Mountains have been getting quite a bit of rain lately, which is obviously good for the rivers, flora an so on, but for us fishermen never ending rain can soon become pretty annoying. We were really close on cancelling this trip when the forecast showed 20mm of rain and rather thought going having
Now after bass fishing got slow, it was time to get back onto trout rivers in the Central West. Went back to my usual stomping grounds and to my surprise found that the river is running way lower than previous couple of years. Also not much insect activity happening for some reason, as I was expecting
The last bass trip down the coast for the year. The plan was to try and chase bream during the day in the nearby estuaries and hit rivers for bass in the evenings. Well, the plan didn’t really pan out as bream were far and in between, while bass not feeding off the top anymore. Seems like weather
It was pretty nice to take a boat on the Sydney Harbour this gorgeous summer day. We were hoping to get amongst kingfish at some point but it being a Saturday harbour became so crazy busy by the lunch time I was happy to land anything really. Even pulling out kawhai out of the school wasn’t
Went back to my favourite bass spot for couple of nights camping and fishing. Had a few good little sessions in the evenings and lasted all the way into the night. In the past I would primarily use cicada patterns but this time I changed things up and used poppers exclusively. The sound of popping
This time we made a solid effort to drive deep into the mountains, trying to find an access to one of the remote rivers there. First day we spent driving around through state forests and getting lost a few times, spending a night just at the random campsite in the National Park, which wasn’t
Another trip out west, across the Blue Mountains, but this time decided to do an overnighter instead. We wanted to check one spot before the weather got ridiculously hot. It’s a section of the Fish river last time I fished it was probably 4 or 5 years ago. So we wanted to give it a good crack
Pretty good day out in the Central West, NSW. We started off with throwing some dry flies but after an hour on the water noticed that river is running a bit high and murky and that not much surface activity happening. After we changed our dry flies and put squirmy or bright coloured bead head nymph
Just came across this awesome tune. Should really be an anthem for flyfshing. What a groove! Glens Hughes voice just doesn’t seem to get old. Enjoy!
Here’s some photos I took during the season opener weekend down in the Snowy Mountains. We managed to fish two different rivers having a pretty good success landing a mixed bag of rainbows and browns. Mostly just smaller size trout that were not that keen on taking our dries, so we only managed
