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 [...]
Autumn Swallows
Posted in fishing Australia, flyfishing, Uncategorized, Victorian fishing on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s taken a while, but I finally managed to catch up with Christopher Bassano for the first time since I caught that monster brown with him last September. This time it was my turn to play guide. With our good friend Max, in late April we headed to the streams, starting on the King River [...]
ABC Podcast with Scott Levi
Posted in books, events, fishing Australia, flyfishing, Victorian fishing on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last Saturday I had another enjoyable interview with NSW presenter and keen flyfisher Scott Levi. This time Scott asked me to read an excerpt from Fishing Sense. I chose a passage with a little lesson about micro-presentation, set on the Steavenson River just over the Great Divide from Melbourne. You can listen to the podcast [...]
New Book – Fishing Sense
Posted in books, fishing Australia, flyfishing, New Zealand, Tasmanian flyfishing, Victorian fishing on July 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My new book Fishing Sense has arrived and should be finding its way out to stores over the next couple of weeks. I’ll be signing copies at Petrachs Bookshop, Launceston Tasmania on Friday 29 July, and at Aussie Angler, Greensborough Victoria on 13 August.
The Return of the King
Posted in fishing Australia, flyfishing, Uncategorized, Victorian fishing on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What an incredible few months of fishing we’ve had in Victoria. There are now dozens of lakes in the west that are fishing very well, at least some of which, like Hepburn and Tullaroop, that were little more than puddles this time last year. It isn’t only the lakes that are thriving. One welcome return to the [...]
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
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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