report ballarat lakes

Ballarat Lakes

Report Date-5/June /2011

The Fishing Reports are gathered from my personal fishing trips, with some reports coming from other reliable fishermen or other sources in the area. I hope these reports will give you good direction and the completion to a wonderful day.

Ballarat and District Lakes

Newlyn’s Reservoir

Reports sent to me show that some nice trout can be caught when fishing smelt patterns in a size 10 . For the bait fishermen earthworms and scrubbies are also producing the odd trout which are putting on the weight. Fisheries have stocked the lake again with very small brown trout which is good because you going to receive a better quality trout next year, but bad because of people keeping these small trout . (PLEASE PUT THEM BACK) .

Hepburn Lagoon

When this lake was first stocked after the rains the fish incredibly stacked on the weight and there was no effort in catching 20 to 30 trout of 700 grams in a day's fishing. I personally put back very single trout and happily so did all anglers that I saw fishing. When the word got out many people targeted the lake with 60 cars counted one day at the dairy end of the lake . Presently the trout have been caught and educated and all has evened out to were it has become hard to catch a trout and now anglers have to think and use their skills to catch a trout.

I was fishing there yesterday with John Lanchester, and fishing smelting flies where we both caught a few nice rainbow trout close to two pounds. It was bitterly cold but a great day fishing was had.

Lauiston Reservoir

Reports received come from John Guljas who said there are some nice trout moving around the lake feeding on baitfish. John caught a few trout with his best being a nice brown of 4 lbs.

Coliban's water going over the spillway. Courtesy Shane Cudmore

Water flowing from Lauiston. Courtesy Shane Cudmore

lower down the coliban spillway. Courtesy Shane Cudmore

Here's Shanes Photos

Coliban now 100% Courtesy Shane Cudmore

Back end of Lauiston Courtesy Shane Cudmore

Red Belly Black Snake out and about courtesy Shane Cudmore

Current Water Levels Images

I intend to keep these photos up to date as often as possible. If you anglers can take a photo of any lakes and heir water levels and e-mail them to me, it would help enormously.We could all then have a great reference source to help our fishing.

Dean Reservoir about 80% - 15-8-10

Dean Reservoir about 80%- 15-8-10

Newlyn's now 100% full 15-8-10

Water flowing over Newlyn's spillway

Water flowing out of Newlyn's Reservoir into creek

Hepburn Lagoon now 100% full- 15-8-10

Water flowing into Hepburn Lagoon from farm dam overflow

Water flowing along the road of Hepburn Lagoon

The Coliban Reservoir November 2009

Malmsbury Reservoir November 2009 Courtesy Matthew Giasoumi

Bullarto Reservoir

Photo Courtesy Keith Dowell

Bullarto Reservoir

Photo Courtesy Keith Dowell

Newlyn's Reservoir Oct 08

Newlyn's water level on the 14-june-08

Newlyn's Reservoir November 2007

Latest water level photo of Newlyn's Reservoir

Carl Ruben reports that Newlyn's Reservoir has a low water level and low clarity due to suspended sediment. 29/April/07

Photo Courtesy Carl Ruben

Newlyn's Reservoir is low, but holding up well. (25/Jan/07)

On this day it rained non-stop.

Wombat Reservoir as of 29/April/07

Photo Courtesy Carl Ruben

The Above photo of wombat taken on 22/July/07

(26/Jan/07) Wombat still a good water level with small trout rising.

Gong Gong Reservoir=- Carl Ruben reports that water is very very low and discolored from stirred up sediment.

(6/Feb/07) Gong Gong Reservoir, photo courtesy of Carl Ruban

October 08

Dean Reservoir water level on the 14-june-08

DEAN RESERVOIR

Dean Reservoir 13.4.2008

Dean Reservoir- There is evidence of an algal bloom. The water is a green color and quite cloudy. I did not see any fish movement, but I did see a platypus
surface a couple of times- Carl Ruben. 29/April/07

Photo Courtesy Carl Ruben

Dean Reservoir about 50% in a fair state. (25/Jan/07)

MALMSBURY RESERVOIR

Malmsbury Reservoir on 3/Jan/08

Water level of Malmsbury Reservoir 22/April/07

Water Level of Malmsbury on 26/Jan/07 (Back of lake)

WARTOOK RESERVOIR

Water level of Lake Wartook taken on 17/Feb/07. Looks to be in good condition, at a guess I'd say 80%

Photo Courtesy of Jason Litchfield.

COLIBAN RESERVOIR

Coliban Reservoir on 3/Jan/08

Latest Photo of Coliban Reservoir (15/Feb/07) sent in by fly-fisherman Carl Ruban who indicated that the Upper Coliban is being completely pumped out by contractors, with the water going into Lauiston. There are large numbers of large carp in the remaining puddles, throwing a rock in the water produced several large bow-waves and even some carp are not surviving. (See Photo Below)