David’s first trout
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.
Western Lakes beauty
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.
Better than bone fishing!
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 [...]
Tups Indispensable one of our favourites
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.
Perfectly timed hookup!
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.
Brumbys saves the day!
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.
Early summer on the Macquarie River
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.
Late November on Four Springs
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.
Fishing at Port Sorell
A change from trout fishing, which is our major pursuit, this weekend's fishing experience was in the Port Sorell estuary. We found Australian Salmon to be thin in numbers, the flathead were generally small, but as a great backup in the rocky areas around the heads of the estuary there were plenty of rock cod and hard pulling wrasse. On light tackle we had lots of fun. Five year old Campbell and his dad, Matt, hooked a number of fish. Campbell was very excited to catch his largest fish to date
Late October on Four Springs
Jack and I went fishing at Four Springs on Wednesday hoping for some mayfly action in what seemed like almost ideal conditions - overcast, almost muggy, with light to moderate winds. However mayfly hatches are unpredictable and the hoped for hatch didn't occur. We love a challenge though and this fine brown took a mudeye (dragon fly lava) imitation suspended below a dry fly.