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Fly Fishing Art

Fly Fishing Art
A large rainbow trout, hooked in prime condition, has been feeding voraciously to regain weight after winter spawning. With the warm days of October, river levels are higher as more water is released from lake Eildon Pondage. Insect hatches have become prolific and the river is alive with activity as the season hits full swing.

Trout

The days haven’t yet grown cold but a fog often hangs in the valley until lunchtime. As the first sun filters onto the river, an angler embarks on the delicious treat of being first for the day on the long riffle that sweeps around a wide bend near the lodge. Many of the Goulburn’s banks are crowded with willows whose root systems clog the waterways. Problem areas are now tackled by killing then removing offending trees to make way for more environmentally-friendly native species.

A long riffle

In the afterglow of sunset on the final day of the season a fish is netted at the tail end of a low water Goulburn River pool. The river is at its lowest ebb, as if it were going into hibernation for winter, and most of the willows have lost their foliage.

A trout, last light

The last day of the Victorian trout season, Sunday of the Queens Birthday weekend, is clear and sunny but also cold. Winter is settling in and but you’ve gone out because it’s the last chance to fish a stream until next opening day in September. ‘Prospecting’ with a lightly weighted nymph under an emerger, you know nothing’s going to touch the dry because it’s too chilly for insect activity but it will at least help signal a take on the nymph... if only a few of the real things will decide it’s warm enough to head for the surface and hatch. Not a touch though!

Cold prospecting

When warm weather prompts flocks of caddis moths to swirl and dip along the stream depositing their eggs, it’s a signal for even the normally reserved brown trout to shed their inhibitions. Behaviour suddenly ranges from slashing excitedly at the surface to shooting skyward like surface-to-air missiles. For the fly fisher, this is one of the few times that dragging or skipping a dry fly on the water doesn’t send the fish into hiding.

Feeding on caddis

Sitting within earshot of the River’s murmur, it’s tempting to skip breakfast and head for the water. But unless you’re keen enough to go searching for the odd early morning shallows-feeder, there’ll be more action later. With the approach of winter you can slide out of your sleeping bag at a leisurely hour and approach the water once the sun is well up. By this time a mid morning hatch should have started, with the trout devouring insects and small aquatic dwellers as they build condition before spawning.

Fishermens camp

With the onset of hot weather and the profusion of insect hatches, the Goulburn is also flowing at high level for irrigation, making it impossible in many places for bank fishers to cast to mid-stream. Drifting silently downstream on an inflatable raft, no noisy motor is required, only oars for steering as the guide applies his river knowledge to position the fly fisher for ideal presentations.

Fly fishing on the drift

Flycaster

Flycasting

Gamer

Late in the season the best time of day to fly fish is often in the afternoons when the weakened sunlight is at its strongest. The golden aura of dying willow and elm leaves makes the day seem warmer but insect hatches are sporadic and whenever a cloud passes over an immediate chill sets in. On this afternoon however, the trout rose occasionally to tiny emerging mayflies.

Hook-up late in the drift

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Pump Up The Rod

The moment fly fishers anticipate - as the day warms insects are skimming the water and from everywhere you hear the ‘plops’ of rising trout to quicken your pulse. A fish that rose below the riffle a minute ago repeats its performance and you now have to ponder the question that thousands of fly fishers have before you: What is it they’re eating? Maybe the clouds of caddis moths or perhaps the dark, almost unnoticeable, mayfly duns that have started to emerge?

Ready to rise

You find clues to what a trout is eating by watching the way it rises. A gentle sip means its prey, such as an emerging nymph, is still trapped in the water’s meniscus. Alternatively, a pronounced ‘clop’ is made by a mouth closing on the water’s surface – perhaps over a vulnerable new dun drying its wings before first flight. Lastly, and unmistakably, a wild slash or leap betrays a taste for adult insects hovering or dipping on the water surface to lay eggs; caddis moths, mayflies and dragon flies induce this frenzy which then causes a carry-on effect in the fly fisher.

Rise Ring

First sunlight streams through the remnants of fog as a nearly-autumn day rapidly begins to heat up. On the flat paddock where the Rubicon River reaches its junction with the Goulburn, bird life stirs, overshadowed by the screech of cockatoos. In the quiet water, brown trout gently sip at floating drowned insects – leftovers from the previous night’s hot sunset.

Start of a hot day

If you want to fish after the season has closed you must head for still water. In the Thornton area it’s either Lake Eildon or the Goulburn Valley Fly Fishing Centre. If you’ve ever helped net one of the interlinked ponds at the GVFFC you’ll have seen some hefty fish hauled in. On a calm winter afternoon, when the water looks like glass and the air is warmed by a weak sun, midges appear and the trout start sipping them from the surface. Then, it takes mostly luck to place your mosquito-sized fly in a fish’s path.

Stillwater midgeing

In one of the last hot weeks of the trout season, river guide Geoff Hall and his client, Geoff Dumaresq, stalk the flat lower reaches of the narrow Rubicon River. They’re on flat farming country looking for browns rising to the grasshoppers that take flight from the dry paddocks and land accidentally on the water. A stealthy approach is essential because the fish are cautious in the clear water under full sun. But when it’s time to cast, you can slap the fly down roughly, like a real hopper hitting the drink.

Summer hopper fishing

If youre a fly fisher, this is what comes to mind when someone mentions THAT family. The original Adams dry fly dun immitation, followed by its prodigy, the deer hair-bodied Irresistible and parachute-hackle emerger patterns. One of americas genuine first families.

The Adams family

When you wear a garment bearing this image, people will wonder. There may be questions. Hopefully, youll have the answers. Like, The intense weighing up of all the factors that influence a trout, just so I can figure what its eating, gives me such satisfaction that the act of hooking it becomes almost beside the point.

The Creation of fly fishing

After years of showing clients where to catch and release trout on this flat, meandering section of the Rubicon, the river guides have developed a good knowledge of the most productive sections to cast over. When hopper fishing, you don’t have to see fish rising to make a fairly safe bet they’re on the take. But at this overgrown and little-fished corner Geoff Hall wants his guest to see some proof before casting.

Waiting for a rise

Whip finish

Behold the fly (invented by the legendary Lee Wulff) that is attractive to everyone - experienced fly fishermen, novices and laymen alike. And, to cap it off, trout see in the Royal Wulff whatever floating terrestrial they had in mind. Truly an innocently dressed, yet cunning, deceiver. Confuse the uninitiated when you wear it on our fly t-shirt.

Whos afraid

Why Try Working

Lee Wulffs ever-popular Royal Wulff is a more buoyant interpretation of the ancient Royal Coachman. Its the first choice of countless fly fishers who want a lure they can see in rapids and wont sink. Fished alone it is taken by trout for a myriad of drys. Or fastened above a dropper nymph, it makes an effective strike indicator.

Wulff script