Autumn​

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The lake level is in its usual pre winter decline, currently at 66%, making good fishing and access around most of the lake edge.

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Autumn fishing in the Thredbo and Snowy rivers and the inlets around the lake can be a lot of fun. March & April should see warm days over 20˚C with cool nights leading into winter. Lake surface temperature is coldest at sunrise. There are a lot of plate-sized brown and rainbow trout being caught in the Thredbo River and in the lake. Downrigging from a boat or spinning and bait fishing around the lake edges at sunrise, until mid morning and late in the evening are producing results. Best baits are live worms and Powerbait with a light float rig set shallow to avoid snags around weedy bays, or drifting unweighted worms off deeper lake edges. Set your rod with the bail arm open or some slack line and let the fish take the bait well before trying to set the hook.

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You can fish the rivers and streams all day but late evenings are the best. Nymph runs should be on in the rivers so a weighted nymph under an indicator fly is the go. Fish the faster runs early and late in the day and the deeper pools in the middle of the day. Browns and blacks are doing well for nymphs in regular patterns and flashback, small green, grey and black coloured dry flies are doing well on the surface. Stocking up on egg patterns should be a priority coming into the spawning season, before the rivers close on June long weekend.

Surface trolling in the lake at sunrise and sunset can be good with Tassie Devils, gold flash with bold patterns, pink and blue, as well as yellow winged tassies are getting results. Downriggers, snap weights and leadlines can be fished all day, we have full lake map of both Lake Jindabyne & Eucumbene with marked trolling runs available in store.

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Our local casting flies are doing well in the evening, twitching them along near inlets around the lake have seen some good catches.

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We have everything you will need in the shop for sale and hire and the advice is free, at the Snowline Centre, just past the Thredbo turnoff.

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Kind Regards,

Brian & Stuart