Three lakes and an estuary
Across four days fly fishing with Gary in Tasmania, Christopher and Brian enjoyed a number of lakes and the Tamar estuary. On Arthurs Lake we found activity and success to surface pulled flies around the Hydro Bay islands, where we also found some decent froth lines, drawing up typical Arthurs browns to grasshopper patterns. Little Pine Lagoon in good overcast conditions with a light to moderate breeze from the north fished rather well, with numbers of fish landed and the best action in the middle of the afternoon to a few waves of duns hatching. Early overcast conditions on Penstock [...]
Rainbow trout on a two fly rig
Mayfly duns drifting down, just a few. Two fly rig, one emerging dun and a nymph underneath. This rainbow trout chose the nymph.
Feisty lowland river brown trout
In Tasmania, feisty lowland river brown trout, when showing interest in hovering damsel flies - a moving target - are hard to tempt. With this beautiful trout, a well presented black spinner, size 12, did the trick. A drag free drift is paramount in any dry fly presentation. Image: Gary France, Trout Territory #traumreel
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.