All of us have ‘our’ streams; the ones that we fish most often, we cherish, we hide from acquaintances, but we share with friends. After reading this post by Hamish, I was keen to get back out to my favourite stream to see if I could emulate at least half the success he and Perrin had on that evidently magic…
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Trout fishing on the Monaro
Fishing can sometimes bestow insights beyond that which you might expect and experience in day-to-day life. Whether it’s squatting on a pier in South Australia, talking to an 80 year old Chinese man fishing for squid, trading secrets with the local 15 year-old bream-gun or asking a bunch of buffed-up, coke-fuelled criminals ‘whatdyagetemon?’, it truly is a diverse and universal…
Poor man’s quad project… Part 2.
Part one– We decide to build ourselves bamboo rods Lee picks up some cane and gets some much needed advice from an expert After Hamish’s infectious enthusiasm to build a PMQ got the better of me, the first thing we needed was cane. I googled tonkin cane, full of expectations of cheap bundles being sent directly to my door. I…
Garfish gurgler
I am not much of a fly tier. I haven’t been tying my own flies for all that long, so thats not a surprise. I’m slowly improving and I can at least catch fish on flies I’ve tied myself which is enormously gratifying. While they aren’t yet pieces of art, maybe one day I’ll get there… However, in the spirit…