Fly fishing

Early season and a cool day. Persistence with a bead-head nymph over the weed beds at Arthur's Lake landed John this fine brown trout.

Later in the day as the hatch wanes, fish will still show to the odd dun. Anthony uses a keen eye and a quick cast to nail this one.

Visiting American outdoors journalist, Dale Spartas, while in Melbourne for his daughter's wedding, took the opportunity to enjoy a Tasmanian angling experience. After heavy rains, dirty water, and with most trout fisheries closed, we decided to spend a couple of hours on the Tamar River. Between Ray, Dale and myself we landed more than 40 Australian Salmon on the fly.

Once again grasshoppers are the order of the day on a northern lowland river. Harry quite easily places the fly in just the right spot over and over. Harry proudly shows off one of several caught on this exciting blue sky late season day.

Very late season and lowland streams still yield good numbers of feisty browns to those keen enough to be out and about and Ziggy was certainly keen!

Late season, and in tough conditions, Bill and Nicole spent a couple of days chasing our wild trout and by the end of the weekend they had landed many nice fish. This excellent brownie is Nicole's first ever experience of a fish on the end of a line.

Kat enjoys a lot of fishing in WA, mainly in saltwater, and is delighted to land her first ever wild Tasmanian brown trout at Arthur's Lake. In early February, fishing amongst the shade of the trees on a hot bright day will often bring great results.

Late summer on Arthur's Lake, Vicki was determined not to let the tough windy conditions get the better of her, and landed a couple of well marked browns on the dry fly.

After many visits to Tasmania and lots of good trout, this is one of Peter's best browns on the dry for a while. Out on Great Lake chasing the sharks in less than average conditions, this strong fish took some coaxing to bring in.