Recently, I was browsing through a little alternative bookstore in Canberra and a book caught my eye. Titled ‘Shadowing the Ghost of the Estuary: My quest to catch mulloway on lures and how they have messed with my head’, I just had to have it (an upcoming blog will have a full book review). The title encapsulates the enigma of this…
Month: July 2012
Fly tying for beginners
I seem to have a habit of forming hobbies quickly and with gusto. For example, I recently decided I wanted to make a coffee table, so acquired some beautiful ironbark and an electric plane and off I went. A fleeting passion? Perhaps (coffee table aint finished). But more recently, after spending some time with fellow blogger and new flyfishing convert…
A little story: fishing from wharves
I’ve been away on a field trip for work for a couple of weeks, so haven’t been doing much fishing. In any case on the way back home, drving from Ballina to Canberra we had a night long pit stop at Port Macquarie. After arriving I went for a little walk along the waterfront a couple of hours before dusk.…
Winter at Wallaga Lake, July 2012 fishing report
It’s nice when a plan comes together. But for some reason, I was umming and aaghing about heading down the coast this weekend. Luckily, at the last minute, I decided it was probably better than sitting around in chilly Canberra and jumped in the car with keen fisho, Andy O’Brien, to hit up Wallaga Lake for the weekend. On arriving,…