GIANT Fish in a TINY Pond - Melbourne Metro MADNESS !!

[@pitchkapizda8355]

This guy could catch anything anywhere love his vids bloody fishing magician

[@fishingmad]

Thanks so Much !!!!

[@icepix1982]

Awesome video

[@islasdad5775]

How good is what VFA doing! 👌

[@nicolaasvanroosendael697]

over 20 years ago my company did the aquatic plsnting around this 40 acre lake. We tried to get the powere that be to stock EPs and Bass but the then minister wanted trout. At that time we introduced native shrimp and some native forage fish. We had trouble getting the vegetation to establish due to erosion from up tp one metre waves and thousands of seagulls.

[@fishingmad]

That's amazing, well done !!. Gee Bass and EPs in there would have been really interesting. Its been fascinating to see the excitement for natives in recent years.

[@matthewcashman5390]

Your A Kind Man And A Great Angler 👍 🎣👍 You Passing That Lovely Huge Rainbow To The Little Fella Was Awesome 👌🐟👌👍👍

[@fishingmad]

Thanks 👍 Yeah its been great connecting with our local fishing community. Handing out soft plastics at Lorne and helping a few anglers on the trout was great. Thanks for the kind words

[@matthewcashman5390]

@fishingmad I've Just Become A Huge Fan Of Yours I Want To See More Of Your Videos Because I Only Just Started Using Plastics For Trout And Have No Luck Yet But I Will Be Patient 👍🎣👍 Thankyou For Your Reply Mate 👍🎣👍 TIGHT LINES MATE 💪🎣💪

[@fishingmad]

Which soft plastics are you using for trout, historically I've used things like Berkley T-Tail, Zman slim Swimz in blood oil, bait junkies in black/gold with some success. otherwise spoons are a great option

[@matthewcashman5390]

@fishingmad Awesome 👌 I've Been Using The Black And Gold T Tails And Green And Gold Minnows 👍👍 I Think I Maybe Winding Too Quickly And Not Being Patient Enough 👍🫣👍

[@matthewcashman5390]

@fishingmad I Live On The North West Coast Of Tasmania 💙🐟🎣💙

[@gamerweener5192]

haha the drums on the second fish is chefs kiss! great vid mate.

[@KaiChong]

My lil boy caught his first rainbow.. super excited

[@Digbite]

You're very good at fishing, was cool watching ya land that first big one the way it was fighting.

[@fishingmad]

Thanks 👍 so much, i'm really glad you enjoyed it !!!

[@archerhume]

Caught a big stonker there on monday just a few hours after they stocked them!

[@fishingmad]

Awesome, Well Done !!

[@officialWWM]

Holy crap, that’s a massive trout! Nice job!

[@fishingmad]

Thanks !!

[@robertbermudez4458]

Good stuff 👍

[@Bretzky99]

Great vid, cheers.

[@fishingmad]

Thanks 👍

[@michael-fb7ps]

Nice al there bloody big fish looked like a lot of fun cheers mate happy trout open on Saturday cheers

[@fishingmad]

Thanks !! Yeah im looking forward to trout opening, i will be forced to stay local this year as im helping with some local projects

[@Cambomon]

grabbed one yesterday first time ever!

[@fishingmad]

That's awesome, which lake did you catch it at ?

[@Cambomon]

@@fishingmad karkarook as well

[@TobysfishingNoutdoors]

Theses were some SICK as fish! Those trout were huge!! I’d love to catch a trout someday… very educational once again Allan! Keep up the amazing work! I really like the trout ones! Tight lines man! 🇦🇺🤙🎣🇦🇺🤙🎣🇦🇺🤙🎣🇦🇺🤙🎣🇦🇺🤙🎣

[@fishingmad]

Thanks so much !!! Hopefully your not to far from a spot that got stocked last week so you can get a big one too !!

[@TobysfishingNoutdoors]

@@fishingmad we’re up in QLD at the minute…. So I sadly won’t be getting me first ever trout anytime soon… just a lot of Barra and jack fishin!

[@fishingmad]

Nothing wrong with Barra and Jack fishing, they are on my todo list. id love to spend some time up that way chasing barra, Jacks and GTs

[@spacekingsuhaantheultimate]

still learning from these vid how to learn soft plastic/lure fishing

[@fishingmad]

I hope there helping.

[@LordSquelch-iv6yd]

I love ur vids mate

[@fishingmad]

Thanks so much, enjoy !!

[@LordSquelch-iv6yd]

@@fishingmad I will 🤙

[@itscrikey]

4:11 Bloody hell!

[@24fishing39]

How many stonkers were put in kararock lame?

[@24fishing39]

*lake

[@fishingmad]

100 were stocked last week

[@JasondenHollander-qj5hp]

I mean seriously, is VF the best Vic gov department ever? Constantly happily surprised about what they do. If only other departments could be like this.

[@fishinbite]

Great video Alan! Any tips on the distance you run lures behind the kayak?

[@fishingmad]

20 to 30 meters is plenty with shallow and mid divers, if its to short you'll notice the lure will often not swim properly and come to the surface

[@fishinbite]

@@fishingmad cheers mate!

[@cryptoravenpig4241]

Victoria fishing seems so much better than here in SA. I have a question for ya, what size rod & reel would you recommend for carp fishing?? The carp here are average size with the occasional bigger one.

[@fishingmad]

Yeah Victorian Fisheries have done amazing work here, particularly in the last 5 years with stocking programs and other initiatives. For carp fishing, I generally use a 2-5 or 3-6kg spin rod paired with a 2500 size reel and 10lb line. If they are small carp you can drop that and fish lighter.

[@cryptoravenpig4241]

@@fishingmad Hopefully here in SA they could do something similar one day.......but i doubt it though🤞 Perfect, pretty much what im usin atm. I do have a few 3000 reels aswell, im currently using a 6'8" NRX+ with a C3000 exsence runnin 10lb braid & a 6'8" Megabass valkyrie with 2500 stella also runnin 10lb braid......dont laugh, i know im only catchin carp where i live but i love nice gear aswell damn it lol. Thanks for response mate👍

[@ChrisFaustmann]

sick as bruh

[@coweatgrass137]

Hey Al, after seeing your vid I was motivated to have a crack at navan park lake (melton) to catch my fish of a lifetime this saturday. You reckon worms, yabbies, or powerbait is better bait for the trout? Also when were these fish stocked? It says on the fisheries webstie that they will be stocked on the 7th? Does that mean ill be fishing whilst watching the fisheries throw em in the lake? Maybe i should go next week until the trout have become a little more accustomed?? Cheers

[@fishingmad]

They started stocking the stonkers last Wednesday and it will finish mid next week. Navan only got 30 so they will go quickly. Im sure Navan was stocked last week. In my experience powerbait is the best option out of those choices, scrub worms and maggots also work good too.

[@Sammys-Fishing]

hey great video. i want to try and hit karkarook again but i'm wating for the school holidays or at least until this wind goes away. also do you know when the lakes get stocked? and when did you film this? keep up the great work!

[@fishingmad]

This was filmed last Friday before the strong winds and storms over the weekend. The lake was stocked last Tuesday. Fisheries will stock this lake and countless others again just before school holidays with the usual school holiday trout stocking of smaller stockies. There were 100 that went into Karkarook so hopefully some will still be there by then.

[@achebwahs1111]

Just got home from Wendouree. Picked up a couple of big browns just after dark.

[@fishingmad]

Thats awesome well done, I should be down that way next week helping with some projects

[@mapd6831]

that might be the biggest “tiny pond” i’ve ever seen 😂

[@sasquatch1159]

Great video! Used to love going down there about 10 years ago when i lived in melbourne, Never caught any stonkers, but heaps of smaller stockies from the bank on Rapala CD-3's and CD-5's. Water level looks abit down compared to how i remember it. I heard its about 16m deep out in the middle, is this true?

[@fishingmad]

Thats awesome, and yes hard to beat the old CD3 and CD5s still brilliant choices. Yeah water levels are low at the moment, even just after winter. You are right its a very deep lake, I didn't have a sounder on the lynx but if i recall taking my PA14 on there a few years back it was about 15 meters deep.

[@JasondenHollander-qj5hp]

What rig, line are you running? Ie knowing you were chasing the stocker were you running a heavier line and if so monofilament?

[@MOD12323]

have you caught any metro cod?

[@fishingmad]

Yes, caught some at Navan, and Melton Res, but the cod fishing will get better and better with massive recent stocking

[@MOD12323]

@@fishingmad cool thanks

[@Bbbbbb-l1b]

Any tips on how to stop collecting weeds after every cast? I ran a running sinker rig and tried catching trout, had no luck and only caught lots of weed. Tried using size 8 sinkers and then switched over to size 3 sinkers.

[@fishingmad]

Yeah it can be super frustrating in some systems the weed volume, places like Albert park can be really tricky for this. I tend to keep moving around until I find a spot that isn't bringing in as much weed on the retrieve. I drop the sinkers down to tiny sizes often size 0 or size 1 so the trout feel zero resistance and even fishing with a float can help in these situations. You can also use baits that float like berley trout eggs and nuggets

[@glennstevenson6242]

Use a float.

[@Bbbbbb-l1b]

@@fishingmad Managed to get a nice 3.5kg rainbow on a rapala rainbow trout lure

[@VanDiemen1969]

Get yourself a running plastic float that you can fill with water, so it gives you some weight to cast and get distance. The line passes through the float, Tie the float in between two swivels a foot apart, so the float doesnt run all the way down to bait. then about a metre of leader, run a worm, grub or mudeye on a tiny hook under the float.

[@anewrealm]

Great stuff Alan, my kids love this lake.

[@skahl000]

Love the vids. I started foshing 3 weeks ago. Yet to catch a fish 😭. Mainly been ar Caulfield racecourse lake, bur also here and there at Karkarook. Any tips? Or any chance you'd be around those lakes in the next few weeks and can show me the ropes?

[@BeauLawrence]

hey fishing mad, love ur content so much told my mum about u she wants me to fish more now ur amazing bro, what lures were u using im goin this weekend

[@happydays2190]

Is the best time early morning and dusk? And what time of year is best,? Ive persisted here on soft plastics about 5 years ago but no luck

[@fishingmad]

With stonkers you can catch them anytime of day, this was filmed between 7am and 10.30 and all catches came between 9.30 and 10.30. Trout are generally active on first light but they can be caught all day. Soft plastics work well, small paddle tails espcially.

[@owenfeng8712]

I have only caught one in few years. You got 5 in one day😅

[@Zilo917]

Hey Alan going down to Albert park lake on Sunday and wondering what power bait is the best for the lake? Also love the videos keep up the interesting content!

[@fishingmad]

Thank you, Albert Park is a great spot. Power bait trout nuggets and powerbait floating salmon eggs are my fav choices when bait fishing for them

[@paulhoughton6550]

No fishing in Victoria, my sister said.

[@Paxtondesmond]

Thoughts on the Daiwa crossfire 1-3kg combo?

[@fishingmad]

Good for the price point

[@Corn_dawgg]

Do people usually keep or let these fish go? There’s probably some unspoken rule about catch and release when you get there. Gives everyone a chance to chase these fish

[@fishingmad]

Really depends on the angler. They don't release very well but I release all the ones I catch as i'm just trying to work with the VFA and share helpful content on them. Id love to see kids and new anglers catching them but they are stocked in there for all people to catch them.

[@Corn_dawgg]

@@fishingmad yeah that’s fair enough I suppose their true purpose is for families to catch and bring home but I don’t know if they are that tasty when they become this big. Thanks for the response!

[@fishingmad]

I know many who have eaten them, ( cooked on the smoker ) and said they were good, but I've never eaten one.

[@markissboi3583]

This is way release the big ones back for breeding the 1lb = 500grm trout are best smoked therer about $38 @ supermarket glass red cheese yum,

[@youssefelmohamad5609]

Hey Allan I’ve been watching your channel since I was 14 now I’m 20 looking to buy my first kayak just wondering do you think it’s safe to go out on your own and do you think princess pier would be good now or in the snapper season thanks a lot

[@fishingmad]

Thanks for watching and following the channel for so long its really appreciated. In terms of fishing on your own from a kayak at princess pier there are some really important factors. Some kayaks are super stable ( like the Hobies ) and some kayaks very unstable, that alone makes a massive difference. Also you need to understand the wind and swell predictions, at the top end of PPB a northerly breeze under 10ks will usually be flat and sae, so understanding those things are so important. The snapper haven't fired there just yet but heaps of pinkies. I hope that helps and keep enjoying the content.

[@youssefelmohamad5609]

@@fishingmad thanks a lot do seals attack your kayak and what kayak do you recommend that’s not toooo expensive

[@fishingmad]

I've never had any issues with seals and if I see them I generally just keep my distance. Some huge ones in local waters I fish and they are not shy, so I just keep my distance where I can. Best entry level kayak is a Hobie Compass but even they are quite expensive, keep an eye for bargains on Marketplace as the really cheap kayaks are often very unstable and lack many of the needed basic features.

[@SoHarvey]

Sorry ... where is it ?

[@grimreaper6112]

Monster be a few years on that fish.

[@trxq7173]

No the fatties swarm there and eat em all up regardless of bag limits, i saw one bloke there with about 40 trout

[@Gator1699]

Yarrambat is RS. 🐊

[@shttickets7960]

what's the avg weight/length of these big trout? haven't fished that lake for 10yrs

[@LeighWoolley]

Trolling with a phone in your hand and not a rod no good best of luck 😊😊😊

[@EdwardYang-wu7yq]

Hey mate, where do you get your model of the Tcurve and the Expride do you use, and how to you use 1-3kilo rods to bait fish? Thanks mate

[@fishingmad]

That model TCurve and Expride are readily available at most tackle stores, that being said new TCurve came out last week so those models wont be around for very long. I get most of my shimano gear from Hooked on Bait and tackle in Hoppers Crossing, but you should be able to get them from most local tackle stores and online retailers. That expride is brilliant. You can also use 1-3kg bait rods, there are some vids on this channel that deep dive into trout baits, how to rig them and use them with light rods, so if you get a chance check those out.

[@19ZOLTAN18]

Karkarkook park is terrible land based. I wouldn’t call it “tiny” either. It’s very deep further out. That’s why kayak is perfect

[@fishingmad]

I've caught plenty of stonkers, trout and reddies land based fishing there but the yak is great there.

[@archerhume]

Skill issue, caught a massive stonker on monday from the sand just past the pier on a little spinner lure.

[@19ZOLTAN18]

@@archerhume good on you buddy. Great to know you have skill.

[@FahadMake]

Go in Roxburgh lake

[@21leemo]

mate you'd use ya kayak in a bath if you could

[@fishingmad]

LOL yeah I probably would. We did heaps of footage on the trout last year land based.

[@trxq7173]

Dont go here theres no fish 😉

[@shauny2146]

You said big breeders . Do these big rainbows actually breed in a small still lake like that?

[@Mattattard-x1k]

Trout don’t breed in these lakes. They need running water, that’s why they stock them