No just Adrian (left) and Rob (right) working a quiet corner.

After an introductory tour in September, the boys came back in late Summer to try their hand at ‘hopper time. As you can see they had their fair share of tight lines with some very nice wild browns to hand.

Above: Rob knows the fish is there somewhere and finally gets it to hand.

Meantime Adrian is demonstrating some fine high stick control on a couple of his own first up and then this lively one below.

Finally, sharing the water Rob? I thought that one rose on my side of the bend!

The February top fly fishing continued with Graham’s extended trip and I think he enjoyed the heritage setting of Somercotes almost as much as his tradition of using his Tasmanian friend, Peter McKean’s, beautifully handmade cane rod to bring a very good number of local wild trout to hand.

On day 1 he was into action, above, picking up a shadowy lurking brown sighted surface feeding under the overhanging bush.

To highlight Graham’s love of the traditional, in this shot, above, you can see his Bakelite (circa 1930s) single action fly reel and dressed (imitation) silk line.

The result of this action was this great conditioned typical Tasmanian wild brown, Graham does not have small hands and this one would have been 17″+.

Finally these balanced cane rods have a beautiful bend on them when handling our wild trout, this shot shows the complete arch from the very butt.

Here’s another page from the Curtis Creek Manifesto, and the advice is spot on.

First up the key word here is presentation.

Without acquiring good presentation, you might as well go home!! Or sit down and admire the fish swimming about.

[See previous entry here]