A few weekends ago me and Nick spent an afternoon fishing a clear, low, pocket water creek. The Low gin clear water made the fish incredibly spooky. Spotting fish was pretty much impossible given the boulders and rocks that dotted the stream bed. It would be very easy to fish that little creek for an afternoon and not see any…
Month: March 2014
The Southern Australia mixed dozen challenge
Spoilt for choice How many amazing fishing options do you have within 2 or 3 hours drive from your front doorstep? Can you count them? Could you fish them all in a weekend? With the exception of Dan in the top end, the rest of us at Flick and Fly call south east Australia home. From here we can fish…
Fishing on the Tooma huts walk – Jagungal wilderness (Kosciuszko NP)
A month or so ago a good friend of mine started talking about a walk into the wild. ‘How far is it?’, I inquired. ‘Only 45ks…you’ll survive’, was her response. I’ve only done a few overnight walks in the past, and a three night hike with two full days of walking was inevitably going to test the mind and body.…
Rod review: “The f%#$@ed up”
The “F’ed” up was the first blank I attempted to make when me and Lee started the poor mans quad project. After making a myriad of mistakes, it sat on the top of my bookshelf while I made a little Banty for practice and then got distracted and never actually completed a proper rod. Recently, I decided I may as…