During his recent visit to Tasmania, Billy Connolly took a few days out to get acquainted with some of our wild brown trout.
This he did with a high degree of skill and great enthusiasm which resulted in a very successful and rewarding trip over two days at Currawong Lakes and a third day on a ‘river somewhere’. All fish were taken on the dry and the vast majority sighted feeding fish.
His double-take came on day 2 at Currawong Lakes when Billy hooked the same fish twice on the same day, but bringing it to hand the second time.
Thats Billy holding that wild brown in hand, above, and note the pink emerger in lower lip, which was the first fly actually bitten off when hooked, it still had 2cm of tippet attached.
In all our combined years of fly fishing, including those guiding, this had not happened to either of us. So another first for the records.
Meanwhile, gentle hands bring another river brown to net.
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