jimmy72

the tweed course should be easy there is a walk way along the river right next to the course, no need to jump a fence -- i'll send you a map via pm with exactly where i saw loads of bream, its very close to the edge of the course ... around dusk you'd probably have little threat of golf balls hitting you or getting chased off. i think all ponds would be connected via pipes so if there is fish in some there'd be fish in all. i guess i saw so many the bream in one cause it was only a few feet with only one spot where you couldn't see the bottom

the bream were in the tweed course, the tell tale bubbles of tarpon in one of the others ( we drinking most days so its all a bit hazy, but tweed was the first day straight off the plane) amazed how many bream is such small shallow water, and the little prawns in there, it was very interesting. think there were big real big carp in the water on the 2nd or third hole at the glades

na played south port the glades, lakelands and tweed - some decent bream in some of the lakes on the courses and what i think were decent sized tarpon, also saw plenty prawns in one place with bream schooling them up ;-)

awesome work mate, i was up your way 2 weeks back on a golf trip and stinging for fish, i hadnt see this post bugger or i would have employed your guiding services !

Let's do an early one next week what day can you do

went out for an early yesterday looking for surface fish on fly, nothing much happening except a few sporadic boils from frigates who wouldn't let a us get close, we searched far and wide, and only found seagulls sitting on the surface looking bored waiting for something to happen , just like us. We decided to head home and so i could get to work , and then we thought we'd check a marker or two, and low and behold we found them. we lost maybe 6 to the marker or bottom and landed a 3 or 4 just under and over legal before i released that time does fly when you are having fun !.... oh what fun kings on fly are , even when they brick you !!! got to work late but the boss was ok when he saw the photos of the mornings adventure 9wt rod intermediate line (had to cast in the right spot , due to drift and tide and wait a while to get down in the eating zone though - a fast sink would have been better, quicker, but i was too lazy to change lol 15lb and then 20lb tippets (still no match for encrusted markers and rocks) flies clousers (which i normally don't like but was easier than changing line , i usually prefer to fish neutral buoyancy flies and change the line from float to fast sink to suit.) Fly colours, tan over white (you can see some bucktail stuck in the fishes teeth lol) , chartreuse over white , oh and a spinster fly green over white which a fish now has as lip jewellery moral to the story, just cause you cant see em doesn't mean they are not there and hungry ;-)

the kings would have loved that pike !

lake wallerawang has redfin -- up past lithgow

not unbelievable size ive had 3kg salmon eaten like tick tacks at my feet there... landing it is another thing though ??/

good stuff

PS thanks for the credit nick , i didnt really "invent" it... more so i used, (or is it stole lol) a couple other peoples ideas and put them in one fly white or grey BMS flies work really well on the salmon too, most fly shops stock them PPS are the salmon still around im just back form a months holiday so not sure what's going on at nth head?

That's a great grayling well done - I'm in slovenia now on holidays and caught some nice ones on fly but under 40cms I think ! Very pretty fish ! Grant

great stuff, i was going to head down there last weekend, but chose to fish north head for sambos instead.. bugger i should have made the effort - magic place - thanks for posting

nice one nick! that on the crosscurrent and torrent? if so how was the drag going after the decent fish, should had plenty more grunt? bummer about this mornings weather though! did you tie the candy ? see ya when i get back from Europe

its been months since i got the boat wet (shame), but i finally went out for a quick run Saturday morning. A bit of a sleep in with the plan to fish the run out at the heads for sambos. We were not disappointed the sambos were working hard but very fussy, scored a few on fly after i changed from a med sized surf candy to a 3ms eyes fly,my mate fishing a small SP hooked up three times; busted off once (didn't set his drag lol) and pulled the hook on two more one was def. foul hooked ( scale on the hook), and the other opened the hook, but suspect it was foul hooked as well In the end i stopped fishing and drove the boat as best i could to get my mate in the perfect spot to get a hook up, he must have put 50 casts with the SP through the right places & retrieving in the right direction for nothing. for the last 15 minutes we even tried an eyes fly 1m behind a sinker and still couldn't score, but he wasn't the only one , the other fly fishers out there got a few but the guys casting hard bodies and chucking pillies didn't seem to get anything (that i saw) mate now tells me he will be practicing his fly casting for the next few weeks and be leaving the spin gear at home ... i told him to practice casting standing on a basket ball as that's pretty much whats its like with the back wash off the rocks fun morning and home in time for lunch with a grin on my face - if your looking for some fun and singing drags get out there cheers grant

cheers bob, sounds tasty cheers dave, never thought of wholemeal, good for the insides as well (now i'm 42 i need to think about that sort of stuff ) i'll be giving that a go! thanks grant

found this out lately with some obsessive googling and testing on some fillets of spanish mac. if you like a crispier final product when doing the simple dipping in egg and dusting with flour to fry. try mixing rice flour with plain flour; a bit less than 50/50 rice flour, maybe 40 rice flour /60 plain, or 30/70 depending on fillet thickness. the rice flour breathes and crispens better / faster (lets air and oil around it / through it) where normal flour doesn't (normal flour its kind of seals itself). its will crispen much faster/ better when fried and save you over cooking and stewing the fish - double bonus ! dont over cook though it can get too crisp, so thicker fillets = less rice flour. the above 40/60 works with fillets of about 2cms, so any thicker reduce the rice flour amount. i usually add loads of salt and pepper into the flour mix too, and maybe a little lemon pepper or chilli for variety bon appetit cheers grant

can be a risky area full stop, stay on the rivers and main tracks cant really call police or an ambulance down there, but on the other hand its a beautiful part of the world, its a tough walk but can be rewarding

it will be time soon for some long walks to get some legal river trout. i almost went this weekend agreed it seems strange to protect a non native but i guess it's all about the $$ i.e the closed season is to protect the investment in stocking the trout and additionally fishing streams for trout usually means walking in the shallow parts of the river and walking there will assist to kill the eggs and reduce what natural recruitment there is... the ability to target bass and have a catch and release policy doesn't seem right to me though

you want to go down wombeyan caves road and fish downstream of goodmans ford, but as 'l-a' said you need a bit of fresh to get them to move out the dam and up into the river. but i was under the advice it needed to be 0.6 steady or falling and anything more was a bit dirty and hard to fish... i could be wrong though. its up around 0.47 - 0.48 for last 4 days, so need a little downpour, a dark/ no moon and cold weather help too i think. nice part of the world down there especially when the rainbows are running hard, but its been a while since i cracked it, but thats cause i dont get out as much these days - good luck keep us posted on your adventures grant

there are a few fishing moving around up the back of lyell at present, bit of algae bloom there too, but they shouldn't matter fish the deep holes during the day and closer to where the river runs in at first or last light feisty little fish (20cm) in the small dam below TDC, eating dry flies a couple of weekends back, TDc is how you find it , perfect one day -- ghost town the next ! cheers gm

no idea about fitzroy, ive never done well there , so haven't been there is 15 years BUT after this rain might be worth a shot down the 'dilly ?

beast !

yep that was me it was a little bit too late in the season for the whiting on poppers i think, but you gotta have a go hey? i'll be having a cast for them when it wars up a bit, thats if the king fish are not on, were you living there couple of years back they were along our shore on tiny slimies for a week or two... bad photo but cool mini slimies pushed right up against the wall, large school from your place to the sailing club hectic hooking them in such shallow water in the moorings, landing them another thing all together ps been fly fishing for over 15 years, i'm never going to master it, always learning - but the fish don't know that ;-) sydfisher12 thats a decent sized fish indeed, think i have only seen one bigger in the flesh, hope i can pin a couple without leaving the back yard, decent whiting might end up straight onto our BBQ... if i remember some coins.. its a coin operated BBQ in the back yard would you believe lol

is there much kelp near the beach there? out the front of my place .. which is past the beach and next door to the first jetty south of it.. there is load of kelp.. keep stealing my flies , so i pretty much just practice my casting rather than fish, though i had a couple of decent bream follow and bump my fly as it came into view. im hoping some whiting on poppers this summer down there, seen a few lonstres following my fly too but not eating it *$#*&*!!