2 lbs in as many casts.

Thanks to Garry Castles for his efforts in maintaining this fishery and the fishing fun that was had.

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