A Tough 9 days!
The last 10 days or so have been really tough. I’ve had a few blank days. Any day I fished Little Pine Lagoon or penstock in the hope of a big dun hatch it didn’t really happen, and if it did the fish didn’t respond. Some weeks are like that. The lakes are warm and most of the fish in the Western Lakes are not active. A cold and wet snap during the week didn’t seem to change much out there. We had another 25mm of rain in Miena last night and even more out at the Western Lakes so maybe now the fish will move. Hopefully the bad spell is over. Either way I’m heading west for a few days to check out some more of Tassie and fish Lake Burbury and whatever else is over there. I’ll bring the 8 weight too in case there’s any saltfly opportunity.
Hair (Tasmanian Tailers, Tasmanian Western Lakes 1 and 2 and more from the SLTV series) is back in Miena with Bronwyn and their son Oliva. We caught up for a fish on the Pine (Little Pine Lagoon) a few days ago and no doubt we’ll have a few more days on the water together.
Australia Day was a great one! John and Sue had a barbeque and some of us pushed through into the wee hours listening to Frank Zappa. Sorry Sue for keeping you awake!!
That’s about it! Have a good week everyone..
Ronan..
- One of the lake edges at the 19 Lagoons..
- One of Joe Creanes dries. This one accounted for the 5.5lber in my last blog.
- A foot long whip snake..
- My “go to” dry for NZ and Tassie. Great on Lough Corrib too. Inspired by Bob Wyatt.
- The same dry in the surface film.
- Preparation for Burbury. Gota have a beetle!
- Kerzy, one of Miena’s best fly fishermen, in full Australia Day regalia!
- Don and Red Bob..
- Must have lamb on Australia day!
- The lads…
- Australia Day crew..
- All the lads!! Kerzy had to go..
- About to take on a few lakes!
- Mostly dirt tracks up here.. hence the dust!
- One on my dry dry from a few pics ago!
- These cans have been out of production for years but it amazes me how many I see thrown in the Western Lakes in perfect condition. Still litter though!
- Rapidly drying up. Last nights rain was a blessing.
- Platipus
- A dun from the Pine.
- Plenty duns but very few fish taking them!
- This one took a Dabbler. Wets work well at times over here.
- Lake Agusta.
- Little Pine Lagoon is the busiest lake I know of for its size. About 80 anglers out this day yet the lake holds a huge stock of trout. Many believe changing the limit from 12 to 5 per day was a very bad idea.
- Huntsman spider..
- The best fish from a bad week!
- I fished on til dark but nothing happened…
- Panorama of one of the 19 Lagoons..