Tagger

Date: 19 March 2017
Weather: Suny
Crew: Dave

Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Fly: Royal Wolf #12

Gear Used: Orvis Superfine Carbon 3wt 7'6
Catch: 10+ Rainbows
Report: Was a bit frustrated with the low number of fish landed the previous week, so decided to have another go. This time around was much more productive. Have started working the Royal Wolf a bit more, seems to be a great high floating fly in the rougher water. Very visible too.

Had a quick flick at Glenlowren on the way home with no success, need to plan a session with Toon.

 

Report: 7/10

Glenlowren Top Dam

Date: 12 March 2017
Weather: Slightly cloudy and breezy
Crew: Toon, Jax

Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Fly: Worms and rapala jointed

Gear Used: Jax's $15 combo from Anaconda + my sweet little outfit
Catch: 0

Report: Hit the damn with Jax for a good hour. Jax learning to cast his outfit. Getting better at it! Threw heaps of lures out, no fish. Did get one hit, and also saw  a monster trout swim with the lure up to the pier. He was the biggest trout i have ever seen. This damn just has monsters living in it.
Report: 5/10

Tagger

Date: 13 March 2017
Weather: Suny
Crew: Dave, Ross

Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Fly: Royal Stimulator

Gear Used: Sage Approach 4wt 9', Orvis Superfine Carbon 3wt 7'6
Catch: 4 Rainbows

Report: Was a good session, managed to lose as many fish as we landed.
Report: 7/10

Taponga River

Date: 4-5 March 2017
Weather: Suny

Crew: Toon

Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Green celta spinners, tassie devil, rapala jointed

Gear Used: Shimano Stradic Ci4 2500, 1-3kg shimano raider
Catch: 1 Brown
Report: Rivers at this section saw too many big and deep pools. Fished every corner of them but no hits. Moved from the trusty green celta to a pink/purple tassie devil. Those are shit to use. I need to figure it out, they have a weird action, doesnt look natural. Couldnt bend it to improve, was too stiff. Need to work that one out. Ended up trying the rapala jointed just to play around with. Was awesome to cast, nice light weight balsa can hit spots with ease. Retrieve action beautiful. Ended up walking up stream for a small hour, to a running section, then out of the blue got hit by a nice sized brown on the rapala to my surprise. Afterwards saw some small redfin interested in the rapala but they were too small to engulf it. Fun times still. 

Report: 6/10

Hot Box

Date: 5 March 2017
Weather: Suny

Crew: Dave

Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Fly - Parachut hopper #14, Royal Humpy #12, Royal Stimulator #14

Gear Used: Sage Approach 9ft 4wt
Catch: 11 Rainbow 1 Brown
Report: Was a great session, with lots of good healthy fish. After running out of hoppers, the stimulator still proved effective. The one brown was the session highlight - took a tricky cast into a hard-to-get knook. Lost quite a few fish from broken leader, and broken tippet. This has started happening to me too often.

Report: 9/10

Tassie Streams

Date: 23 - 27  February 2017
Weather: Varied
Crew: Dave, Easty
Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Fly: Parachut hopper, parachute adams
Gear Used: Sage Approach 9ft, 4 wt. Orvis Superfine Carbon 7ft6 3 wt, Sage One 9ft 6wt, Stalker 9ft 4wt
Catch: 15 Brown
Report: Was a good trip, didn't bag as many fish as we had hoped for. The hopper session on the Cambden Rivulet was a highlight - sight casting to feeding fish. Pulled an absolute monster out of the same drain as last time too!

Streams hit include:

Mersey - Fished really well

Iris - Pulled the pin after 1hr - was freezing cold

Hellyer - Nice river, managed a few fish

Leven - A little disappointing

North Esk - A little disappointing

St Pats - A little disappointing

Cambden Rivulet - Fantastic!

Managed to lose the GPS, break a rod, and break a tent pole 

Report: 8/10