tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44754038520105085902024-02-20T16:51:16.872+09:30NT Fly Fishers Roger Bassetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11082817889458672569noreply@blogger.comBlogger532125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-13496340188374266842018-10-10T12:17:00.004+09:302018-10-13T17:26:45.568+09:30CATHERINE IN KATHERINEWe have always loved going to degustation dinners with matching wine added, truth is we love any dinner and wine, but the specially organised ones can really open your eyes to a whole new adventure, like a new fly fishing ground.<br />
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For that reason when I saw an advert for a special degustation weekend with specially picked wines at the Nitmiluk (Cicada) Lodge in Katherine (aptly titled <b><i>"Journey of the Palate" - The Spirited Traveller</i></b>) I just had to go. <i>What an absoutley marvelous adventure it was too</i>, best ever. Magnificent food from Seona Moss a Six star chef (over and above the five star rating), matched with specialy selected wines by one of Australia's foremost wine writers and presenters, Jeremy Oliver. To top all that off, sharing tables with like minded sparkling people and staying at a magnificent lodge with the lovable and adorable staff.<br />
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...Sounds like an incredible weekend? Well, it certainly was. This was our room for the weekend, which included a welcoming foodie gift pack from the legendary Parap Fine Foods here in Darwin. <br />
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The first evening started with some amazing and delicious canapes served at sunset by the fabulous staff on the deck. We were also welcomed by Nitmiluk Tours Chief Executive officer, Jane Runyu.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 40 degree heat, cool watermelon canapes...just perfect!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beautiful Seona Moss </td></tr>
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Photos of Seona and Jeremy courtesy of Cicada Lodge</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just some of the fabulous staff. As you can see, multi award winning lodge. They just added the 2018 NT Hospitality Award for best restaurant, hotel. Congratulations to you all.</td></tr>
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As you can see the tables were decorated just beautifully<br />
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Our divine dinner menu the first night.....<br />
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Here are photos of the entree, main and dessert...are you salivating yet?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hervey Bay scallops in shell, sea urchin butter, lavender, lemon with Rochford Premium chardonnay 2017 Yarra Valley Vic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black angus eye fillet, geranium scented beetroot, buttered kale, black garlic with Anrew Thomas Kiss shiraz Hunter Valley NSW</td></tr>
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Saturday morning started with more beautiful food.....my continental breakfast...what more can I say.<br />
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We were then treated to a 2 hour Nitmiluk Gorge cruise...simply amazing and beautiful...you never tire of this magnificent ancient place.</div>
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Back to the lodge for, guess what...thats absolutely correct...more beautiful food. This time a spectacular lunch of steamed barra.....<br />
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After lunch some people decided to "rest" I opted for more food. A masterclass with Seona Moss, chef extraordinaire. This talented young chef demonstrated three, simply stunning canapes....and we got to taste all three of them.<br />
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Saturday evening once again started with sunset drinks and canapes on the deck.<br />
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The <i>piece de resistance</i>...our 6 course degustation dinner with matching wines travelling through 6 countries......what can I say..... enjoy the photos. I can still taste all of these spectacular dishes... </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">Bintjie potatoe gnocchi, wild stinging nettle, truffle parmesan, lemon with Tyrrells Vat 1 Semillion 2007 (Photo Fay Miller)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almond gazpacho, crispy Iberian ham, black gzrlic with Descendients de J Palacios Moncerbal single vineyard Mencia 2015 Spain and Corymbia Tempranillo Malbec Cabernet 2017 Aust</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">Aerated chocolate mousse, hazelnut snow, milk tuilles with Joh Jos Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr riesling Auslese 2014, Weheln, Mosel Germany</td></tr>
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Sunday morning started with another beautiful breakfast....</div>
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Then to top it all off a truly magnificent helicopter ride with Nitmiluk Heli Touring<br />
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On driving back home to Darwin, Roger and I reflected on our weekend. Amazing food, unbelievable wine, fantastic people and it certainly was one hell of a <b><i>"Journey of the Palate"</i></b>. Many many thanks to you all.<br />
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FLY FISHINGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11823129764508178996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-50127492720108062632018-09-13T11:46:00.000+09:302018-09-13T11:46:22.408+09:30BYNOE REVISITED When a very close friend, Graeme Williams, who also happens to be a guide (Heritage listed some say) says that he wants to go fishing on his days off because the tides are good, and asks if we would like to come along for a couple of days you don't tell him, <i>"I'll think about it!"</i>. Yes please, is the only answer.<br />
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The last time that we fished Bynoe ( click <a href="http://flyfishersmobnt.blogspot.com/2016/11/">2016</a>) was also one of Graeme's days off nearly two years ago now, so even though we were to be picked up at 3pm, I was packed and ready at 8am and sooooo excited.<br />
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After 'First night' madness with gin and tonics then a couple of reds we were up before dawn to get on the water early. Roggie was a bit seedy but he made it to the boat.<br />
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We were lucky because there was little or no wind so even though the tides were neapish and only coming down to 3.2m which meant the barra would stay up in the trees more, it allowed us to get onto spots that you can only fish every now and then.<br />
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We ran along in one spot on the electric for a 9am low and initially it looked pretty bare, then we saw schools of small barra under the submerged branches of the trees with a mixture of other fish. The challenge was not only to get the fly to the fish under the branches, but you have the added challenge of getting under the over hanging branches as well, the getting the fish out of the snags. Great fun.<br />
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Theres a lot of big fish out there, but according to Roggie, the <i><b>most important</b> </i><b><i>fish</i></b> of any trip is the first fish in the boat because it breaks a spell of 'No Fish'.<br />
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The first fish was around 50cm and there were a heap of fish this size under the <br />
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esecially as the tides got lower and later in the day. On one flat on the second day we estimated we saw over a hundred of these fish in schools of twenty plus, it was amazing. Other flats had twenty or thirty on them too, and now and then the bigger fish (70cm+?) in twos and threes along with a couple of inquitive lone ones that were 90cm plus that would come up and seem to take a look at us then swim off and ignore us. Frustrating!!<br />
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There were some flats where we fished the run in tide on the colour changes and on one the barra were non stop boofing on the small bait as they tried to get up the drains. Sounded like the OK Corral gunfight. But we were not invited, because no matter how many flies we put into the boofing fish they ignored us and then as quickly as they started they just stopped.<br />
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There were some monster queenies out there too that gave me heart failure a few times as they monstered the flies. Trevally around 40cm gave us a good time, they fight like mad, the <b><i>3 x10 fish</i></b> as Graeme calls them. Weight 3lb but fight like 10lb.<br />
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There is never a dull moment fishing with the <i>'Jurrasic Duo'</i>, Roggie and Graeme, they are either sledging or trying to sing songs from the fifties and sixties, and in between times they caught fish, and in Graemes case some muddies as well.<br />
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By midday they both wanted to go in to have lunch and then a nap before going out again later in the afternoon to catch a few Jack and Snapper for the freezer with the barra fillets.<br />
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The <i><b>Jurassic Duo</b></i> below....<br />
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FLY FISHINGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11823129764508178996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-39577895860030165982018-04-26T08:12:00.003+09:302018-04-26T08:12:49.603+09:30Saltwater Fly Fishing (SWOFFING) Darwin, NT: 20180425 - Corroboree prep comp outing<a href="http://swoffingntwaters.blogspot.com/2018/04/20180425-corroboree-prep-comp-outing.html?spref=bl">Saltwater Fly Fishing (SWOFFING) Darwin, NT: 20180425 - Corroboree prep comp outing</a>: So my usual fly fishing expeditioner has entered the local fly fishing freshwater comp without me (seeing I have been turned off comps for ...FLY FISHINGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11823129764508178996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-12670259354696217882018-04-26T08:12:00.001+09:302018-04-26T08:12:06.591+09:30Saltwater Fly Fishing (SWOFFING) Darwin, NT: 20180414 - Tuna Time already - Trip SUmmary Video<a href="http://swoffingntwaters.blogspot.com/2018/04/20180414-tuna-time-already-trip-summary.html?spref=bl">Saltwater Fly Fishing (SWOFFING) Darwin, NT: 20180414 - Tuna Time already - Trip SUmmary Video</a>: some of the things we saw and did this last fly fishing trip ------ tuna hammering baitfish a rod length from the boat me almost falling o...FLY FISHINGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11823129764508178996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-18679752789636239002017-10-16T15:55:00.000+09:302017-10-16T15:55:17.157+09:30CANADA PART TWO - ALBERTA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA Well after travelling around the north of Saskatchewan for a week and having a ball with the pike we travelled back to Regina after visiting a heap of big lakes for future fishing trips. Some of the lakes very close to Regina had a heap of pike and while we were there a young fellow caught and released a huge Walleye in Lake Diefenbaker. He had a para vane on though and for fly fishing I don't think dredging goes quiet that far, for me anyway. After a bit of a rest we were off again, and I have to say how good the roads and Highway we travelled on were, <i><b>hardly any big trucks</b></i> and that may be because of the rail network there. I counted one hundred and seventy cars on one train and it was only one of the trains on the lines. Must take a lot of the loads by rail instead of road which was very impressive compared to our big highways down here.<br />
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But we were off the Calgary first so I could go shopping for trout gear. Roggie wont tie flies on anything below a No.1 hook and usually draws the line at a No. 2. But I was going trout fishing for the first time....I'm too used to always stripping the fly...and Roggie said I had to let it float around...that was going to be hard for me. Just let the bloody fly drift he said....well!!!!! that's easier said then done but have a look at the backdrop for the fishing....so who cares ...magic.<br />
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Well....we left early in the morning so that we could reach Calgary around lunch time and I could go to have a shop in <i style="font-weight: bold;">Bass Pro </i>....how exciting.<br />
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The boys had a bit of trouble getting me out of Bass Pro...I could have spent a lot of time...and money...they but they wouldn't let me and Roggie said you could see the drag marks in the floor and parking area where they dragged me back to the truck....not true...the truth is, I couldn't carry anymore.<br />
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Our next stop was Banff and the rockies...amazing. Lots of water around and snow up high...beautiful. This is a little spot we had our six casts near Banff under a road bridge....then and an earlier photo when Richie was there in January..<br />
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We had our first couple of casts under the road bridge,.....and yeah ...again Roggie got the first fish...a small bull trout<br />
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We didn't fish a lot around Banff, but took a lot of trips around the area to have a look at the beautiful place that the area is...too many people at the Fairmont in Lake Louise for Roggie...it was so crowded there..beautiful but I have to agree too many people, whereas Banff was not overcrowded at all, heaps of Aussies there and for the best coffee ever go to the <b><i>Good Earth Coffeehouse</i></b> in the <b><i>Elk & Avenue Hotel</i></b><br />
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On the trips around Banff we came upon a few of the locals, this bear just having a stroll up the highway right up beside the truck and then strolled off into the bush....<br />
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maybe not quiet as exciting these too...<br />
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....and there were a lot of deer around in different spots.<br />
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I suppose I better get onto the fishing for real now. After Banff we travelled south to our next accomodation at Fernie which was just in BC. On the way we did our usual and fished any spot along the road that looked fishable. While we were fishing under another bridge beside the road in the Kootenay River we saw the red coloured salmon rolling over from us but couldn't get close enough to get photos but on the St.Marys near Cranbrook we saw a lot of these red salmon at the end of their run when they turn red before dying. We were told that they were sockeye but are called Kookanee because unlike many other salmon they are landlocked and do not go to the sea, but at the end of their life they still head up into the headwaters to spawn before they die.<br />
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There is a lot more on these landlocked salmon on a separate blog so click on <a href="http://janamalinekphoto.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/kokanee-salmon-sockeye-in-disguise.html">KOOKANEE</a> see more on these...fascinating.<br />
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In Fernie we had a three bedroom aparment for a ridiculously low rental because it was off season, the partment complex fronted the Elk river which was about 50 metre from our door, crystal clear and full of fish, bull and cutthroat or cutbar. You could actually see them laying in the water in groups, facing upstream. We only got a few fish here. cutthroat or cut bar, not sure of the difference, but luckily ran into an English couple who were avid fly fishers. They put us onto the lighter gear and tiny leaders, with even tinier flies. That was a new experience for Richie and me, and not stripping the floating fly was even more difficult when all the fishing I have done in the Salt and billabongs required some stripping at least. More on that shortly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Even had seats for the 'Old' people</b></td></tr>
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Our English friend gave us directions to some out of the way places further along the river to try, but prior to going to these spots we had to get smaller flies, not the ones that Roggie had tied, which we were told might entice some of the bigger bull trout, and they did because we watched the big trout following them in the clear water, but would not take them. There were heaps of drift boats going past all the time and all they did was short casts and left their tiny flies to drift. Didn't see them catch any fish like us though, but we could concentrate on an area longer I suppose. So off to get the flies...<br />
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The Elk River fly shop was wonderful, could have stayed there and talked to them all day. George, their big black watch dog , adopted Roggie and would follow him everywhere then lay down with his head on Roggies feet. We nearly stole him, even when we went back for MORE flies George would run out and greet Roggie then curl up at his feet. Might have just like the drone of his voice?<br />
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We also got some lighter leader at the shop, we had been using 10lb, but had been advised to use the 4lb, because it was the only size that would go though the eye of the small hooks. We got some of that, it was so thin Richie and I could not see it, but the Old Fella had no problem, he tied all our flies on, and with my tuna fishing that was quiet a few flies initially. So with our new flies, and the thinnest of leader material we headed for some of the spots down the river.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Even the drift boat came down here, miles from where they lauched<br />the river split here under a railway bridge and had a smaller stream that went to the right in this photo.</b></td></tr>
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The water in The Elk at a spot near a railroad bridge that we found was beautiful and it spit the river in two with the main river going straight under and a smaller stream off to the side. The water was so clear and some of the bigger bull trout frustrated us in the main stream, we could see them clearly but they would not take a floating fly or even look at it, but if a two or three inch bunny eel or clouser went past them they would follow and turn away. Very frustrating. But the smaller stream to the side had less flow in it and some still pools and it was where I did most of my fishing. <br />
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Now I should first set the scene, I was determined to fish with my eight weight, it was a lucky rod after all, Roggie kept saying I should use a lighter six weight and I think he may have called me 'pig headed' but I stuck with my eight weight. I must admit Roggie was right in the end, the first half a dozen or so (seven I think) that took the fly I tried to 'Tuna Fish' and lift out of the water. Not on that light leader...it breaks. Finally after Roggie threatened not to tie on any more leaders or flies I let him give me instructions as I fished again. (He never shut up) His instructions worked..I didn't slam the next fish, took everything gently and Yay!!!!! I landed my first ever trout.<br />
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After that I was finally convinced to use the lighter 6 weight, it was very soft and sloppy more like an old car aerial from the 70's, but I never lost another fish and it would cast further than I needed. Not stripping the fly was hard but I did get used to it, but having learnt to fly fish on queenfish around a metre in the Robinson River at Seven Emu, where you stripped as fast as you could to get the fish, it wasn't easy.<br />
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We got a heap of fish on the light gear, honestly lost count, they came from both the main stream and side streamof the river but no big bull trout, all the smaller cutthrout or the rainbow cross cut bar. <b><i>Next time we will take our four weights</i></b>.<br />
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We explored most the rivers and streams around Fernie but a lot were shut off because of bushfires so we were limited to access beside the main roads a lot. In one spot, as we were driving across a bridge on a smaller river, I forget its name, we slowed down because we could see fish in the clear water below. There were big bull trout, facing into the flow, they would have been about 5lb and bigger Roggie guessed and amoungst them were large groups of the salmon on the end of their run. So as usual found a track down and had to have a cast. The bull trout ignored us, even with the larger flies that seemed at times to interest them but no bites. We were told later that because the salmon were spawning they were waiting for the loose eggs to float down to them so should have used glo flies that looked like the eggs. I'm not sure what type of fly that is, but you may.<br />
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Whilst the Bull trout wouldn't take the flies the small spawing salmon did. They hit us all the time.<br />
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<span id="goog_779369316"></span><span id="goog_779369317"></span>Saving up now for our next fishing trip, our mate Canadian Pete who lives in Darwin is from BC so we are going to get all the drum from him before we go next time and fish a lot more in BC, and probably some of the rivers in the US just below Canada. Will leave some time for the Pike in the lakes, <b><i>might be a long holiday I think. </i></b><br />
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We didn't only fish in Canada, spent a lot of time with our extended family there, Roggie and Gord (Richies father in law) were in their element with <b><i>red wine and Irish whisky</i></b>. But what a wonderful time we had, AND Richies brother in law Reilly even took me to a football match in a convertible black Audi. The family get - togethers were the best.<br />
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Over the recent years Richie has been travelling around Canada and the US just below the border exploring for the fishing areas, (he grew up travelling around Australia fishing and it has still got him hooked). He showed us a lot of the places on the map and this trip we did around 5000 kms and visited a few of those fishing spots, BUT there are a lot more. So planning the next trip for a longer driving/fishing holiday, but right now, back home and the <b><i>Darwin Harbour</i></b> is fishing well, <b><i>Dundee</i></b> and <b><i>Bynoe</i></b> are going off and then we will take a couple of weeks to visit our good mate Jono Shales over in <b><i>Exmouth</i></b>. Roggie said its no good trying to save up for our old age, it's too late, so lets go fishing. Isn't he wonderful.<br />
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<br />FLY FISHINGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11823129764508178996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-48724726052558220342017-10-14T12:39:00.000+09:302017-10-14T12:40:02.702+09:30CANADA PART ONE - SASKATCHEWANWe have just returned from nearly six weeks in Canada, where we fished in three states (Provinces) Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia (BC). We tried as many streams, rivers and lakes that we could in the time we had. (Going back for three months next time). For the trip we took Eights and six weights, and wish we had taken a couple of four weights now.<br />
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First we visited Roggies son Richie at his home in Regina so we could have a look in <i style="font-weight: bold;">Cabelas, </i>what fun...<b><i>Bass Pro</i></b> was on the bucket list for the trip to Alberta.<br />
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Then we all went to one of the <b><i>one hundred thousand lakes</i></b> that State has, in a place called Thompson's Camp on the Otter Lake, north of Regina on the way to the <b><i>Yukon Territory</i></b>. Log Cabins, float planes the whole thing. This map gives you some indication of the thousands of linking lakes in the area, a huge are to fish.<br />
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It's an absolutely fabulous spot, we were there at the end of the school vacation break so there was not a lot of people around. As soon as we arrived Roggie, as usual, had to have a cast off one of the pontoons, .."Just to check the line", he said. On his first cast he though he caught weed, but the second cast produced our first of many pike to the trip. Not big, on a big 'No see Um' fly on the sloppy six weight, and as usual you couldn't shut him up then.<br />
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Next morning bright and early we hired a boat and a guide for the day thinking that we would probably get lost on all the waterways if we were by ourselves. Our first priorty according to the guide was to catch enough <b style="font-style: italic;">Walleye </b>for lunch. The boys got into it and started off with small ones then progressed to a couple a bit bigger. There is strict limits on the amount of fish you can keep in these areas to prevent overfishing, and all the catch that was legal size was kept in a fish tank on the boat, and our guide, Austin, ( a young trout fisher from BC) kept replacing the smaller ones as the boys got bigger fish. They got heaps, but both Roggie and Rich were disappointed in the fight, even on 10lb leader and light gear they said the fish were a bit like weed to pull in. We kept the legal amount for lunch and a couple of larger ones for the guide and his mates to have. I think for the day we got about sixty fish all up. Landed that is.<br />
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After lunch the boys got Austin to change from the Walleye fishing so we could chase Pike, and got him to take us into spots that looked like you would get a Saratoga out of the weeds at home. We had the Eight weights for this, with floating or intermediate 9 foot tips. I think a sinking line would have worked in some spots too, but the pike were really there in large numbers, but you had to have a good wire trace as we learnt the hard way when a few bigger ones just bit the fly off. Roggie cut the swivel off some six inch wire traces that Richie had and tied the leader to the top of the trace. Worked for some, but we still had the bigger fish trying to take the fish that we had hooked and they would bit off the line a lot. Lost a lot of big flies, but had a great time. Roggie had tied up a christmas fly last year and we had it with us so when we lost a lot of flies he put that one on. It caught heaps until a smaller pike took it and this metre plus pike swallowed the lot.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Roggies Christmas Fly was a hit....until the monster from Otter Lake took it and a fish.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Richie with a typical Pike we were getting you can see the type of water in the background, shallow and weedy.</b></td></tr>
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We will take single strand trace wire with us next time, because we couldn't get any in Regina, only the seven strand stuff and Roggie couldn't make up the proper traces like he does at home. Old age I suppose but I better be careful there because he was the only one who could see, and without glasses, to tie 4lb leader onto size 14 and 16 hooks when we were after the trout.<br />
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As I said we stopped counting fish after sixty so what a great days fishing. We were trying to decide what to do the next day, hire a boat ourselves or take a road trip and fish all the accessible inlets. We chose the inlets because initially in the morning it was cold on the water and you know who wouldn't stop whinging.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Too bloody cold.</b></td></tr>
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It was cool but not too bad I thought, got quite warm in the sun during the day and then cooled off at night. We had a 'Pot Bellied' stove in the cabin so Roggie got it going to warm up. He had it red hot and we had to move the rods away from it before it melted. Then had to open all the windows until it cooled down.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Don't let Roggie play with fire</b></td></tr>
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Our plan for the next day was to go fifty kms or so and fish some of the inlets just to see what it was like. We said that we would limit ourselves to half a dozen casts each just to see what was there and then move on. Well the boys made the plan, and you've probably heard about the best laid plans of mice and men. Ha Ha.<br />
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Our first stop the next day was only about 10kms north of Thompsons, it was one of the many little spots where you can pull off the road and launch a canoe or have a fish, a lot of these have little spots to camp as well with wood already cut for your campfire. We were out of the really big flies so only used some about three inches long in difference colours and styles, but anything with yellow and green seemed to be the best there was not one spot that we stopped along the road, where we did not catch fish, sometimes only one or two but we covered three hundred (300) kms that day and had an absolute great time. We only kept one rod rigged so had to have our six casts each. In one spot we landed twelve fish in the first eighteen casts, and had huge fish, Pike we think, take some of the smaller fish as they were coming in. It was not that deep and you could see the fish a lot. The line was a 9 foot ghost intermediate tip with a floating back. In some spots, where we could get room to cast in the trees behind us, I think a 300g might have coaxed a few more of the bigger ones up from the deep. With a big fly. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>There are little spots like this all along the rod and this is a typical pike </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Another 'First cast' fish, that was lucky to be landed because a monster trying to eat it.</b></td></tr>
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The pike apparently grow to about 1.5m and 30kg, this one below might give you and idea of one of the big ones and you would almost need an 18 inch trace to stop it biting of the line?? We saw some huge ones, maybe not quiet this big, that took smaller fish we had hooked. Ten weight and longer tracs next time.<br />
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<br />FLY FISHINGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11823129764508178996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-65601299955844961472017-07-08T15:56:00.000+09:302017-07-08T15:56:16.510+09:30BARRA - A FEW GOOD FISH<div class="messageContent" style="color: #141414; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; min-height: 100px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">
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Apologies for the unashamed brag-photos...<br />
Haven't had as much time on the water as I would like over the last few months, but managed a couple of crackers nevertheless. While I acknowledge that barra are not at all difficult to coax into eating feathers, big ones can be quite difficult to bring to bag when there is no boat involved!<br />
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Three 'meteries' so far this year, all on the 9-weight, and <i><b>all land-based</b></i>.<br />
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The best Barra or Threadie they have caught, PB's on other things, <i><b>fish in good numbers</b></i> seen and caught and <i><b>unusual occurrences</b></i> that come out of left field.<br />
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Long time Flyfisher and veteran of Bynoe harbour over 15 yrs Theo Baisi from Sydney had one of those weeks you wish for, <b><i>he did it all and caught it all.</i></b><br />
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The highlight for me was discovering one of the <i><b>bait ball's </b></i>that are around this time of year generally wide and carrying big pelagics carving them up.This time it came very close to the Mangroves and the resultant attraction to the Barramundi couldn't be resisted. <i><b>I get to witness this rarely and this day we drove straight up to it.</b></i><br />
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This opportunistic fish must have been caught 5 times this year by clients in my favourite Snapper spot usually by grabbing a little trevally and refusing to let go, as hard as i lecture him he still does it.<br />
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Had a great day out with Glenn Watt and Dean Jackson in a very tight creek trying to stop fish like this on my 9wgt fly rod,we all lost Barra in the tight confines until to this one nailed Glenn 114 cms on a rubber tail,im in the photo because I did a great job on the net. next time I'm taking my 11 wgt !<br />
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Some great Mangrove Jacks around this year<br />
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One of the standard procedures guiding out of Crab Claw at Bynoe Harbour is to utilise the turn of the high tide. On any week making to the moon it occurs in early to late afternoon.<br />
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I generally take a break two thirds into the incoming tide for a few hrs then go out and target the turn of the high tide for pelagics. The main point to consider here is any turn of tide is a solunar major (feeding period).<br />
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The closer it happens toward sunset the better and I always called this period the" Diurnal Nocturnal Crossover" which means day time feeders heading to bed and night time feeders getting out and about.<br />
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There a numerous places in Bynoe that this occurs and can often be frantic as this footage shows.<br />
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Cheers GraemeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14290332743647044152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-62311385576492519612017-03-18T10:41:00.001+09:302017-03-21T11:15:07.861+09:30TWO DOGS DAYSEvery year I look forward to going to Tasmania some years New Zealand but mostly Dorothee and I are drawn to the huge number of diverse lakes and streams of our most southern island state.<br />
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After a year of staring at tropical fish and true to my roots I needed a Trout fix, bit hard for Northern fly fishers to understand but for Dorothee and I the attraction is the environment, the animals and the people in the highlands that keeps us going back.</div>
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This year was no different but as like many times over the 30 yrs of visiting the conditions can be as varied as the places you visit.</div>
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These were the lakes we fished with friends over an 8 day period and as much as I would have liked it to be excellent in catching it wasn't in fact it was as hard as I had seen for a few years some fish but not many.</div>
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<b><i> Dottie trying to put 2 kg through a size 20 hook eye during a spinner hatch</i></b></div>
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The reason it seems was the beautiful weather, the hot and still days warmed the surfaces of most lakes there were no Jacids no dun hatches no beetles and very few spinner's about.in other words<b> no food</b>, the fish stayed down and all sorts of drys,nymphs wet fly's etc were not working.</div>
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But like most stories there was a twist to the trip into the highlands. Our good friend and local guide Greg Beecroft had invited us to stay and was taking a break and fishing with us, what came from left field was when one of his friends had to leave unexpectedly and we needed to look after the dogs.</div>
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Now that seemed simple enough, Dotty and I love dogs so we can feed them play with them tie them up and when we come back from fishing take them for walks<b> "wrong wrong".</b></div>
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Now Greg's boat was a great boat, narrow and especially good in cruising or drogue managed on the wind drift conditions often experienced but Chloe and Ruger were not Jack Russel's so space suddenly represented a new challenge, on one special day another friend Dave Billings came for a social fish as well.<br />
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Hugging them or cuddling them Ruger especially still managed to put his size 16 paw on my line or just as often stand, stretch and lay down on my line.</div>
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Did we enjoy this ? we loved every minute of it a new level of symbiotic fishing because they alerted us to every Musk Duck, Swan, bumblebee or platypus that invaded our space (according to them anyhow) you can imagine Ruger chasing a bumblebee in the boat it happened !!</div>
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It was a sad day when they had to go back who's owner asked innocently "hope they weren't a problem" 😮😮</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14290332743647044152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-88183667566664208362017-01-01T10:53:00.000+09:302017-01-01T11:31:24.955+09:302017 WHAT IS REQUIRED TO FISH IN THE NT?It looks like a great deal of the inter-tidal waters of the NT are about to have more restrictions put on them, when in the view of many, there should be fewer, if any restrictions for recreational fishers on these waters.<br />
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<i>“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.” </i><br />
― <a class="authorOrTitle" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4380234.Elizabeth_I" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elizabeth I</a><span id="quote_book_link_3590558"></span></div>
Recent Media/information releases from the Northern Lands Council (NLC) in relation to access to these inter- tidal waters over Aboriginal Lands in 2017 state that <b><i>Permits will be required.</i></b> The problem that confuses some of us is, if ONE (1) permit will cover all areas, or do we have to obtain different ones from each of the (around 200 I'm told) Traditional Owners (TO's), cost, where do we get the permits, and who will Police them considering that from 1st January,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <i><b>Aquatic</b></i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> bi</span><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-style: italic;">osecurity powers will be strengthened and Aboriginal marine rangers will be able to become fisheries inspectors under changes to the Fisheries Act." </b>....(fisheries have the power to seize property, vessels etc. in some cases) so there will be more police/inspectors on the water.</span></span></span><br />
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To bring you up date....you may recall our post of the 6th August 2016 <a href="http://flyfishersmobnt.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/where-will-we-be-able-to-fish-for.html">"Where will we be able to fish for the Million dollar fish around Bynoe" </a> (click to go to link). At that stage the concerns over fishing the inter-tidal waters of Bynoe were, and still are a worry. Many of us obtained permits which expire <i>"two months after the High Courts Determination of the Mud Bay proceedings". </i><br />
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On the 20 December 2016 the Northern Land Council (NLC) put out a media release confirming the closures under the Kenbi agreement and adding that permits will apparently be required for other areas too that would be closed to recreational fishers. The implementation of the necessity for permits was waived until the lst of July 2017. See below for the first of the info. or click on this link for the full NLC information sheets <a href="http://www.nlc.org.au/articles/info/sea-rights-in-the-northern-territory">Sea/Country Rights</a><br />
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The conditions of the Kenbi claim for inter-tidal waters in Bynoe are still the same and I have highlighted that part of the information sheet...<b style="font-style: italic;">you must have a permit for these areas </b>no matter the arrangements made for the other areas.<br />
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whilst the map in the link above specifically marks the areas in Ida Bay that a permit is required it also marks a line along the adjoining coast where it allows fishing in the inter-tidal zone either side of Ida Bay, but not so around Knife and Crocodile Islands and this is the inter-tidal area referred to for those islands in the picture below.<br />
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Note: In the original Kenbi claim in papers from the <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2002/16.html">Courts</a> (click for link ) Justice Toohey identifies the land claim and says this. <b style="font-style: italic;">"</b><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">It appears to extend more or less uniformly out in all directions (excluding the sea)</span><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-style: italic;"> " </b>The 'sea' appears to have been added as a result of the Mud Bay decision but I can't verify that without reading more reams of court documents.</span><br />
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For us fly fishers these inter-tidal areas or flats are the main area we sight fish, and most of our fishing is 'catch and release' with no real impact on the area, but I fear that we will suffer the most if the sensible decisions are <b>not</b> made. This has already been pointed out to the powers that be and in my opinion, arrogantly brushed off.<br />
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The responses were <b>comical</b> in some sense, here is a post from facebook as to what one of the main <i><b>Recreational Fishing Organisations representative told us would apply??"</b></i><br />
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<i>"Anything above the low tide mark is out of bounds (Name) but because the low tide mark is variable the average (mean) low tide mark is used for prosecution. <b>This information is up to the individual to determine</b> and is <b>not released to the public</b>."</i><br />
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It was pointed out to him that the 'green' colour on charts is based on the surveys that form the Admiralty charts and indicates the inter-tidal zone, based on the 'mean' tides...this diagram shows the colours used and the <i><b>arrows on the right</b></i> indicated the tidal heights used.<br />
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You can see that the tide may go higher or lower than the arrow, but they, the Admiralty use the 'mean' so contary to the information, the <i><b>inter-tidal information is available</b></i> to the individual and I'm sure the Courts would use the 'Reasonable Man' test, so that if you were on the edge of the green without a permit, you may be right, but right in the centre you may have trouble. The Organisation did say that signs with GPS co-ordinates would be put up ?????<br />
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I feel that the concerns we tried to express in our August 2016 post were just brushed aside as the possible <b>ravings of an old fool</b>, <i>they may have been right and I hope they were</i>, but this is still a concern to a lot of us...but from my point of view a cartoon I saw on a post to the Minister the other day captures it all up until now....<br />
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Just to give you and idea of some of the impact locally under the new changes from July 2017 the inter- tidal areas (ie the parts marked in green in the maps below) are closed to those without a permit and there are more..<br />
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I wonder what all this will do to tourism, the way it is playing out now and unless some common sense applies like <b style="font-style: italic;">allowing recreational fishing in all inter-tidal waters, </b>just imagine the poor old tourist or 'Grey Ghost' drives all the way up here camps at a place in Bynoe/Dundee and puts his small boat in to fish around the nearby harbour but strays into the inter-tidal zones that requires a permit by mistake.<br />
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Will he be fined, could his boat etc be confiscated, how will he know where he can go and not go or where to get a permit and who from. <b>CONFUSING ISN'T IT</b>.<br />
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The 'Grey Ghost' and the tourists might just become that....ghosts and we may not see many of them.<br />
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<b>The Guides </b>they will have to have permits, how many I don't know and then be able to identify their clients or at least the number. <b>I BET THERE WILL BE A COST IN THAT.</b><br />
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<i><b>Sadly I expect political finger pointing, blaming, bureaucratic bungling, arrogance, apathy and greed to control the decisions made.</b></i><br />
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Drove straight into this early one morning<br />
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Put this on a video sharing site once and it got 100,00 hits in about a weekAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14290332743647044152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-14897268195845087652016-12-08T09:54:00.000+09:302016-12-08T10:27:10.168+09:30AAANNNDDD....WE'RE OFF AND RACINGAs most of us get ready to "put the blinkers on"in preparation for, hopefully, a <i><b>good wet and runoff.....</b></i><br />
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Spare a thought for the unsung hero of the Sweetwater, <i style="font-weight: bold;">the mighty Saratoga</i>, which, in my opinion is a far greater adversary than the iconic barramundi. (See also <a href="http://flyfishersmobnt.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/the-saratoga-and-legend-of-goose-creek.html">Insights Link</a>)<br />
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Early morning sees you fishing the top water across the lilies, pandanus nd snaggy areas of the billabongs/rivers with a floating line and poppers, gurglers and all manner of weedless flies. It's also been noted and discused that they will take an abridged verson of the trout fly known as the Chernobyl Ant.<br />
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As the day wears on and the sun gets higher in the sky the fish, as always, will move into shaded cover and deeper in the water column. This is the time where being a fly fisher and actually hunting fishing rather than just dragging a lump of rubber or plastic around comes into its own. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful midday 'Toga.</td></tr>
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At this time I'll switch to a weighted fly (still on a floating line) and begin a clock ray method where I'll start at 3 or 9 o'çlock to the bow of the boat and systematically work my way round until I end up at 3 or 9 o'çlock. Failing this method I'll switch to an intermediate (slow sink) line to get further down into the water column.<br />
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When it comes to Saratoga <b><i>the lilies are you friend</i></b> as they will often hide under the pads awaiting poor unsuspecting insects and frogs.<br />
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Saratoga are dirty fighters and will take advantage of every missed opportunity an angler gives them from darting in around the lilies, jumping and even trying to dislodge the hook by grabbing a snag or lily stem and doing their charactoristic snake roll which looks just like a python throwing a loop over its prey.<br />
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of a taboo word when it comes to fly fishing. They are getting more and more
popular but still, I have been asked if I am just going to use streamers why
not use gear instead of a fly rod. After all fly fishing should be done with
flies (bugs) right? For some people definitely, “Dry or die!” for me though I
will “Stream until I scream!”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> There are a lot of different things when
fishing streamers to consider. It is a lot more than, if nothing is hatching
tying on the old faithful wooly bugger and swinging it across the river. Trout
are predators. I know casting a big marabou chenille rabbit fur concoction all
tied on not one but two large hooks with an odd name like “the incredible trout
pounder” sounds horrible and potentially painful, but I like to catch trout
that can eat your trout.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 36pt;">Just like with
the bug side of fly fishing, for streamers you have to know what is going on in
the water and be as realistic with your presentation as you can be with whatever
you are trying to imitate. You don’t just blindly pick out something big and
gaudy and throw it in the water, then strip like a girl trying to pay for
college back to you. You have to understand type of prey these river monsters
are going to try to destroy. Mostly this is any fish smaller than what you are
trying to catch. Other times it could be crayfish, lizards, snakes or even a
mouse. Fun Fact: Trout can and will eat fish that are half their size.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Some things to
consider while on the water, how do the smaller fish act in the water you are
fishing? Where can they be found at certain times of the day? As you’re wading
or walking the river try to see where you can find concentrations of bait fish.
What colors and sizes are they? What kind of structure is nearby? I am always
looking for the spot where a larger fish can retreat after eating or, where
food will be delivered to them. Deeper water with some current nearby, cut
banks, boulders, log jams etc. Any place that looks like I wouldn’t want to be
there if I were a small fish late at night. Brown town has a high crime rate.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">While streamer
fishing you have to remember you are not fishing for a lot of fish you are
fishing for big fish. It almost becomes more like a trophy hunt. There is a lot of movement involved, if you
are going to do it well. Take your time and look over the river. Think about
how you’re going to get your fly into the spot you want to fish before casting.
If you’re not getting any interest try to figure out why. Is it presentation?
Depth? Or are the fish just being assholes. I still have not figured out how to
catch fish on those days. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Most of the time
though it is something small you are doing, especially in some of the blue
ribbon waters in Utah. Last year I was fishing the Green river walking upstream
from Little Hole and I could see fish everywhere but could not seem to be able
to get anything to commit. It was so bad, had I walked into a fish market to
buy a fish I would have been laughed at. After taking a break I noticed that
the fish were all so close to the bank that the difference between myself and
the people catching fish in the drift boats that kept cruising by was, even
though we were fishing virtually the same water the fish were far enough away
from the drift boats that they couldn’t see the anglers. I changed my approach
and got ninja stealthy hiding behind boulders and bushes. The casting was ugly, but the fish were now getting an
unexpected lip piercing. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green River, slow stripped a streamer from shallow water into a deep pool while hiding behind a bush. Ninja Stealthy</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Usually a fish will show interest within
the first few casts when tossing meat. I usually will take a small section of
river and make a mental grid, start at one end and work my way through each
part of the grid. I try to work in a few casts with different depths and strip
speeds to make sure I am covering most of the water. I always start with the most likely area to
hold a larger fish and work through the rest from there. If you can’t find any players it is time to
move on. No matter how fishy the spot may
look. It is hard but you have to do it. I personally will covers miles of river
when I fish. There are definitely spots where I get stubborn and cast, and cast,
scratch my head look around and say I know there is a fish there and cast
again. It almost never works out. If I gambled like I fished on those days I would
be homeless, it hardly ever pays off.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> For retrieves I will usually always start with
a cast getting as close to the opposite bank as I and begin a fast erratic
retrieve utilizing the Kelly Galloup jerk strip. I do this because I want my streamer
to look like a panicking bait fish that has gotten flushed out of shallow water
into the dangerous deep. If there is a
fish that is ready to feed, or even in the area my streamer will usually get
crushed. If this isn’t working I will slow it down some or even dead drift
through some of the water. Twitching the streamer as I am drifting it trying to
make it appear like a wounded or dying fish. When out there vary your retrieve.
The same thing will not always work, sometimes long fast strips will get it
done but other times you will need to slow things down. Another trick I like to
use is just before I get to the last 25% of my retrieve I will throw a mend in
the line if I am using floating line and change the direction the streamer is
moving. This can at times be what makes a fish that has been following commit. At
some log jams and cut banks I will even let my streamer swing to just in front
of it and leave it basically knocking at the door for up to a minute twitching
the streamer every 5 to 10 seconds to make it look like a small fish that is
feeding in the current. It is exciting to watch a huge shadow seem to
materialize from under the bank or out of the log jam and make the streamer
disappear. There is no perfect way to retrieve a streamer, on the other side
there is no wrong way to do it either. Experimentation and time on the water is
the name of the game. You will start to develop a game plan that works for you
the longer you stick with it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The best times
to fish streamers by far are, early morning, before dark and on cloudy days. As
the day gets brighter and the fish get harder to entice into a feeding bite, I
will change tactics and try to get a bite out of aggression or territorial
response. To do this I will use a larger streamer aggressively cast and strip
through areas likely to hold fish. I will also use this technique in winter
when the fish are less likely to move after a streamer.</span></div>
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streamer box and picking one out to use is dark day dark color, bright day
bright color. This is also true for water clarity. The darker streamers will
show a clearer silhouette in dark weather or cloudy water. I get excited for the
cloudy dark days even a slight drizzle. </span></div>
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When the river is blown out a dark streamer
that is a little bulky is the ticket. The fish should be pushed up near the
banks and the bulk of the streamer will help them locate it with their lateral
line by picking up the water displaced by the streamer during your retrieve,
when they get close enough they will see the dark silhouette, and whamo! You
have now caught something on a day most people walk away from the river in
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<span lang="EN-US">The last thing I am going to touch base on
is, what size rod to use. Leave your little 3wt at home your tossing meat. I
use a 6wt mostly a 5wt for some of the smaller streamers is good also. Some
people will go as high and an 8wt if they are throwing really big streamers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Floating line or sinking line depends on the
water you are fishing. People each have their own preferences. I usually make
my decision when I get to the water and will carry a spool of sinking line with
me. I also carry a variety of sinking leaders to put on my floating line just
in case I don’t want to commit to the fun of a full sink line. I am not a
minimalist by any means I would rather have it, than want it. My personal combo
is a Loop Evotec 6 wt medium fast action with a Shadow fly fishing reel.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There is so much to get into on streamer
fishing, this article has barely scratched the surface but I hope it helps. I
am constantly learning and the game is evolving so quickly not too long ago a 3
inch wooly bugger was considered huge! Guys are now throwing 12 inch streamers
to chase after 30 inch brown trout with all sorts of strange names for the
flies. A couple books that are great resources and will go in depth a lot more
are Kelly Galloups “Modern Streamers for
Trophy Trout” and George Daniels “ Strip Set”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Old fashioned wooly bugger</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Double bugger</span></div>
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FLY FISHINGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11823129764508178996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-16013295139145189072016-12-03T15:12:00.000+09:302016-12-03T15:12:34.067+09:30WHEN THE UNEXPECTED OCCURS.<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">James, our mate from Utah and I were fishing out north the Vernons. We missed our chance at a quad hook up on 70cm plus queenies (2 on boat) and decided to call it a day, after all it was 4 oclock and
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Half way back to the channel between
Knight reef and North Vernon the motor started to surge, so we dropped back to
idle and decided to throw a jerry can of fuel into the tank (thinking it
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>We went to start and no deal. No desire to crank, then
finally did, but was slow and laboured and wouldn’t fire.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The next half hour was spent swapping batteries, ripping out
fuel filters and cannibalising Minn Kota wiring to bridging batteries as a last
effort.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was at this point the gravity of the situation began to
set in. There we sat, between Melville island and the Vernons, sunset a few
hours away and no other boats in sight. We had a Minn Kota with a battery that
had copped a flogging all day and the cranking battery that was suspect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sea was calm thankfully</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had no desire to be stuck in the channel over night, the
plan was set to aim for the point of Middle Vernon, working with the current
and hopefully make it to the top of Knight reef to have a good chance to make a
run at the blue holes when the tide turned. If this didn’t work, we would be
sitting in the channel or swept out past the Tiwis. Neither of which was an
agreeable outcome, both adding significantly to the possibility of needing to
set off the EPIRB</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With two mobile with zero service, 112 not even yielding a
dial tone and no other real communication methods (VHF’s quick connect plug
corroded, so not operational), It was decided that we would turn one off to
preserve battery, and sacrifice the others charge in an effort to push an SMS
or a Facebook Message through if a glimmer of signal was to appear. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first message to get through at 19.46 then contact was lost again.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As it turned out, by the time it was getting dark, we’d made
it further than anticipated, the first battery was drained and the run to the
point of Middle Vernon was still 5kms or so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first message was saying it had sent, so we were a
little happier, that atleast someone knew where we were aiming for, we added an
updated message for the new plan and set off on our slow and steady trip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By this point the sun was throwing rediculous colours
through the clouds as it made its final decent from view. Ironically, It was
quite possibly one of the best NT sunsets I’ve ever experienced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As we made our way to Middle vernon we had accepted that our
game plan was anchor up, sleep and pester passing traffic in the morning for a
tow back to the ramp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We neared the final
corner when the electric decided that steering and motoring was too much and we
decided to call that our anchorage for the evening. Sitting in about 3 meters,
sheltered behind the island and most importantly; out of the current. We were
pretty happy with our efforts, was pretty hard to believe the distance we had
just travelled on a heavily used battery and one that had failed to start the
main motor. (wish I had the track from the GPS as a photo, but it was unplugged
or turned off mostly till dark as a result of our battery changes etc.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The next message to get through at 2136 then none until 0318</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> James switched on his
phone as a last minute though to grab some contacts from mine which was well
below 5% now. Through pure fluke with timing, there was a tiny window of decent
reception where a 1 minute call was made and we found out there were people on
their way. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">All was good.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Shortly after this we both seemed to nodd off,
I woke up about 2 hours later, got up to get my bearings and noticed a 3</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">rd</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;">
light, where there had only been two marker lights before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Unblinking, red, with an occasional beam of white eminating
from it. Another 40 minutes passed, while they moved up the island from where
we had intended to reach to our actual location.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Estimate we traveled about 12.5 kms on the electric</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The crew from the Volunteer Coast Guard were lovely,
offering us water and asking how we were before getting underway with us in
tow. Slow and steady to the mouth of leaders creek, where our friends (Eugene
and Matty) had made it to, waiting to tow us the rest of the way. The rest of the trip
was pretty uneventful, with most of us crashing out from being over tired. As I
pulled into my driveway after unhooking the boat from the car, my alarm (set
from the previous day) started to go off. 24hrs. Geez. The sleep that followed
was glorious, only to be topped by the motor kicking over first turn of the key
with a new battery. Knowing the battery
was to blame and there was nothing we could have done on the water was quite a
relief, even though it changes nothing<i> (I’ve since been given a jump pack,
hopefully I’ll never have to use it)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This whole experience would not have been anywhere near as
pleasant if it wasn't for my deckys “Mr Chipper” attitude, although at times it
was a little too positive, it definitely made the whole experience more
tolerable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks again to those who helped, whatever part you all
played, it was appreciated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The take away message from all this, </span><i><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">don’t set off your
EPIRB unless you’re in </span>imminent<span style="font-family: inherit;"> danger</span></b></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and maybe </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">some VHF infrastructure up
here would lead to more people carrying and using them. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Check your EPIRB regularly and keep all the safety gear dry in-date and </span>serviceable<span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last but not least.... <b>JOIN THE COASTGUARD</b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15373233981803439467noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-33283137316013026372016-12-02T17:11:00.004+09:302016-12-03T13:52:44.325+09:30WHAT A SCUMBAG ACT BY SOME DIPSHIT<h2 style="text-align: justify;">
<b><i>I really have been lucky up to now.</i></b></h2>
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I arrived at Crab Claw the other day at 3 am at 6 am I got up to find someone had got into my vehicle and removed a whole bunch of fishing gear tools etc.<br />
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Whilst most of the gear was relatively easy to replace fly's, tools, lines,etc there are some specialised items that are not,I would appreciate everyone out there keep an ear to the ground for the following<br />
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Photo by Steve's son Dustin Huff, wasn't my fish unfortunatly<br />
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<b>2 Tibor reels with S/A tropical wet tips on them one Black with my name on it and one gold without.</b></div>
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<b>Two silver Scientific Angler reels 8/9 models again with the same lines on them.</b><br />
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<b>2 Sage TCR's one 8wgt one 9wgt. in black tubes.</b><br />
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This is the first time in 18 yrs I have lost anything at Crab Claw,<br />
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<i><b>one of the Tibors was a gift from Steve Huff and Ted Jucarsik had my name engraved on it.</b></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: medium;"> Steve Huff, Ted Jucarsik and Graeme in the Everglades</b></td></tr>
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They are items that are not common and maybe they will stuff up trying to unload them.<br />
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My Mobile 0412481592<br />
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Cheers GraemeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14290332743647044152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-77526902880122540952016-11-13T11:53:00.004+09:302016-11-13T11:53:58.887+09:30WHEN IS IT TOO HOT?Conversations with Graeme Williams from <a href="http://www.insightflyfishing.com.au/">Insight</a> over the last few weeks and then fishing with him over the last few days has only confirmed to us that the barra 'dont like the hot water'. Graeme has always said that once its over 32 C they can close down, click on the links see <a href="http://flyfishersmobnt.blogspot.com.au/search?q=the+game+plan">The Game Plan</a> and <a href="http://flyfishersmobnt.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/west-arnhem-land-on-tropic-paradise.html">West Arnhemland </a>. It appears to be only the barra that slow, because the salmon and pelagics were still active.<br />
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What we have found is that the water is often the coolest and <i><b>below the dreaded 32 C</b></i> on the first tides after the start of the neaps, when the water hasn't gone too shallow over the flats to let the sun warm it up too much. Alternatively we found the barra on the <i><b>incoming tide</b></i> as cooler water flooded over parts of the flats. But you have to find that flat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 57cm being released in the shade and deeper (cooler??) water</td></tr>
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On this tide below we found the fish early in the morning just before the low and they were still up on the flats under the mangroves. What we did notice too is that there were a lot of small sharks up in that shade and cooler water too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not much flow on this tide, but the fish were in the mangroves, lower tide next day, they left the flats for places unknown as the water went up 2 C.</td></tr>
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Of course when they are in the mangroves, you have to get in under the branches, then run the gauntlet of a million mangrove roots, weed guards are essential and I would think that this type of fishing is almost fly only, except for maybe those small rubber weedless lures if you fish the <i><b>darkside</b></i>.<br />
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Of course you also need a guru to keep a lookout for the fish too....<br />
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The water looks clear in these photos but in fact it was quiet cloudy from the wind, it's hard to believe, but if we moved out from this protected flat it was blowing a mini gale.<br />
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We were using intermediate sink tip lines with floating running line, different manufacturers, but both with the shorter 30 foot or so head. Graeme had one with welded loops, something neither of us trust, and it began to peel off the main line after a couple of good runs. So he tied a good nail not over it and no worries. Luckily it was the front loop, but in the past we have had the back loop peel off the main line and open, after a few good runs on the backing. Lost the whole line. Apparently loops are better made now, but you need to keep and eye on them to see if they come apart.<br />
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The heat not only affects the barra apparently, yes it was hot out there, but after 10.30am the two old boys were complaining that they were melting and would end up <b><i>being a greasy spot on the floor</i></b> of the boat, so we heading back in so they could have a 'Nanna Nap' in the airconditioning. I could have stayed out there, but the G and T's on the verandah were very very nice.<br />
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<br />FLY FISHINGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11823129764508178996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-71568300529292728602016-11-12T19:47:00.000+09:302016-11-13T07:51:28.943+09:30The Saratoga and Legend of Goose Creek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first time I came across a Saratoga was in the 1988 Barra Classic held as was usual in those days on Corroboree Billabong, Dotty and I were guest entrants, on the first day travelling downstream we came across a well known identity holding a Saratoga up and clubbing it to death, I thought thats not very nice,but<br />
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the Saratoga was not a target and most fishers gave it as much due respect as a catfish,I discovered during the 5 days (never again entered that competition) that you could catch them around lily pads and to me they were just amazing creatures.<br />
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One evening Alex Julius said to me that there was a place on Melville Island and a creek named Goose that flowed fresh and there were lots up in the top reaches,fortunately my adopted Tiwi mother Miena came from that country Alex Dotty and I flew there and caught a few with flyrods, in clear water they would follow 15 metres and smash you. I made an agreement with the Traditional Owners that we would protect, respect and market this species and Goose Creek as a fly only river.<br />
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Goose Crk became as Harro wrote later the first non Salmanoid river closed to only Flyfishing, Alex wrote it up as the cover above shows and Harro brought lefty Kreh out to film "The New Frontier" . The Legendary Saratoga of Goose Creek was created, we serviced the destination with Helicopters from Barra Base and many National and international Identity's came using the weed guarded Dalhberg Divers that suddenly became useful .</div>
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Unfortunately in the years after we left new owners introduced lures into the equation,I haven't been back in 25 years but on the main land the good news was that a small band of fly fishers started to target the vast Lily pad systems of the NT Billabongs the Saratoga became a great competitive species to pursue that was virtually unpalatable and therefore protecting its future.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14290332743647044152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-47166018464548997572016-11-06T14:55:00.002+09:302016-11-06T14:55:30.823+09:30MISSING PERSON - MOJO - LOCATED AT THE VERNONS.Over the past few fishing outings, <b><i>Mojo</i></b> was lost, hard fishing and not many of them. But, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Mojo,</i> was located the other day at the Vernon Islands. Left at arse crack early (very dark) with Matty Davis from Leaders Creek. Weather was perfect, thanks to <i style="font-weight: bold;">Odin </i>......<br />
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Have only been to the Vernons once before and it was Matty's first trip. My last trip was good, but this time it was unbeleiveable. Fish, and good ones everywhere and <b><i>Mojo</i></b> was there too...<i><b>some of </b></i><b><i>the fish were unstoppable</i></b>...shreading the leaders on reefs...most we think were trevally..but there where huge barracuda, (for Canadian Pete...they're like Pike Pete)..longtoms well well over a metre that were irridescent green in the water...Queenies...some really big ones, but the smaller ones, around 60-65cm got to the flies first. <br />
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While we were on the top of the North Vernon we heard what sounded like rushing water and thought that the tide was rushing in, but when we got around the corner, there were schools of metre plus <i style="font-weight: bold;">Milkies </i>swimming with their mouths open slurping up anything that was in the wind lanes. Guess who never had any bloody Milkie flies!!!!! AGAIN<br />
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Just on flies, we used mainly sparse bucktail clousers on 2/0 hooks, it was interesting that the ones with the blue DNA centre had hits all the time, while those with just a silver centre had hits, but not as many, the blue/sea foam centre seemed to attract them a lot more.<br />
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<b><i><u>Note for next trip</u></i></b>.....take <b>Milkie flies</b>, take note of <b>tides</b> so that you don't have to sit, stuck, 150 yards from the boat ramp with a horrible black sky approaching...missed us luckily, and most importantly of all.....<b><i>don't lose Mojo again.</i></b><br />
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Again we joined Duane Trouchet from DNA Barra Fishing and his clients on board the Tropic Paradise a very comfortable powered Catamaran.<br />
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<b><i> Golden Trevally off a shallow Mini Mini flat</i></b><br />
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<b><i> Not many Threadfin but good quality</i></b><br />
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It became pretty obvious when we started fishing that the shallow water temperatures were too high 32/33 degrees that meant some of my favourite "drift of dreams style flats" had very little Barra or Threadfin on them,some but mostly reluctant feeders.<br />
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<b><i> Deeper water produced a different result when it came to size</i></b><br />
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I have raised the reason in other posts many times and it doesn't change, when temperature goes up the dissolved oxygen level goes down, add rain (effectively distilled water) and you have a situation they do not like. I discussed this a lot with Dwayne, he specialises in big Barra and his focus is on where they are and <b><i>that wont be in the hot shallows</i></b>. During the week he found some very nice fish and he, like me believes that drains on the shallows that you would fish when its 40 cms try blind casting in it when its over a metre.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Overall we were down in numbers but enough to have plenty of encounters, strangely the big Queenfish were there but not inclined </span><span style="text-align: center;">to eat all the same great fun, as for Flys Wayno's (Sunrise to Sunset) was a good generic choice along with a few other's Silver and White clouser's in 1/0 and 2/0 handled the pelagic's.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Had my new <b><i>Scott 8 wt meridian</i></b> with me and both Craig and I could see its value as a shallow flats rod, he mainly uses the <b><i>9 wt Sage Salt</i></b> also a great rod.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Cheers Graeme</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14290332743647044152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-13888975351322223012016-10-21T12:44:00.001+09:302016-10-21T16:10:05.625+09:30The Cast the Strike<br />
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I'm watching, the Barra is a sitting duck all 80cms just laying there 7m's away,first cast short, I'm thinking <i><b>"never aim at the fish"</b></i>, second cast 2m's to the right and behind, I'm thinking "not much practise here", third cast straight over the top and was drawn into the fish's side who decided there is no evident threat and swam off.<br />
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Next fish bit smaller slowly drifting off the flat first cast 3 mts in front and level, the Barra by the time it got anywhere near the fly saw us turned around and went back the way it came from.<br />
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Third fish,first cast not even in the same postcode ! second cast I'll be buggered perfect as it was drawn past the Barra ate it and spat it out again, blank look from me to my client who said "I didn't feel a thing" I said, " neither did he".<br />
Persisting on next Barra and excusing the first 3 casts details finally got it right, again coming across the strike zone perfect, I said expect him to eat it, it did and the <b><i>rod shot skywards</i></b> the Barra jumped once and gone.<br />
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This is my life for a very many guiding days and when someone says how did you go my comment is usually,".. caught a few scared a few".<br />
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Now this is not over critical but purely observation, this is experience and is often what you get when you dont get what you want.<br />
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There are two casts for Barra the right one and everything else if its not in the strike zone forget it.<br />
Knowing that when it is in the strike zone expect them to eat it .When its mouth opens in goes your "you beaut" fly when it shuts out it goes, not the other way around <b><i>they implode whatever they eat by opening their mouth and expelling it when they shut it all in one movement.</i></b><br />
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What Fly? Take your pick but get it right on the cast<br />
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<b><i>Lift strikes in saltwater do not usually work</i></b> hooks are much larger and barbed and need to penetrate you will not do that over the slightest bend in a flyrod. Strike with your stripping hand and stick it in.<br />
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Someones idea of a joke<br />
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For the next week I'm off to the Mini Mini Endalgut Island system one of my favourite places to guide on the <a href="http://topendseafaris.com.au/">Tropic Paradise</a>. <b><i>Will file a report when I get back.</i></b><br />
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Cheers GraemeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14290332743647044152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-61483604364974585722016-10-13T18:14:00.002+09:302016-10-13T18:14:51.749+09:30CULLEN BAY CURSE?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been a while since we have spent so much time fishing in Darwin Harbour, Bynoe has been our main base for the past few years, but circumstances have us doing short trips now into Darwin and rediscovering our old fishing spots. One thing that has really changed in Darwin is the skyline....with the Inpex plant monstrosity over on our old fishing spots at Catalina Creek...you just have to wonder how they could have even considered putting that ugly place there..madness.<br />
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Anyway, once you get past all the new bits and pieces in that part of the harbour, weed reef and west arm are still magnificent places with the beautiful city skyline in the background. <br />
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We started fishing over in the crystal clear water along the edge of little west arm, hoping for a red tag barra but didn't see any, even without red tags. Plenty of trevally, some big goldies and massive queenies cruising the flats and hunting the smaller fish. The trevally were around 30cm and there were plenty of them. Here is a typical catch, but have a closer look and you will see a mark on it's side. That was where a huge queenie T barred it. There were so many of these we decided to crush the barbs on the hook. That might have been the wrong thing to do?<br />
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Those big queenies continued to chase the trevally and presented a couple of opportunities to sight cast at a couple of them as they put their bow waves across the shallows. I managed to get one of them to take a pink and white clouser about three inches long. OMG didn't that cause a panic. I have caught a lot of good queenies over a metre in the past but this was the most acrobatic and biggest I have ever hooked. Roggie said it was at least 120. It took me to the backing twice, and at one stage I thought that it might spool me, the line was going a million miles an hour towards Darwin and it was jumping in the opposite direct. Typical queenie. After a good fight, we thought it was done and managed to fish it, bit by bit back to the boat. It had jumped about four times and you could see how huge it was, but right at the boat, it came out of the water about six foot away and sprayed us with water, then it decided to run under the boat, bugger. Managed to get it out and nearly to the net, but it must have seen Roggie....it shook its head and threw the hook. What did I do....guess....sat down and cried for half an hour.<br />
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But the weather was so beautiful, so while I was having my debrief over the queenie, Roggie took us for a long ride to calm me down. We ended up out from Cullen Bay where we found birds working in a couple of spots. There were bait balls coming up now and then with heaps of small mackerel chasing them. I sacrificed that fly that had lost the big queenie to the first mac that bit it off while Roggie was making up small wire traces for the other flies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was typical of the smaller macs </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another ...all around 55cm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They loved this little fly...about 4cm with an 'all clear' head and 6cm trace.</td></tr>
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We got sick of chasing the small macs. even though there were tuna or bigger fish under them, you could not get the fly down past them, so we moved a bit closer to the Cullen Bay sand bar where, in 2006 I got by PB tuna and broke my TFO rod. <i><b>This was the last time I had broken a rod.</b></i><br />
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We were around the same spot that I hooked my tuna when Roggie said theres' big fish under the boat, and there was a school of larger macs, just swinging around the boat, some were huge, but most appeared to be around 80cm. The best we got was an 82 cm. Cast in with my 9wt BVK and hooked up almost immediately. I don't think the fish new it was hooked, didn't run until it got near the boat and then it took off. Got it back to the boat and thought it was done but as Roggie was about to net it, the fish decided to make a quick dive. Smashed my rod against the boat and the second piece became three pieces as it shattered. Then the bloody fish came up to the top and let us net it. <i><b>Another broken rod ...Cullen bay curse?????</b></i><br />
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Great fun...<br />
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FLY FISHINGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11823129764508178996noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-80839926354653530672016-10-02T08:34:00.001+09:302016-10-02T08:52:13.497+09:30GAVIN DAVIS'S BALL CHINIAN FLYA couple of the boys have been tying a fly which is a bit like a bendback pattern with a keel of ball sinkers.....from what I can find out, it is a fly created by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gavin.davis.583?fref=ts">Gavin Davis</a> of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FlyJunkies/info/?entry_point=about_section_header&tab=page_info">Flyjunkies</a> and it has been working really well with the barra. The boys have tied a bit smaller version and the barra have been taking them when the ever reliable clouser has been ignored. Though on another day, who knows. Going to tie up a few variations to try over the next few months.<br />
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Looks like a great dredging fly too for the deep water????<br />
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This is one of a 'Son of Cowan' flies that works on the barra......<br />
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here is the <a href="http://www.saltwaterflyfishing.com.au/board/threads/ball-chinian.14298/">Ball Chinian</a> tying instructions courtesy of Gavin Davis the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FlyJunkies/info/?entry_point=about_section_header&tab=page_info">Flyjunkies</a>....and the <a href="http://www.saltwaterflyfishing.com.au/board/threads/ball-chinian.14298/">Saltwater Fly Fishing group</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; color: #141414; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">Topped with black, a few stripes and the keel tied off with 2 ball sinkers plus a double mono weed guard...</span></td></tr>
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<br />Roger Bassetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11082817889458672569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-39012958579428152122016-10-01T17:20:00.000+09:302016-10-01T17:37:25.177+09:30"Bugger - No Bling!"<h2>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">1<sup>st</sup> October = Million Dollar Fish time.</span></span></h2>
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water and plenty of Barra to throw a bunch of feathers at.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ended up with three in the boat all sight cast to just as
the water dropped out of the mangroves. All in the same size range 52cms – 54cms
and none with Red “bling” on to liven up the day. Maybe next time!</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A 5ft hammerhead shark off East Boat Ramp very angry about
me trying to remove his Trevally neighbour. Trevor never saw the deck carpet!!</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep the photos coming in for the number of species for “How High Can We Fly??”</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember; “You’ll never never know, if you never never go.
Get out there and fish!”</span><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Tight lines</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Jim Churchley</span></span></h2>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12063993844300164984noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475403852010508590.post-25057362237119129562016-09-18T17:43:00.000+09:302016-09-18T17:43:37.988+09:30Tough day out to the Vernon IslandsA plan was hastily made on Friday morning to fish the Vernon Islands. I had never been there, but had of course heard great things about the area. The boat was packed and gear checked and double checked on Friday night.<br />
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It was a beautiful morning, we'd launched by around 7:00AM and were on our way. Outside the mouth of Leaders Creek and there was barley any wind at all, the sea was calm, but the current was roaring along between the south and north islands. We spotted some frigates and petrels, under the birds we found a fast moving current line with upwellings and a back-eddy. Along that line bait fish were being rounded up and taken by some big mackerel. It felt like a really promising start to a great day. Tony hooked up first. Initially we'd thought mackerel, but it wasn't fighting like a mac. </div>
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We followed this fish around for a while. It took at least 20 minutes and perhaps half and hour before we saw Tony's leader again. Somehow out of a school of mackerel and tuna Tony had managed to catch a GT.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The uneducated GT hadn't realised that was a mackerel fly!</td></tr>
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We'd lost ground on the back-eddy and baitfish during the fight. Once we were back with them we got plenty of refusals from mackerel. I had a fly dead drifting in the water while I was mucking around trying to program the electric to keep up with the current. I started to strip in for another cast when the fly got taken and taken pretty had too. There were some big head shakes and a powerful determined run deep into the channel that saw me into the backing quickly too. Wow, I thought I was onto my first GT and I probably was, but I'll never really know. About ten minutes into the fight and after a big shake the weight was gone. I retrieved the line to find the knot had failed at the fly! By now tide had reached the top of the high and we couldn't find the bait fish again.<br />
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We pulled a number of small reefies off the fringing reef of North East Vernon Islands and watched the odd big mackerel swim past outside of casting distance. Then the wind picked up! We tried using the electric to anchor along a current line that the birds were working between the two islands but even with 80lb of thrust we were slowing losing ground. Then somehow the electric motor threw its prop, somewhere in 40m of water. No electric certainly made the rest of the day interesting.<br />
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In an effort to get out of the wind we tried the southern side of South Vernon Island. There was great structure and water flowing off the reef in small waterfalls. The wind and no electric made position the boat tricky but worse there were just no fish. Eventually we threw the reef anchor onto some rocks and held a position hoping to ambush whatever came past. Again we got refusals from mackerel. Thankfully with more luck than skill I managed a single queenfish who oddly enough appeared to have no mates.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A long way to go for a small queenie.</td></tr>
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By mid afternoon the wind was well above forecast and against the tide. It made for a long, slow, wet run back to leaders creek. Once there we had a few casts for barra. Something hit and circled my fly for a second hit. I missed the strike both times. It might have been a barra, but I told Tony and myself that it was just a really big archer fish.<br />
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It was the worth the time and fuel to see the Vernon Islands, but I wouldn't go back on such big tides again. I will take a look at the calendar and plan something for making tides sometime in the next dry season. For now it might be time to start chasing barra and threadies again. </div>
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