Mid-season rundown from RiverFly 1864

The season so far… Spring and early summer river fishing has been very dynamic. River levels were extremely reactive to rainfall (rising quickly), which meant taking each day as it comes from a fishing-planning perspective. With the extra flows and floods, the average fish size in the Mersey and Meander was bigger than previous seasons,…

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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…

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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…

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RiverFly Tasmania fly fishing report – Autumn 2010

Wild Tasmanian hopper feeder   Gone Fishing…  It’s been three months since our last fishing report, but with good reason: we’ve spent more than 50 days on the rivers since our last note, guiding through pre-Christmas red and black spinner falls, summer hopper hatches and the beginning of the autumn mayflies, and spent another 30…

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