Fishing in winter, for many, is simply non-existent. Especially with the vast majority of Tasmanian trout waters closed. Even the thought of wetting a line sends some of the hairiest humans into hibernation. I mean, why would you want to leave the warmth of your cosy abode, drive forever dodging nocturnal monsters on frosty roads, only…
It’s not all about trout and it’s not all about freshwater. We’ll chase anything with fins!
Work commitments recently involved a trip to Hobart, where I needed to blah blah blah blah blah, yadda yadda, blah…. More importantly, this opened up an opportunity to slide in a quick fish after work and before trekking back to warmer climes (North-South rivalry anyone?). I lived down this way a few years back and found myself fishing…
This bream has seen better days…
I recently had a successful mission fishing for bream with surface flies, so when a rostered day off work coincided with some decent weather (for once!) I became torn between thoughts of polaroiding trout in the Western Lakes or polaroiding bream on the East Coast instead. The bream won this time. I rocked up to a sweet…
Here’s a snippet of a new DVD coming out soon focusing on catching black bream in Tasmania on fly and lures. There’s a sweet piece of footage that appears to be a big bream taking a dry fly…
I’ve had a massive urge for some time now to attempt a black bream on a surface fly. I’ve only caught a few bream on fly before but I never really target them enough on the long wand. Anyway, I whipped up a few popper-styled flies about a year ago and I’ve only been out…
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