Fly fishing tasmania – opening week 2012
Craig with an early season trout from Brumbys Creek. The past week and a half since the Tasmanian fishing season opening day has seen days of snow alternating with perfect blue sky days. We've fished Brumbys Creek, the Meander River, and Lake Hunstman over the past four days, with fish each day (including on Sunday, when Simone outfished us all!). Cold water temperatures have meant that the fish are harder to temp, and tailers have been...
July fly tying competition winners, August competition now open
Here are the winning and favourite entries from July's fly tying competition. The theme was 'midges', with Phil from Hobart taking out the $50 first prize voucher, with his innovative midge emerger. The impressive part of Phil's tie was the way that old stocking was stuffed with seal's fur, which in turn was then teased out with Velcro, to produce an almost unsinkable, highly-visible post. Second place went to Alan from Launceston, with his tidy 'Fore and Aft' Griffiths Gnats....
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Australian Fly Fishing Museum – Tasmania
We have some great news to announce: the 4 May 2013 will see the opening of the Australian Fly Fishing Museum, at Clarendon Estate, Nile, Tasmania. Clarendon House (owned and operated by the National Trust) is situated on the banks of the South Esk River, opposite Symmons Plains. Symonns Plains of course was the home of James Youl, the man responsible for bringing brown trout to Tasmania, so the location for the museum couldn't be better! ...
Orvis announces new Helios Rod – The Helios 2 (H2)
Awesome news from Orvis, with the announcement that a new Helios rod is imminent. The current 9 foot 5 weight Helios is already my favourite rod. The current Helios is a great allround taper, which is slow enough for spinner sippers on Brumbys Creek, but fast enough for long shots into a Western Lakes headwind. It also perfectly matches a true five weight line, including my favourite Orvis Hydros 3D textured line. With this in mind, I'm pretty excited about...
Patagonia Waders and Packs – now in stock
We are excited to have received our first samples of Patagonia Waders, packs, and wading boots, fresh off the plane from HQ in California. Included in this first batch are the award winning Rio Gallegos Waders, awesome Gunnison wading pants, and their range of chestpacks, slingpacks and backpacks. As stock arrives we will add sizes etc to the website, but be warned, it's first in best dressed as we are likely to sell out quickly. Drop us a note if you have...
Jazz and Fly Fishing DVD – Now in stock
Jazz and Fly Fishing, the crowd favourite of last year's Rise Fly Fishing Film Festival, have just released their first DVD. Featuring 9 episodes of Jazz and Fly Fishing themed stories, expect some quirky fly fishing, cool spring creeks, and smooth tunes. The only downside: the manditory Scandanavian sauna scene. Jazz and Fly Fishing is now available from FlyShop 1864 http://flyshop1864.com.au/shop/dvds/
Frosty mountain days…
An icy Little Pine Lagoon
Enter our monthly fly tying competition – this month’s theme is ‘midges’
We have just opened the July round of our fly tying competitions - it's our first round of monthly competitions, which will be a new and ongoing event for us at FlyShop 1864. This month's theme is midges, and there is a $50 gift voucher for the best fly, and a $25 voucher for the second placed fly. Send your entries (2 copies of your pattern) to us here at FlyShop 1864 by the 21st of July, with the winners announced on the 30th...
RiverFly Fly Fishing Report and Newsletter – June 2012
In this newsletter: ¨ RiverFly Wilderness Huts, Western Lakes – now open for bookings ¨ The Season Round-Up: Our Top 5 Fishing Locations for 2011/2012 ¨ Our Top Five Fly Fishing Products for 2011/2012 ¨ Fly Fishing Tips ¨ Patagonia Fly Fishing Gear, Coming to FlyShop 1864 RiverFly Wilderness Huts – check them out here After three years of planning, we are exciting to announce that we’ve finished building RiverFly Wilderness Huts! Tasmania’s only hut-based wilderness fly fishing destination, located...
Drake Magazine now in stock
The new Drake Mag for spring is now on the shelves, and the summer edition just arrived. Check it out here I'm just glad that i'm not the frog!
New Tasmanian trout fly patterns
We've just added some of our favourite fly patterns to the online shop. These include two fly patterns that we rely on every season, the Scruffy and Simon's Midge, along with some other proven pattern and classic Tasmanian ties. You can check out the new Scruffy, Simon's Midge, Hi-Viz Cripple, Flashback Potscrubber Nymph, Fiery Brown Beetle and Red Tags on our flies page.
Now online – Cliffs Outdoors fly boxes, and assorted fly tying materials
For our online shoppers, we've just added our range of Cliff Outdoors fly boxes, as well as a number of new materials: Holo Tinsel, Krystal Flash, Glo-Brite yarn, Bronze Mallard, Stripped Goose Biots, Hungarian Partridge and Golden Pheasant Tippets.
RiverFly Wilderness Huts – Western Lakes Tasmania
After 3 1/2 years of hard work and planning, we are excited to announce that we will be opening RiverFly Wilderness Huts in October 2012! RiverFly Wilderness Huts are located adjacent to the famous Western Lakes & Walls of Jerusalem National Park / World Heritage Area. The hut project has been a massive project for us, and is the first project of its kind in Tasmania to combine wilderness fly fishing and conservation. Of this we are extremely proud. This...
Fly Fishing Tasmania – end of season mini-report
Mayflies, midgers and tailers are all current highlights as the brown trout season comes to an end. The South Esk continues to have excellent black spinner falls and baetid dun hatches, with a few hours of rising trout being found most days (excepting frontal-weather system days). The Lower Meander still has the odd hopper feeder, and occassional baetid sippers, and the Lower Macquarie still features sporadic afternoon red spinner falls, and foam-line sippers. Up in the highlands and we have...