It’s your day off work and you’ve been awaiting its arrival, pondering thoughts of blue-sky days, huge hatches and chubby trout. Reality closes in and as soon as you awake from your slumber, the cold front arrives before the coffee is even brewed. A quick trawl of Internet-weather forecasts worsens your enthusiasm – howling winds,…
With every season comes a renewed desire to explore new water. Somewhere I’ve never been, somewhere I’ve never fished. It might be a whole new river, maybe even just a new section. It’s sometimes a wilderness lake, many kilometres walk from any road, allowing for plenty of pondering as you re-trace the paths of the…
Finally, after three months of closure, the brown trout season is upon us. We were welcomed with a mild day with sunshine even poking it’s nose out from time to time! My wife and I recently welcomed our son Mason into the world so I knew any opening day plans would be brief. It worked…
With brown trout season now closed, options are limited to tangle with our tiny trout. There’s a few little specified rainbow waters still open for those willing to brave the cooler conditions, which is what I did with good Cobber, Andy Howell. At this time each year, we like to head to a small creek…
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