Froggy had always wanted to learn to fly fish, and a visit to Tasmania was the perfect opportunity. He is already a keen lure fisher from the south coast of NSW and wanted to improve his ability to catch a trout. Casting and understanding of fly fishing came along nicely and he caught brown and rainbow trout on the fly.
Here’s Froggy with his brown trout from Four Springs Lake.
Father and son team Peter and Stewart Rasmussen were keen to improve their fly fishing knowledge and skill level.
We spent the day at Penstock Lagoon in Tasmania’s highlands. There were a few jassids around but the trout were showing more interest in the adult mayfly; the spinner.
In light wind conditions, stealth was needed to get close enough to these fish for the cast and good presentation was crucial.
Peter and Stewart’s presentations were spot on, and here is their fine brace of wild brown trout.
On the last weekend of the 2017/18 wild brown trout season for Tasmania, temperatures had dropped in the highlands so we decided on a day at Four Springs. With hardly any surface food there weren’t many rises, so we got stuck into it with a nymph under the emerger. Jon landed this well conditioned hen rainbow.