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
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 [...]
Is fly fishing on your list?
Is fly fishing on your list of things to try? On our guided tours we'll teach you the basics of fly casting, fly selection, how to find the trout, how to make your fly behave so it looks good enough to eat (to a trout!) and much more! At the end of the day you'll have some new skills and quite possibly a new passion. Any time of year is a good time to learn! Peter and Kristine came this past January to learn fly fishing, and while there were some challenging conditions in Tassie’s highlands, they didn't let the [...]
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.