Last winter season trip to the South Coast is done and dusted. This time salmon were on the smaller size compared to previous trips, but pretty good fun on an 8wt nevertheless. A few creatures have been keeping the company on the beach and enjoying the sun and warming weather, as it can be seen in
Normally a little bit of rain is supposed to be good for the trout, especially now coming into the Autumn and pre-spawn season. But last couple of weeks brought more rain than anticipated, so all major trout rivers in the Blue Mountains got flooded pretty badly. After waiting a few days for the water
Couple weeks ago we decide to have a summertime overnight trip into the Blue Mountains to explore some little creeks and see how they doing mid summer, and what condition they gonna be for the upcoming grasshopper season. Firstly our way took us into a little town of Taralga for some breakfast and
After coming back from the trip up North, I wanted to complete a NSW freshwater Grand Slam – to catch three different spieces within a week. The easiest to complete that was to do a quick trip up to the Blue Mountains to my well known spots and catch a trout as the third and last spieces of
After spending some time over in Europe it was nice to come back home and get onto the trout streams of the Blue Mountains. Season has gotten into a full swing by now, with plenty of wildlife and insects out and about. I managed to do one day trip to one of my favorite spots, where majority of the
New vid is up on Youtube. This time scouting smaller streams of the Blue Mountains, during a rainy period last summer. There’s always some fun to be had, no matter how tough the conditions are. Put in the miles, and you’ll be rewarded.
Here we go again. Another year has gone by. Crazy how fast it goes. For the last trip of the season we decided to ditch the tent living and the spawn run, instead hire a cabin and explore other streams in the Snowies. Tying flies in a heated room after being hammered by rain and wind all day was a
Shortly after coming back from New Zealand I got some news that Australian Salmon have moved into the estuaries of the South Coast NSW for they annual winter migration. Decision was made to pack our bags and load car on Thursday, leave as early as possible after work on Friday arvo and drive for 6-7
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
