With two days in late November, Gerald had a top day on Currawong Lakes with this quality 4lbs+ rainbow, one of a number of top fish to hand.

Day 2 was a Macquarie River day, tough weather but a couple of good browns to hand and a ‘how big was that one!’ break off part of the day.

That is what introductory fly fishing workshops should be all about.

Peter had been with us once before and was looking to introduce his wife Deborah along with friends Ian and Lisa to the joys of fly fishing in Tasmania.

Day 1 was at Currawong Lakes then onto a river somewhere.

Peter was delighted, above, with both this beautiful wild brown at the Lakes and the outcome of the adventure.

Here Lisa, above, has her first ever trout to hand, while Ian is enjoying his first up success, below.

And finally, Deborah reels in her wild brown on the river.

New flyfisher Gee inspects the result of only her second, yes that’s right, second ‘on water’ cast with a fly (emerger what else?) while regular ‘tagger Simon is delighted with Gee’s start. It was an excellent well-conditioned wild brown trout.

She then then followed up the next day with this sizeable rainbow and a big smile to match.

November was very busy, with many returning anglers.

Roy was one of them and managed to get a particularly good late spring day along with some nice wild browns to hand.

Brothers Lee and Jamie were keen to get their Dad, Roger, into fly fishing.

Being fishers for most of their lives and having tried all sorts before, they thought Dad, Tasmania, trout and fly fishing should be brought together.

A good day for all, with each getting into good wild brown trout, a break off, missed and sighted feeders.

All taken on unweighted nymphs mainly fished to sighted trout.

First up (top) Jamie with this beautiful brownie and Dad in the background.

Next up is birthday Dad, Roger, with an even bigger brown.

Then Lee gives us the ‘thumbs up’ on his success.

April is the last month of rivers and streams wild brown trout fishing in Tasmania and it was a busy one angler-wise and a productive one fish-wise with dry fly patterns still taking fish, along with small bead head nymphs till the last day on May 2.

Early April action

Good weather, tough fish

Bob and Mickey from the US had a good weather, but a tough fish day. Here Bob is rewarded for his efforts with a good wild brown to hand, taken on the grasshopper.

Later, Mickey has success with another one on the dry.

This one was the perfect ambush, sunken log spotted 15-20 feet of the bank, ‘hopper’ presented over the outer side of the submerged trunk and bang! Lovely 1.5lb wild brown did the rest.

First timer gets a good result.

Louise from the Northern Territory had a great first up fly fishing day while on a short visit to Tasmania.

This excellent wild brown from was returned, but then the next one was a good sized rainbow that provided dinner back for the friends she was visiting.

Successful and productive on day one of fly fishing doesn’t get much better than that

Late April action

Good mates have a top short break

One day on the still waters of Currawong Lakes then day two on a wild brown trout river was just what Andy & John were after.

Andy’s reward after a good sighting, 30mins stalking and ‘controlled’ fish action brings this lovely rainbow to the guide’s net. As you can see, tough Autumn evenings in Tassie mid-April!

Next day John has some top action on the streams with this quality wild brown bringing a broad grin.

Trevor’s best ever!

Regular ‘Tagger’ Trevor probably still has his smile on after this magnificent rainbow taken on an unweighted brown nymph weighed in at close to 6lbs.

He triumphantly declared it was his biggest trout ever on the fly.

He’s coming back in a couple of months to look for its Mum and Dad!

Out of the West

Other returning ‘Taggers’ for some last minute wild trout stream action were Andrew & Jen who teamed up with long time local friend Vanessa.

The girls got away early on the success board with first up Vanessa getting this lively little one, above, to hand on a small copper bead-head nymph.

Next is Jen with this hook up on a #14 Humpy drifted down the run after spotting the fish.

Then Andrew gets onto this one with an emerger.

With a group tally of 10 or more to hand, 75% on the dry, not a bad finish on light gear for the end of April in Tasmania.

Peter enjoying the streamcraft session with John looking on.

After that the weather (mainly wind) had a hand in heading up to Currawong for day two where first up John is delighted with this big nymph chasing rainbow (est 5lbs+).

Then Peter is onto a top conditioned fish, again on the unweighted brown nymph.

Wife Di gave Andrew, and son Aaron a great surprise when she secretly arranged a two-day overnight workshop with Red Tag Trout for the boys.

Day one was the stillwater starter and day two the rivers and streams intro session.

First up Andrew, above, sets the pace with this action. which turns out to be a fantastic rainbow touching 6lbs and taking hin into the backing twice! Not bad for a first up fish!

Not to be outdone by Dad, Aaron, below, gets up close and introduces himself to this nice fish.

Then to top off the workshop on day two he is a very happy camper having sighted, stalked and got this river wild brown trout, below, to the net on a very tricky pool outlet that any experienced angler would have been pleased with.

Well done Aaron – a very promising fly fishing future ahead.

This was the second nice fish to hand for his first day on the fly for Joe’s introduction to fly fishing at Currawong Lakes.

Particularly pleasing to Joe as he sighted the feeding rainbow, stalked it, presented the unweighted nymph on target, hooked and landed it. Good one Joe!