Red Tag Trout Tours

Colin, known since my advertising days 30+ years ago had a top rivers outing

From the start, on the emerger, Colin was into it and the trout ‘were on’
High fives the order of the day

Angler and guide on the stalk …

Yes! Presentation … right fly … right place … right timing. Fish to hand, fish dropped and those quick ones missed … around 25 + to the fly!

Robert and son Jack had a red letter time on the river a few days ago. With something like 40+ fish to the fly between them. Cherry-ripe supply was under great threat. Jack ended up on top ‘fish to net’ count with 12, dad netted 7.

Ray netting No 3 for Robert.
Jack unto No 2
They weren’t all big fish, but on light gear, great fun.

A good one heads downstream as Ray moves in to assist.

This was a really nice example of wild brown to hand (by Robert)… in the meantime, while photographing this, Jack got the jump on dad with three more!

…this was one of them.
By the way this was TOP ‘hopper action, the trout have waited weeks for it to start on our lowland waters … and my goodness it has! The best river day this season by far.

Family fly fishing day on the Macquarie, from left – Adrian, Roger, Danny and Michael. Danny intro day with Michael and Adrian adding experience.

Top river wild brown on the dry – mayfly emerger did the trick.

An even better one a little later on the adult ‘spinner’ mayfly pattern – with Adrian looking on

We did a special day with John, a regular Tagger, and Ray exploring new waters for light new gear. Here Ray is onto a lively wild brown on the #2wt.

John opted for his small #3wt and wasn’t out of the action all day.

John exploring some lovely runs and ripples.

Ray was laughing when returning this one, but John was fittingly top rod on the day.
It was a great day on light tackle and well worth another look.

Andrew had a top day on the dries after a windy start at Herne. This was one of 10 to the fly and five to hand

Another lovely wild brown in the net … fish were working along the sheltered edge supping on the emerging mayflies

A solid hook up, again just on the edge of the calm water and the ripple.

Dr Yoshi finally able to get back to Tasmania (from Japan) and on the dry fly again. Here he is admiring a nice river wild brown taken on the Blue Damsel.

Another top nick brown this time, again sighted and took the unweighted dark brown nymph just under the emerger.

Yoshi and Ray share a well executed plan to bring this one to hand, A lovely fish tucked under the bank.

A nifty piece of work by both angler and guide, and another cherry ripe is accounted for. Dr Yoshi enjoyed christening his new #2/3wt and #4wt rods on the trip.