Good mates Phil and Tim from Queenslandd came down for an extended workshop towards the end of March and had a ball.

Here both are sharing a nice pool on one of the river work days, with Phil onto a nice fish while Tim looks on.

We don’t often fish more than one angler on the same stretch at once, but some times it is very pleasant to share the water and the rewards when the situation allows.

Ken loves his river and stream fly fishing, with dappled shade, shallow streams, ‘hoppers on the menu and wild browns he was in his element.

The fly had to be presented just right, under the overhang to the left and bang, fish did not hesitate.

Varum, presenter for a UK-based TV crew in March, first time fly fishing, was to bring home lunch plus provide the camera action on the day.

Think this 5lb rainbow ticked all the boxes, sighted feeding on damsels, presented Blue Damsel to fish, hooked up, into backing twice before brought to hand.

No wonder angler is delighted and guide quietly chuffed.

Thomas and Lenka pose for a happy snap while taking a break from stalking Tassie wild browns during their trip around the state.

Here Harald gets Autumn underway with one of a number taken on the dry in the perfect lie position.

The trout was stationed in the right hand bubble line a metre or so down stream from the rock line, fly was presented within a foot of the bank and Mr Brownie just couldn’t resist checking it out, much to Harald’s delight.

Next on the water was another regular, Simon, with new inductee mate Richard.

This is Richard’s first ever trout on the fly, day one on the still water a very nice rainbow.

The workshop followed up with introductionto dry fly techniques on the streams and rivers with this lovely wild brown great reward for concentration and application.

Simon was also getting into the action as well as this tight line shows.

As well as the US visitors, Mike from Wales, joined us for three days of great fun and fine fishing as these pics show.

A lover of the dry fly he started off on the clear rivers with a bit of overcast and soon had a big grin and weight on the rod.

This was followed not long after by a very strong wild brown picked up on the far bubble line just up stream near the bank.

Next day the cloud disappeared and we hit the still waters with good results again.

This fine rainbow was just one of a number of top fish to hand for the day.

December also saw a number of international visiting anglers for Red Tag, in particular from America.

From enthusiastic rivers and stream lovers to beginners all had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the fly fishing for wild brown trout that our beautiful island has to offer.

One of the river lovers was Mike. top, whose good day out, included releasing this lovely speckled wild brown.

That was soon followed by another fine example of Tasmania’s small stream wild fish. With either small fly nymphing or dry fly this is exciting and rewarding fishing.

Then followed by the beginner/novices group of, from left, Anna & Greg with Bret & Renee.

During the day both casting and catching were accomplished with a great deal of success with Anna getting a lovely wild brown to hand and then Bret soon after with a nice rainbow.

Not to be outdone, Renee nets a beauty and Greg ends the day with more tight lines.

Alec was in the right place at the right time back home when he entered and subsequently won the Tasmanian wild trout guided fishing trip from a promotion in the UK last October.

The trip was taken just before Christmas 2009 and his first two days were on the rivers of Tasmania, stalking for wild browns with the dry. Initially it was on some of our untamed rugged southern waters with day two on lowland meadow streams.

Day one started out with a hook-up almost immediately in the first session on the ‘big’ wild water, top, and progressed on to a small tributary, where over the course of the day, 12 wild browns to hand all on the dry.

This was a top effort for Alec’s first ever outing in Tasmania chasing those elusive ‘ex-pats’ in a variety of feeding and or holding stations he hasn’t encountered very often on the well manicured and maintained rivers back home.

As Alec said, he had to relearn the old (English) fly fishing stalking and ambush techniques long forgotten, e.g. drifting the flood debris, where wild trout lurk in this tough terrain, which was both exciting and rewarding.

Keeping them out of the structures on the lightweight and compact stream gear required gentle hands and quick reflexes.

Next up this feeding trout takes the well presented emerger and Alec is on again.

Day 2 was the more gentle lowland rivers with the mayfly feeders and more recent damsels, somewhat like home, and being a hotter day Alec opted for the comfort of the thigh waders which were fine for the shallow runs and the trout didn’t seem to mind the sunny day either.

All in all a thoroughly successful introduction to Tasmania’s wild trout fishing, where in many places the only things to touch the water are the feeding swallows, dancing mayfly, returning wild browns from frantic leaps after blue damsels and the occasional angler’s fly!