Wally from Queensland had a great dry fly day recently (late Sept 06) where he started off by taking the famous Tasmania ‘tailing trout’ concept to the extreme, ie, first good take of the day on the dry … was a little late on the ‘lift’ and hooked up to a very surprised wild brown in the tail fin!

Hence the decent bend in the rod.

As the day went on the hookups got back to the more traditional end.

About an hour before sundown Wally said “be great to see a platypus in the wild and get one more nice stream fish for the day”.

As if on cue, up comes our platypus friend, not once but about five times, to check us out and give us the nod that at top of the pool there’s a nice 1.5lb brownie just waiting for a dry … sure enough, out goes the Humpy, down goes the fly and here is the result.