Glo Bugging trout | how to use flies on a spinning rod

A glo bug, or glow bug is a fly that is used to imitate a trout egg that has just hatched, which is something that is a food source for wild trout. Glo bugging is a technique used to catch trout in late autumn and winter each year.
Thankfully here in Victoria we have a closed trout season to protect spawning trout, so glow bugging is usually restricted to the last few weeks of the trout season.
My rod: Crucis 642 travel rod.

[adamfraser]

Farkens to the Max! Whole family, including aunties and uncles!
Great new footage Chop.

[zakijan]

Cracker of a video Robbie! That intro brings back memories from a few years ago

[stevenelliott]

G'day Robbie. Way back when, I used this method on my favorite trout river, the Thredbo. The key is to get it as close to the river bed as possible. I used to leave a tag of a few cm's to which you could add split shot to get it just rambling over the bottom. Also you could add a trailing nymph about 30 to 40 cm's from the glow bug. Often they would hit the nymph more then the glow bug. I believe Starlo was one of the first to bring this method to Australia, having learnt it from the Americans.

[crissmith]

Trout are a fantastic fish so lucky to have trout in Australia great video Robbie !

[BlackCountryPiker]

Funny how the rainbows were on it more so! Some proper skinny water trouting there Robbie 👍

[spinninoutontrout]

G'day G'day Robbie. That was a healthy creek with all the rainbows in one pool.
Good move switching creeks. Great video 👍

[joelvivian]

That's was absolutely nutz lol. Like a rainbow trout congregation... maybe they where waiting for there spawning trout egg and bacon lol

[downunderfishing]

Just finished watching Robbie it was great the rainbows were all over it today but you did get that nice brownie at the end

[mrploppy]

Woohoo!! we have been looking forward to this one! what a vid!

[harpfishing]

The intro is amazing, brings back memories👍

[HLsab]

Good to see the Farkins are still going strong

[Lightning-zdqm]

Very nice trout! This was great to watch! Awesome release footage too 😁🎣

[johnnyvee]

Another great video Robbie.
Love the random joke as well. Ha ha ha 🤘

[glenbaker]

I’ve never tried it but a bloke I met fishing for trout behind my place was using a polystyrene ball dipped in orange food colour with a split shot embedded within it. Seemed to be working for him. Good to see the fockers are still living there. Cheers buddy.

[TheOutbackFisherman]

Wow very cool fishing session mate! I’ve never heard of a glo bug before but they look great!
I’ve just tested positive to covid so I’ll be able to watch some videos as they come out now, without being busy

[AndrewColstonFishing]

Who needs a fly rod? Haha! Good stuff Robbie, some lovely fish there. 🤙🏻

[martindekorte]

Great session Mate 👌👊 7 out of the one hole was amazing!

[AndrewFishman]

Great session mate. The Farkers were on fire :D I went out for a looksee on Wednesday. The rivers were nice and clear in some places, but running too high to really bother. I did not have a rod, but was oping to get out later in the week before close of season this weekend. Not to be so I will just live gratuitously through your video :D

[julianigoe]

Worth being late for. Fantastic trout action Robbie 🍻👍

[hookysprospecting]

HI ROBBIE GOOD LOOKING TROUT YUM YUM AND THE EGG WORKS AWESOME MATE CHEERS RON