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.
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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 »
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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