Days Like These…

Blue hues, dramatically enhanced by polarised lenses. Amphibian shoes, scratched by scoparia, encounter decades-old fences. Thousands of tarns and lagoons, barely any trees Taking full advantage of sight-fishing days like these.

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It’s time to start chasing those pesky sea runners!

Exploration

With fishing, comes instinct. A deep-seeded drive to hunt, stalk and achieve. What was once out of necessity for the human race is now pure desire, for many. Along with this drive comes a fascination with the unknown and a yearning to explore deeper than you have ever been, perhaps where no man hath trodden.…

Anticipation

It is possibly the single-most important element to the fly fisher’s emotive process. The moment before mayhem, the tick before the tug, the tock before the take. It’s the cliché calm before the storm, the heightened pulse rate penetrating every part of your body like a rolling thunder. It’s the lump in the back of…

Off and Racing!

Despite recent rain enough for rivers to break banks, I managed to open my account on the rivers to kick off the Tasmanian 2013/14 trout season. I set off for the St Patricks River, expecting it to be still out over the banks but was surprised to arrive at a very full but clear river.…

Open Season – Tasmania

Anglers across Tasmania and abroad are gradually coming out of hibernation to wave their wand for the opening of the 2013/14 season. Great numbers of quirky crew will be heading to their local haunt this weekend to tangle with a brown trout, a sometimes-complex little species that many would not have seen for three months…

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The river-cairn sessions – I wonder if it’s still there?

Casting at Shadows – NZ

The next instalment from these guys is now available and is based in New Zealand’s South Island, chasing trout. Once again, the footage looks superb and the trailer alone whets my appetite to get back over there!

Predator Fly Fishing Film

Gin-Clear Media have knuckled down in recent years, to bring fly-fishing into our lounge rooms, workspaces and man caves. Their seemingly effortless delivery hides the fact that sophisticated equipment is painstakingly employed. They quickly grabbed the attention of anglers with The Source series, with instalments featuring Tasmania, New Zealand and Iceland. Audiences worldwide soon flocked…