Last weekend I enjoyed my maiden Tassie fishing trip for the new season, finally managing to combine a book event (at Fullers in Hobart) and some media engagements with a cast or two. The first thing I must mention is the quantity of water. In nearly 3 decades of visits to Tasmania, I’ve never seen [...]
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EARLY SEASON TASMANIA
Posted in fishing Australia, flyfishing, lake fishing, Tasmanian flyfishing, tagged Australian flyfishing, fishing, Fishing Season, flyfishing, Lake Echo, lake season fishing, Philip Weigall, season, southern hemisphere, Tasmania, Tasmanian flyfishing on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New photos and reviews added
Posted in books, events, fishing Australia, Fishing Season, flyfishing, reviews, writing, tagged events, Exisle Publishing, fishing, Fishing Season, free stuff, gallery, images, media, Philip Weigall, reviews on July 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just letting you know there have been some photos added to the Gallery page and Tahnee has kindly updated the Fishing Season page with reviews, including one from Freshwater Fishing magazine: “… The book contains 26 stories that vary from a tantalising four pages to more substantial offerings of about three times that size. This is a book [...]
LUCKY FLY?
Posted in fishing Australia, flies, flyfishing, lake fishing, Victorian fishing, writing, tagged Australian flyfishing, fishing, Fishing Season, flies, flyfishing, lake season fishing, Millbrook Lakes, season, southern hemisphere, Victoria on June 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A few years ago, Muz Wilson gave me some of his Emu Woolly Buggers to try. They worked, and as happens with successful flies owned by flyfishers who forget to re-order, their numbers were soon depleted. Eventually I was down to one survivor – a large green one that had caught trout from Lake Jindabyne [...]
STREAMS CLOSE, BUT PLENTY HAPPENING ON THE LAKES
Posted in fishing Australia, flyfishing, tagged Alps, Australian flyfishing, Fishing Season, flyfishing, lake season fishing, Philip Weigall, season, Snowy Mountains, southern hemisphere, Victoria, writing on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Winter is truly here in south-eastern Australia, with another half-metre snowfall across the Snowy Mountains and the Victorian Alps to follow on from the blizzard in late April. I managed a mid-May trip to the Mitta River system for one last crack at the mountain streams. It was great fun, with plenty of fish caught [...]



