With winter almost here, tailing trout and midge (chironomid) feeders are presently providing the feature fishing here at Millbrook. It’s great fun, but not easy – the fish are very short-sighted as they grub for scud and snails in the weed, or hunt for the prolific midge pupa on cloudy light wind days. Still, fast pin-point accurate casts with a [...]
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Tailers and Midge Feeders
Posted in fishing Australia, flyfishing, lake fishing, Uncategorized, Victorian fishing on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
May Days
Posted in fishing Australia, flyfishing, lake fishing, Victorian fishing on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve fished the central Victorian lakes since the late 1970’s so it’s no surprise that they’ve been an important part of my flyfishing life. Many of my fishing friendships were built on these waters, while much of what I know about lake fishing was discovered and tested out there. Cairn Curran 10 years ago. During [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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