The plan was to chase kingfish, however once we were out of bed it became immediately obvious we wouldn’t be heading out to sea as the wind was howling, whitecaps peppering twofold bay. Time for plan B(ass), which we developed over coffee and google maps. After toying with the idea of an epic 15km car drop in order to fish…
Tag: freshwater fishing
Like shooting fish in a barrel
A couple of weeks ago photos of Brook trout caught in Victoria started popping up all over FB and instagram. Apparently a bunch of brook trout had escaped from a trout farm and people were jumping at the rare opportunity to catch these fish within a couple of hours from Melbourne. This weekend I decided to join the fray. I…
Quick Monaro flyfishing report
I managed to spend a few hours at one of my favourite trout streams last weekend. I arrived at around 11am and the first thing I noticed was the lack of insect life, apart from the ever-present blowflies. The plan was to christen my Poor Man’s Quad with a nice brownie. I would have loved to tie on a nice…