troutterritory

Tim enjoyed sight fishing to wild river browns on the St Patrick's with small grasshopper imitations. Tim covered sippers in the shade and polaroided fish in the open sunny sections and was able to bring a few fish to hand.

Reliable even in the toughest of conditions, Arthur's Lake produces the first ever trout for David. This brownie took a well placed cast in amongst the sticks.

Enjoying several days fishing Tassie's rivers and lakes, Jon was particularly pleased with this lovely Western Lakes brown. In tough light with windy conditions, this beauty took a parachute hackle red spinner.

Stalking with a dry fly to big wild brown trout over sandy bottoms. It's December, summer in Tasmania. Visiting from the UK, Alec Tarrant is an experienced fly fisher, frequenting salty waters for species such as bone fish and tarpon. Alec is keen to find out if Tasmania's wild trout fishing offers the same heart thumping excitement. Alex is staying at Ross in the northern midlands. I meet him at his accommodation, Somercotes, and we head east to Lake Leake. Lake Leake's current water level is around 200nm below spilling. This time last year the lake was very low. Fortunately [...]

An accomplished wet fly fisherman, John wanted to develop his dry fly skills, which he did, landing a number of browns, including this fine trout, using one of our favourite flies, the Tups Indispensable.

In bright conditions, Fergus watched this Great Lake brownie leisurely come up to chomp down on a large foam beetle imitation, timed the hook-up beautifully and here is the happy result.

Once again, Brumbys saves the day! Starting the day in the highlands at Penstock, the wind started whipping sheets of water through the air, so we came down to check out some protected spots on the northern lowland rivers. This nice brownie was polaroided and after a tricky cast it came up to sip Gary's small orange beetle imitation.

Wakao and Yuki, having never held a fishing rod, enjoyed some fly fishing lessons as well as lure fishing. In tough bright, calm conditions they landed fish. Here, Wakao enjoys this gorgeous early summer day on the Macquarie.

By late November the weed in Four Springs Lake was getting very thick, yet we found a few corridors in the weed where fish were working out in the open. David timed the lift on this fine brown taking his royal hairwing coachman fly and managed to apply enough side strain regularly to steer the fish away from the thick weed beds.