Welcome to the Roxburgh Park Fishing Guide. Roxburgh Park Lake is nestled within the residential area of Roxburgh Park, on the road from Melbourne towards Craigieburn. It’s a small lake with walking areas and is home to a good volume of Redfin. It’s also stocked annually with trout fingerlings and metro stonkers by Victorian fisheries. This makes it an excellent spot for kids and beginners to catch a fish. Scattered around Roxburgh Park are also little lakes and dams that hold good numbers of redfin. Google Maps will be your friend here.
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Things to do at Roxburgh Park
Roxburgh Park is located 21 kilometres from the CBD. A growing affordable area developed in the 1990s and is now home to roughly 25,000 residents. It is located near the townships of Craigieburn and Greenvale. There are many parks for the kids, cafes, shops and the trampoline centre. Nearby facilities include a train station, a golf course, schools, and retirement villages.
Fishing in Roxburgh Park
At Roxburg Park Lake, you can target
- Redfin
- Trout
- Silver Perch
- Stonker trout
This lake is occasionally stocked with rainbow trout just before school holidays. Use this link to follow Victorian trout stocking programs. Last year, Roxburgh Park Lake was stocked with 800 trout yearlings and 10 trout up to 4 kilos in size. If you are fishing with bait, we recommend using power bait in bright colours, live minnows, scrub worms, maggots, and mudeye under a float, a paternoster rig, or a small running sinker rig. When fishing with lures and soft plastics, we strongly suggest starting with small soft plastics, including curl tails and paddle tails, spinners, and shallow-diving hard-body lures.
Recommended baits for Roxburgh Park
The video below demonstrates the best baits for trout and how to rig them correctly.
- Scrub worms
- Mudeye
- Powerbait
- maggots
- Earthworms
- yabbies
- live minnows
Recommended lures for Roxburgh Park
Need some help choosing lures and soft plastics. The video below is a detailed guide to get you started.
- Daiwa Double Clutch
- Pontoon 21 paco spoon
- Tassie Devils 13.5 grams in pinks and whites
- Bluefox spinners
- Rapala Countdown Floating Minnow
- EcoGear MX48
- YoZuri pins minnow
- Daiwa presso minnows
- Nories laydown minnow
- Bluefox spinners
- OSP bent minnow
- Daiwa DR joint minnows
- Strike tiger nymph
- Berkley powerbait grub
- Bullet lures 5-0 minnow
- Zman 2.5-inch grub
- Bullet lures 3cm lure
Watch this video of FishingMad fishing at Yarrambat Lake for huge trout.
Targeting Trout at Roxburgh Park
We highly recommend you read our detailed guide on how to catch trout, which details our favourite lures, baits and techniques. You can follow when trout will be stocked using the Victorian trout stocking programs as part of the target 1 million by 2020 and 10 million by 2022 initiatives. We recommend shallow diving hard body minnows, metal spoons, spinners, and Tassie devils when using lures. Soft plastics are also very effective on trout. If you’re bait fishing, then Mudeye, scrub worms, powerbait, yabbies, and minnows suspended on a float or a running sinker rig. Fly fishing is a popular fishing method at this location. Trout are more active in cold conditions, with most catches on the first and last light of the day. We recommend a 2-4 kilo fishing rod, coupled with a 2000 or 2500 reel, spooled with 4-8-pound braid and an equivalent fluorocarbon leader. If trophy-size trout are around, you could go heavier, moving up the scale to a 3-5 kilo class spin rod spooled with fine 8-12-pound braid and equivalent fluorocarbon leader.
Targeting Redfin at Roxburgh Park
We recommend targeting Redfin with a light-spin outfit. This will make the experience more enjoyable and improve your catch rates. A 2-4 kilo fishing rod, coupled with a 2000 or 2500 reel spooled with 4-8-pound braid and an equivalent fluorocarbon leader, should be perfect. Redfin respond really well to lures and soft plastics, so be sure to check our guide on the best lures for catching Redfin. When using soft plastics, we highly recommend curl tails, minnow imitations, and paddle tails in both natural and bright colours, rigged on a 1/8 through to 1/16 jighead. The most effective way to use these is to cast towards visible structure and slow roll the soft plastic with lifts and pauses for the retrieve. Shallow diving hard body lures, blades and vibes are also very effective in this system. So are traditional spinners and Tassie devils in bright colours. Metal spoons also play a role, allowing you to cast great distances and target the bigger size reddies. Just remember, they are pretty heavy and very prone to snags in small inland systems like this one.
Targeting Silver Perch at Roxburgh Park
Silver Perch have been heavily stocked in recent years and are a great species for bait anglers. They have a legal size limit of 30cm and a bag limit of 5 per person (0 limit for Rivers and streams north of the Great Dividing Range, excluding the Wimmera Basin). We recommend a 2-4 kilo fishing rod, coupled with a 2000 or 2500 reel, spooled with 4-8-pound braid and an equivalent fluorocarbon leader. Using a simple running sinker rig or float rig with a small size six baitkeeper hook with scrubworms, shrimp or yabbies as the best bait. They will also take small soft plastics, but most commonly are targeted with bait.
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