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A day on the Hampshire Test
Stockbridge in Hampshire is one of those towns which really comes alive during the flyfishing season, with mayfly hatches bringing fishing tourism to its peak during May. The town is well located with the famous River Test running through it and various gastro-pubs and hotels servicing the generally well-to-do clientele chasing the Test browns. In the heart of […]
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Christmas in August
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) is a wondrous place with its bleak, impossibly flat and dry landscape, juxtaposed with it’s amazing blue and gold-hued seascape. It’s lagoon and perimeter reef provide impressive vistas and consistent top-notch fishing. Eight of us headed off to Christmas Island just 12 days ago. One came back early and despite our travel sagas […]
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In the Footsteps of Frank Sawyer
Below me, the ghostly grey shape hovered over the gravel in the rain-stained chalk stream, occasionally darting left or right, intercepting invisible nymphs. I glanced at Keith and he gave me the nod. I tapped my rod and the non-descript nymph dropped off the penultimate rod ring. I breathed slowly, trying to calm my nerves. […]
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A day on the River Test
When I first learned I was invited to a business conference in Germany in June this year, my initial thought was, ‘Great, I’ll extend my trip by a couple of days and shoot over to the UK and see my family (who live in Hampshire).’ My next thought was, ‘Hampshire? I could fish the River Test!’ The idea […]
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WA Herring
Andrew and I did our fisheries degrees together in Plymouth (in the eighties) and both ended up as fisheries bureacrats in Australia. Me in NSW and Victoria; Andrew in the NT, NSW and WA. We both cut our teeth on small trout streams in the UK, and each year I fish with Andrew in the […]
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What the…………. right on Chew
Whilst everyone at home is queuing up to fish their favourite ‘big brown’ pool on the Eucumbene and Thredbo rivers, I’m doing it tough in the Old Dart waking up in a cold sweat thinking about the top of the lake writhing with golden browns. For this trip to the UK we’ve had some magnificent […]
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Hervey Bay Tuna
A couple of weeks ago a mate George and I started discussing a fishing trip to Hervey Bay, with the idea of camping on the island and polaroiding flats all weekend. The initial plan to take the ferry over and hike up to the flats along the beach was knocked on the head when we realised it […]
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Autumn on Tassie Rivers – Fly Fish Australia Fundraiser
Last week I had the privilege of attending one of the Fly Fishing Australia (FFA) corporate weekends in Tasmania, staying at Peter Hayes’ place and fishing the rivers. The weekends are a fundraiser for the FFA team members to help cover their costs when competing in the forthcoming world championships in the USA in August. For us amateurs, it gives […]
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Gum beetles, Great Lake and Highland mysteries
I don’t know what it is about the Tasmanian highlands and its lakes. There are places where I catch more trout more easily (including Tassie’s lowland rivers) and there are places like New Zealand where I catch trout that are, on average, bigger. And while the highlands are beautiful in a wild, harsh sort of […]
