Bentleigh; Tuesday & Wednesday July 12 & 13.
Geelong; Thursday July 14
Parramatta; Friday July 15

These usually kick off around 7pm and are always top nights put on by the boys.

Come along and see the latest from the Isle of the Trout plus a great Tassie teaser — a glimpse of the top fly-fishing footage Eddie and Gavin took when down in Tasmania earlier this year with Red Tag on the rivers and Fish Wild up in the lakes.

Here are just two stills from an action-packed video from the Bentleigh Pro-Angler team.

Click here to view the YouTube video.

Gavin & Eddie, from Pro Angler, Bentleigh, had been ‘talking’ about coming over to film and fish in Tasmania for our wild trout, ever since Tourism Tasmania and Red Tag Trout Tours have been presenting our Pro Angler/’Tasmania’ nights for some five years or more.

Well, they finally made it earlier this year along with assistant Stuart, and Wow!

After 60 fish to hand over four days, four different waters and more than 75% return on the dry fly. They can’t stop talking about it! Three days on a wide variety of rivers, and one day at Currawong Lakes, in total probably 120+ fish to the fly, they have video show footage par excellence.

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Day 1 saw some good fish to hand on a #14 brass bead-head nymph. Although we release the vast majority of fish, this one of Ben’s supplied a nice entree that night.

Day 2 belonged to Peter, with the only single day trifecta of the season – one on the wet, one on the nymph and one on the dry.

This is Peter with his hands full on the dry fly take. Result was a beautiful wild brown trout around the 1.5lb mark, an excellent small stream fish.

After heavy downpours on the lowland rivers, visiting German fly fisher Daniel had to go wet!

They wouldn’t look at a dry (not a rise all day), ignored the nymph but took the Woolly Bugger with relish.

Best results in conditions like these were casting out and across into the fast water, then retrieving with plenty of fly action along the face of the backwaters – ‘fishing the face of the D’ as we call those breakouts.

This was one very pleasing result of six or so on the Woolly Bugger for the day.