Fly Fishing
Fly fishing Tasmania – searching for tailers
Tailing trout, or tailers’ as we like to call them, are the number one target for September. They can be bloody hard – spooky, head in the weeds, and fickle, but they make up for it by the visual nature of the fishing. Swirls, tails, and fins all giving away the position of these shallow water…
Read MoreTasmanian fly fishing season opens tommorrow – here’s our tips
We are in for a ripper start to the season – that’s my prediction! The weather this week has been shocking, with category #2 cyclone equivalent winds yesterday, and more than 300 mm of rain in some of the catchments this week. But despite this, we are expecting some brilliant fishing as the weather moderates.…
Read MoreHookup on the Lost River – trout fishing Tasmania, May 2013
We’ve swapped upstream dry fly for down-and-across wet fly this month. The result has been some fun fishing on seasonal rivers…I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.
Read MoreDrift fishing a remote Tasmanian river, somewhere…
We recently took the time out to raft-fish one of the most remote river valleys in Tasmania. We found some of the largest trees in Tasmania, along with giant freshwater crays and hundreds of eager trout. The end of the trip saw us back around the midlands, fishing to some great hopper feeders, which are…
Read MoreFly Fishing Tasmania Hatch Chart – 31 August, 2012
Here it is, your weekly instalment of the FlyShop 1864 hatch chart! Have fun, and fish the hatches! Daniel and Simone, RiverFly Tasmania.
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