For fly fisher Robert Haines, yesterday was a trophy day.The 70-year-old stood on the banks of Lake Wendouree and recollected tossing in a line as a boy."I went out with my dad, pushed my bike down here. I've been fishing Lake Wendouree since I was 15 ... younger than that, probably 13."Mr Haines, a life member of Ballarat Fly Fishers, said he remembers long afternoons when 10 boats would be tied up at the club on the lake's shores."Fishermen are supposed to be patient." He laughs. "We've had to be."Mr Haines yesterday joined other local fishermen and council officers to witness the release of 90,000 baby rainbow trout. The fish were brought to Ballarat in water-filled crates on the back of a truck from the hatchery at Snobs Creek at Eildon.They were then poured into small plastic drums and ferried by boat to various locations around the lake for release."We're absolutely rapt," Mr Haines said."It won't only be locals...there will be a lot of Melbourne people. It will bring money to the town. This is a mecca for fly fishing in Victoria. We've all been waiting for this."Geoff Cramer, chairman of Victoria's peak recreational fishing organisation VR Fish, said restockings were currently taking place across western Victoria.Fisheries Victoria is proposing to release a further 75,000 brown trout into Lake Wendouree next month."With lakes filling up so fast there's going to be so much extra food in there," Mr Cramer said."It will be great to see kids riding their bikes down here in the evenings and fishing off the jetties."Mr Cramer said it would be about 12 months before the fish were big enough to catch.