Nine Foot Central

Camping with the kids

2011-01-18T22:01:00.000+11:00

After not getting up the mountains for ages I finally took the eldest up the mountains camping, picked up a few small ones, lots of caddis feeders, best fish came last on a postless para adams while it was chasing caddis.

Rain, rain and distractions

2008-06-10T17:38:00.001+10:00

No fishing for a while, 92.4mm in the past 9 days at Syd Airport. Also have the distracitons of moving house coming up and a new project

It's a good day

2008-06-02T10:53:00.000+10:00

When the postie is this kind

Millbrook '08

2008-04-27T09:49:00.003+10:00

Another year come and gone for the Forum trip to Millbrook, I finished up with 3 for the weekend, one each day. 2 bigger ones came from Cabin and a fiesty 2.5lb rainbow came from Harbours.

First Brown from Cabin on a PT nymph

Rainbow on a Stickie during a phenomenonal caddis hatch

Phil capturing Greg's fish

Jim hooked up on the final day

The Custom labelled brew from Brewtopia

The BFTs for the fly swap

Surf Candies

2008-03-12T22:24:00.000+11:00

They're getting better at least, I'm getting the hang of working with the epoxy better.

Surf candies

2008-02-24T20:43:00.000+11:00

First go at trying epoxy body flies, trickier than it seems to get it to look "right" but they should catch fish anyway.

Frigate Flies

2008-02-23T21:28:00.000+11:00

Small Tailor

2008-02-16T13:51:00.003+11:00

Only small tailor today but they still hurt when they bite. Was just after high tide, caught 20-30 tailor up to 10", most about 8". Frigates were a no show.

Camera work is dodgey but you get the idea

Frigates are back

2008-02-02T09:31:00.001+11:00

Daybreak and high tides, the frigates are back, caught 2, dropped 1 good 'un and had several follows and bumps.

Also had a couple of baby tailor take the fly as well.

From the Family Holiday

2008-01-08T21:41:00.000+11:00

3 out of the 4 river browns caught on the family holiday

Couple of fishing snaps...

2008-01-07T16:13:00.000+11:00

From the recent family holiday

The reel for the Big D

2007-11-27T16:39:00.000+11:00

I've finally found where it had been packed from the move, just the right size for the reel, next will be to cut down an old line so it's operable.

First whiting on fly

2007-08-26T17:52:00.000+10:00

Muz Wilson white & pink hammerhead retrieved quickly.

Gunnamatta

2007-08-24T17:12:00.000+10:00

Pretty quiet apart from a couple of squid taking a liking to the flies.

Pick-up Sticks

2007-08-07T10:38:00.001+10:00

Gotta love new tackle.

Lamiglas 6pc 3wt FL 783-6, packs down tiny compared to a 4pc rod.

Tumut Trip ...

2007-06-04T18:48:00.000+10:00

...with some of the forum guys ( Chief, Warnsy, Duckbill, Coarsefisher and Swaddo)

~200 ML/day~9000 ML/day

Fishing With Blake & Ez

2007-05-29T21:06:00.000+10:00

And back home again

2007-05-12T18:25:00.000+10:00

Millbrook 2007

2007-05-10T20:50:00.000+10:00

The first of the Flylife Forum Millbrook weekends for 2007

The New Reel is here!!!

2007-05-02T16:53:00.000+10:00

One happy camper....

Fussy Frigates

2007-04-03T20:41:00.000+10:00

Fatso's Den

2007-03-26T22:01:00.000+10:00

The rain and the move has meant not much fishing but the new fly tying area is looking better

Stripping Basket

2007-03-08T20:41:00.000+11:00

Add one kids footstool, one belt and half a dozen silicon nozzles and...

Land Based Tuna!!!

2007-02-20T18:02:00.000+11:00

Awesome....

Yass Carping... The video

2007-01-26T06:54:00.000+11:00

Footage put to a little MGF

Also added the new forum link to the sidebar.

Yass Carping

2007-01-07T19:56:00.000+11:00

Sharing the moment

2007-01-01T10:28:00.000+11:00

One I took over christmas that I've been tweaking.

Happy New Years!!

2007-01-01T06:30:00.000+11:00

Bright and early into the new year.

Casting outtake

2006-12-31T11:38:00.000+11:00

A good camera operator is hard to find.

Christmas Fishing

2006-12-27T18:37:00.000+11:00

Low tide on the flats

2006-12-17T14:24:00.000+11:00

Morning session at the Port

2006-12-09T15:32:00.000+11:00

MiniD'berg?

2006-11-14T21:38:00.000+11:00

Another Mid-week Session

2006-11-07T17:48:00.000+11:00

Mid Week Mullet

2006-11-01T20:10:00.000+11:00

Mid-week session

2006-10-17T18:03:00.000+10:00

Break from Skiing

2006-09-11T20:53:00.000+10:00

We took a break from skiing on the Tuesday that we were at falls to investigate a fish we could see from the chairlift, here he is...

Blake and I ended with one each.

Mullet

2006-08-29T18:02:00.000+10:00

Finally a mullet on bread fly, nice session at least 6 mullet plus a bream, looked like some big bream underneath too. Probably more 4-wt territory than 6-wt

Old Pics

2006-08-06T15:54:00.000+10:00

We found a bunch of old photos from around when we started fly fishing.

Casting lessons with Bryan Pratt

Tying with Blake, obviously it was summer.

End of a hot day's fishing, Blake acting the galah

Ah, the old Blackridge.

Blakes first carp on fly.

Tying Some Bread Flies

2006-08-02T20:10:00.000+10:00

SWMBO-jnr asked to tie up some flies. She liked getting to fuzzle it a bit at the end.

On the way home from work...

2006-08-01T17:46:00.000+10:00

Had a couple of hours at my leisure and was rewarded, by Big Trev here...

Just Another Day

2006-07-25T20:59:00.000+10:00

Another afternoon on the bread flies, 2 Luderick, 2 Bream, another herring and my first Yellowtail (yakka)

Squidly

2006-07-09T18:17:00.000+10:00

Not so flash today, got another bream and managed to get a new species a Round Herring (or Maray) when a big shoal busted up in front of me. Had a school of mullet around until this squid grabbed one and spooked them.

Bread Flies again

2006-07-08T17:30:00.000+10:00

Out trying the latest generation of bread flies, got a few fish in the burley trail. This time I was feeling takes as well as seeing them so I assume the fish are taking them with much more confidence. Score for the day was one Luderick and one Bream. I think the bream took the fly earlier and the hook pulled, I thought it might have been a trevally initially by the size and shape. I think these flies are the goods, need to get some more white egg yarn.

For the pattern, see: Here

I'm tying on size 14 - 10 hooks rather than big buggers.

Here is one of the Luderick Blake caught last week using the previous White Spirit River dubbing version of the bread fly.

On Fly Species list to date: Dusky flathead, Small-toothed Flounder, Yellowfin Bream, Toadfish, Silver Trevally, Luderick, Tailor (only a tiny one), Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Carp & Redfin

Sydney Fishing Show

2006-06-23T16:54:00.000+10:00

Went out to the Sydney Fishing Show today had the cast analysed on the Sage Casting Analyser. Need to improve the stop in the back cast.

Good and Bad

2006-06-12T20:34:00.000+10:00

Good news, added another species to the list. A good sized blackfish on a bread fly (white spirit river dubbing on a #12 caddis hook).

Bad news, this is the photo I took of it, I think my camera might have issues.

FlyLife Forum trip to Millbrook

2006-05-28T10:15:00.000+10:00

On the second FlyLife Forum Millbrook weekend, finished up with 4 rainbows, 3.5 lb from Blue Gum, a 2.5 lb and one just over 4 lb from Yulong and a 5.5 lb from Macpherson's. The group ended up with 58 for the weekend with the biggest being 7 lb from the session on Macpherson's (where we saw and Courty missed a monster double figure trophy feeding). Mine all came from big wets Yeti, Mardi Gras and Assassin.)

Blakes first 5 lb from Blue Gum on Friday

Duckbill's skinny 3 lb from Blue Gum on Friday

My 3.5 lb from Blue Gum on Friday

The 4 lber from Yulong

The Macpherson's 5.5 lber

Trevally

2006-05-13T18:06:00.000+10:00

Bread fly: Natural Sears Fur on a Partridge YK4A

In bread burley, sunk about 6' down, I ended up with 4 in total around 12" long or so, the photos don't really do them justice, top fun, pulled like real bastards.

Brings the Saltwater Species Tally to 5: Dusky flathead, (small-toothed?) Flounder, Yellowfin Bream, Toadfish (don't ask) & Silver Trevally

Mountain Men

2006-03-22T20:45:00.000+11:00

Hiked into the spot featured in FL#19 Mountain Men article with a few of the guys from the Flylife Forum, nice twig water with a couple of bigger fish mixed in.

Close to home

2006-03-05T21:03:00.000+11:00

Some fun closer to home, bottom of the flood tide.

ACTFF Feb Trip

2006-02-28T20:53:00.000+11:00

Back up to the G for the ACTFF trip, had a great time. Somewhere between 80 and 100 fish for the weekend between 6 anglers, including 2 for Jeremy, his first fish on fly, that he saved until his last session to get.

Long live the Puffing Billy

Like an old friend

2006-02-12T20:06:00.000+11:00

Got to go and debut the new cane rod on a special little river, the first one I caught a trout in, it was a little like visiting an old friend. We also tried a spot that we hadn't been to before as well.

Totalled 16 for the day, about 11 on one fly (a Muz Wilson Wee Creek Hopper) and the rest on a red Stimulator. Blake managed about 13 or so, we both totalled around 30 for the day. They ranged from 4" to 13", the most satisfying coming from a sipper under a gorse bush, the biggest coming from a pool near the car near dark.

The G.

The rod loads nice...

Pulled a couple from this spot.

The lucky debutante, the first for the new rod

The biggest for the day, 13" late in the day, gave the rod a good work out, the best I've seen come from the river so far...

Getting his breath back after the release.

On the drive...

2006-02-12T19:07:00.000+11:00

A couple of photos from the drive down to debut the cane rod. The little fella in the bottom couple of shots is playing around about 100 yards from the Hume Hwy.

2006-01-15T21:54:00.000+11:00

Today has been varnish day, 4 coats so far, it's starting to look good. Now I just have to starting thinking about getting the line so I can go fishing soon.

Table Study

2006-01-14T12:12:00.000+11:00

Just uploaded a few photos from the camera and found these one's taken by my 5 y.o. daughter, I like the study of the mess that really surrounds the rod building

The Christmas Cane Rod

2006-01-13T15:39:00.000+11:00

Heres some pictures of the progress of the cane rod I got present with for Christmas from my wife and family

The Blank is a Nick Taransky built 6' 2/3 weight out of a single piece of cane. The reel seat is turned brown mallee and an agate stripping guide.