South Esk hoppers
Reminiscing fishing days.... Back in February on the South Esk River grasshoppers were sought after by the feisty brown trout. Shaun's well presented grasshopper pattern brought a few fish to take his offering.
Local creeks
Reminiscing fun fishing days now the season has closed. Large fish will enter small tributaries when the food supply is more abundant than the main stream. In this particular case grasshoppers were abundant enough at this spot for them to be at the top of the main menu. We know this this fish. I caught it around a year ago very close to the same spot. The water level was a little bit lower this time and the fish was six feet away from its usual lie.
Ballistic Rainbow
Bev and Mike's 3 day April fly fishing tour included the last weekend of the season and we spent their final day on Lake Leake. In the absence of any real surface activity apart from a couple of fins poking up here and there in this calm area, and not much food on the surface, we changed to a small wet fly just under the surface for this beautiful 58cm ballistic rainbow trout.
End of season brownie
As the brown trout season came to a close in April, this smelt feeder was attacking baitfish late in he day in a calm quiet corner on Four Springs Lake. This was Mike's first wild brown trout on a fly.
Four Springs, late season
Catching up on posts from the season... Ed came back to Tassie for a few days for some more fly fishing adventures with us. This was late season, on Four Springs, a lowland lake. On this day mayfly were popping off in pockets here and there and a few fish were cashing in on the opportunity. Well presented emerger mayfly patterns resulted in a number of good hookups, and keeping a cool head throughout the action, Ed had no trouble bringing the fish to the net safely.
All smiles on the Nineteen Lagoons
Catching up on posts from the season.... It was in January and Christopher and Harry enjoyed three days of very clear skies and light winds. Low flows in some cases on the central plateau required a stealthy approach and high levels of patience to get the opportunities for these wild brown trout to eat the fly. Harry is pretty happy with this beautiful wild brown trout from a lake in the Nineteen Lagoons, on Tasmania's Central Plateau Harry with a lovely wild brown from the Nineteen Lagoons region Wading one of the many [...]
Lurking in a little creek
It was late April, and armed with a 3 weight rod and a grasshopper I set off for an afternoon fish on a stream no wider than a kitchen table. This small creek winds its way through the northern midlands. Once upon a time it was known as Penny Royal Creek. Occasionally we do come across some surprisingly good specimens. This fish was caught again and released by another angler a week later.
Smelt Feeder
On this particular day earlier in April, it was hard to find enough mayfly on the surface or find any fish even looking for them. The tactic here was to find bust ups of small smelt spraying on the surface and the signs of charging trout. We hang in on the zone until they show again, then cast. Mark is pretty happy with this wild brown trout.
Early season on Four Springs
Four Springs. After a couple of short drifts and no action, we moved further across the lake and spotted a wind lane. Kylie kept in touch with a slow retrieve to get a solid hookup on her first Tasmanian brown trout.
Hard fighting wild trout
Between Christmas and new year, warm breezy conditions put a number of beetles on Great Lake, and coupled with a nice cloud cover, lead to good surface activity. Harry and Jim twitched large hopper style dry flies to land a number of fine, hard fighting brown and rainbow trout.