Early September in Tassie’s northern lowlands
Water temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius, and no sign of any real surface activity or insects. A bright clear day, so we adopted wet flies and worked on different retrieves, which undid a few fish, mainly close to shore. This fish is showing a recovery from some cormorant damage, has maintained condition and pulled strongly.
First time on fly for fishing mates
Dave with his wild brown trout Darryl and Dave had a couple of days learning to fly fish in Tassie. We included a lot of focus on line control, casting techniques, an overview of fly fishing. Putting their new skills into practice, Darryl and Dave both landed 2 nice fish. Darryl with his wild brown trout
Trout Territory fly fishing tours in Tasmania
Got a minute? That's all you need to check out this great little video about Trout Territory! Gary talks about Tasmania's beautiful trout fishery and how we can help anglers have a great time when they come fishing with us. This gorgeous video is filmed by IdeasbanQ as part of Tourism Australia's #NECIAUS program. Thank you Merel, Billie-Jo, and Dennis for your fabulous assistance!
Honeymoon on the fly
Newlyweds Tyler and Nicole have a go at fly fishing while on their honeymoon in Tasmania. Tyler and Nicole both caught on to casting and line control techniques rather quickly. This wild brown trout came to a wet fly. We were working on the fringes of deep areas to find fish that weren't really interested in looking up in these bright conditions. Here we were using a 2 fly rig with a bead-head weighted wet fly on the point. The fish missed one fly and caught the other fly behind the dorsal fin. Fish hooked this way are much harder [...]