Each year, I try to snatch one last trip to the mountain streams before winter closes in completely, and in the middle of May we headed to the Mansfield area. I grew up at the base of Mt Buller, the peak that towers over this landscape, and I learned to fish on the neighbouring streams. Everytime [...]
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The Log Bridge
Posted in fishing Australia, flyfishing on May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
FROM BACKCOUNTRY TO BRUNNER
Posted in flyfishing, New Zealand, tagged fishing, flyfishing, New Zealand flyfishing, southern hemisphere on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After an absence of several months, I’ve enjoyed two trips to New Zealand already in 2010, and they couldn’t have been more different. The first in late January was to one of the most remote places I’ve been for a while. For 7 days, a few mates and I hiked up a backcountry river (and [...]
Snowy Days
Posted in fishing Australia, Fishing Season, flyfishing, lake fishing, tagged Australian flyfishing, fishing, Fishing Season, flyfishing, lake season fishing, Philip Weigall, season, Snowy Mountains, southern hemisphere, writing on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In typical early season fashion, stonefly were the predominant insect on the rivers at first, bring a few excited rises as they fluttered too close to the water (although stonefly nymphs are aquatic, adult stonefly emerge on land.) However toward the end of my trip, mayfly duns began to appear, and the dry fly fishing lifted accordingly. My mate Steve, who stayed on after I headed home, gleefully informed me that the hatches have only got better.
Looks like we have some New Zealand fans of Fishing Season
Posted in books, Fishing Season, flyfishing, reviews, tagged fishing books, Fishing Season, media, New Zealand flyfishing, Philip Weigall, reviews, southern hemisphere on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These elements, when combined with the refined writing, promote Fishing Season from the ranks of just another fishing book, to one with perhaps a broader appeal. While essentially a contemplative book about the fly fishing experience, I think it will pique the interest of readers who have no yearning for fishing because it has qualities that transcend the subject matter.
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 »
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 [...]
Aussie Angler book signing
Posted in books, events, Fishing Season, flyfishing, Victorian fishing, writing, tagged Australian flyfishing, events, Fishing Season, flyfishing, gallery, images, Philip Weigall, Victoria, writing on August 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Photograph compliments of David Grisold
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 [...]
June 11, 2009
Posted in flyfishing, tagged about me, biography, fishing, Fishing Season, flyfishing, Philip Weigall, writing on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are many other reasons why flyfishing sips people in as surely as a mayfly caught in the vortex of a rise, but in any event I am one of them. My first coherent childhood memory involves catching a fish as a 3 year old, right down to the smells of eel-slime, the riverside silt and tea-tree.
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