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 with sporadic fish showing far and wide, the clouds disappeared and a few spinner came out as the breeze turned from the south. Brian polaroided this lovely brown trout and covered it with an emerger. Condition factor is not a question here, this fish took some effort to land.
Tamar River, arriving just before high tide, we focused on the whiting in protected areas with a number of fish landed. Christopher managed to find a groove with numbers of fish coming one after the other, and Brian’s fish of 53cm was the horse.
Images by Gary France, Trout Territory
