James Wilkinson, Photographer Extraordinaire!
James Wilkinson is a photographer and film maker. He is also a keen fly-fisherman and likes to photograph the sport when the opportunity arises. His work has appeared in and on the cover of Flylife magazine. James joined me for a day on Dunstan last weekend. He brought the rod along but the camera was given priority. Fishing was slow at best! I worked hard all day swapping back and forth between a Di5 and a clear intermediate. There were quite a few small fish about but I only landed one fish worth a mention. It was a thoroughly enjoyable, invigorating day on the water. The cold wind never stopped blowing but we were clothed adequately. We’ll get out again once I find the winter rainbows.
All of the photo’s in this weeks blog are from James. Thanks mate!
Ronan..
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- Setting up..
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- Putting in for a day afloat..
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- I love this shot!
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- With the strong wind and no drogue, I looked for feature water with some depth and then stay put for a while..
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- They only half decent fish of the day..
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- Manoeuvring..
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- Good grip for the anchor!
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- I had a lot of these..
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- ..and some of these!!
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- Woolley bugger on a 7wt Di5 fished on a 9′ 8wt TCX
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- I also had the clear intermediate on the TCX 7wt rigged up for the shallower water..
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- It was an invigorating day on the lake..
This week from SLTV, number 11 in the series.. “Lost” In this episode Paul gets us totally lost in the Tasmanian Western Lakes by insisting that his shortcut would save time… We also learned to bring a proper map and compass next time!! This is worth a watch…
Brrr… looks cold! Waders and jackets, yeah think I’ll stick to summer fishing 🙂
Western Australia made you soft!! Your a Scot dammit, Scott!