TREATING THE WIND AS YOUR FRIEND

I remember very vividly as a kid growing up in Cooma in the early 60's my old man saying "treat wind as your friend otherwise you will spend the rest of your life hating it",and that it forces you into fishing out of your comfort zone might yield unexpected results

With up to 24 knots every day I was pushed into areas that generally don't get a look, generally our target is Threadfin and Barra with the pelagics a fill in, there were enough groups of those to suffice the guiding situation anyway.

Knife Island in the wind!

The flats had good numbers, the casting was reasonable, the striking (as with most Trout Fishers) was pathetic. Saw some very good size Barra and Threadfin go begging not because they were not catchable, but because the ability to react to the presentation decisively was lacking.
At the last casting day I stressed, when you can pick up your fly line and change direction to place the fly in a fishes strike zone,without unnecessary false casts your fishing will improve out of sight.
That fact has not changed in 25 yrs of guiding.

Getting blown into fishing places I hadn't been, one such spot I discovered a new bank that had slipped in, like all such structures over the week yielded some seventy Snapper heaps of Blue Threadfin and great sized Tarpon, there were also Queenies and Trevally mixed into this, twice I had these guys achieve six of the target species mackerel not being one.

Which Fly?????

The ongoing test of Roger and Waynes  B.A.C and S.T.S flys. are still neck and neck, recently Dotty used Rogers and Wayne used his, they played seesaw for a while but Dotty cleaned up at the end with a credible Flathead. (Below)

I have to exercise some diplomacy here as I don't tie them and they do.