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Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice. 4.30pm, and it’s all but dark in the Tasmanian Western Lakes. Currawongs are flocking in mobs, wallabies and wombats are grazing madly on soon-to-be snow covered grasses, and the resident wedge tailed eagles are cruising the plains. If the hair-encrusted devil turds are anything to go by, the hunting has been good this winter.…
Read MoreRedington Butter Stick – retro rods at a blue-collar price
Fibreglass rods are back! In the last thirty years, glass technology has changed a lot – from the equivalent of heavy woven matting, glass technology now uses single direction fibres, resulting in crisp and lightweight rods – so much so that a glass rod now weights about as much as a carbon fibre equivalent. So why bother…
Read MoreLate season brown trout – fly fishing Tasmania
The main season might be over, but there are still brown and rainbow trout to be had. Matt celebrated the 150th anniversary of trout arriving in Tasmania with this bucking brown from the Lost River. The new low-stretch Rio Perception line was awesome for detecting the subtle pulls and taps, whilst swinging wets down-and-across.
Read MoreA few of my favourite things…
It’s autumn, the wind is low, the mayfly are out, and the trout are packing on the calories before winter. If they’re not good enough reasons for fly fishing in Tasmania during April, then here are a few of my own favourite highlights from the past fortnight: Baitfish feeders: As baitfish in the rivers head back to…
Read MoreCosta 580G Polaroids
I have a confession: I’m a sunglasses tart. Out of all the technology out there, polaroid glass technology has been the quickest to change during my 11 years of guiding. As a consequence, I change glasses every couple years. Who’s leading the way currently? This season has seen me wearing Costa 580G glasses, my favourite…
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