09/02/2019

Old buddy in town – bit of beach time, bit of fishing

My old mate Dal (Dalius) was in town visiting for a week. So we had a plan to do a trip somewhere outside of the city. Because it being a peak of the summer and the temperatures scorching way into 40s we thought it’s better to spend some time camping somewhere on the coast rather than going read more

13/11/2018

Simon Gawesworth – Sydney demo

Had a pleasure to meet and get some tips and advices from one of the biggest legends in fly casting world – Simon Gawesworth. Simon is mostly known for being a Sage, Redington and Rio ambassador. Flyshops all over the world are full of his books and DVDs, Youtube is loaded with his casting read more

13/01/2018

Bassin’ around Sydney

Another post about me trying out my packraft and continuing paddling rivers around Sydney. So far been pretty happy with this little thing, it takes me to places that probably never seen people before. Now just matter of getting out of Sydney and maybe trying to find some bigger specimens, which means read more

17/03/2009

Late Summer afternoon

Another summer afternoon in a city, and I decided to head to a local park for a quick flick. Few casts away and I was onto a fish. A nice little flathead decided to go for a chartreuse colour clouser. Seems like this fly is one of the better fly patterns if you ever decided to chase flathead. So I read more

30/01/2009

Sydney Harbour

Had a most amazing day on the harbour chasing kingfish on fly. It was a completely different kind of flyfishing experience, something I’ve never done before. Stripping using both hands, setting a hook without lifting a rod but rather pulling a flyline towards your body. Crazy numbers of fish, read more

19/01/2009

Urban Carp

Just a quick afternoon workout session on a local Parramatta river chasing urban carp. Pretty good fun sight casting at them and then seeing them eat the fly. Found a few fish tailing in a shallow water but wasn’t 100% sure that they’ll be willing to take a fly. Soon I found that black read more