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The first 5 team members will all fish on the first day. I'll will replace the lowest scoring team member from the first day on the second day. The team fishing for the third day will be determined by the team captain based on performance during the...
Lake Fyans – westen districts
Lake Fyans is located near Halls Gap and Stawell roughly circular in shape and roughly 4 kilometres east to west and 4.5 kilometres north to south giving it an area of around 1400 hectares and is located in the shadow of the Grampians in the western...
AFTMA fly line ratings
Line Rating —- Line weight —- range for line rating 12 weight | 380 grains | 368 – 392 grains 11 weight | 330 grains | 318 – 342 grains 10 weight | 280 grains | 270 – 290 grains 9 weight | 240 grains | 230 – 250 gr...
Fuzzy nymph
If your only going to carry one nymph pattern this is the one. Whilst this nymph is not tied to represent the nymphal (sub imago or pupa) stage of any specific insect it is a good buggy looking fly and readily accepted by trout....
Black and peacock
Spider type flies like the Black and Peacock are very buggy and suggestive flies. Weather being used as a polaroiding fly, a static wet, one of the flies in a team of loch style flies, or a fly to cover rising fish spider type soft hackle flies may b...
TBH cheeky
This as a good buggy looking fly that has the advantage of having its hot spot on each side of the fly. I like to fish it on my top dropper as an "anchor fly" with one or two lighter flies below....
Polaroiding nymph
As the name implies this fly has been designed with polaroiding in mind. Its also a great fly for covering rising fish ... particularly if mayfly are around. It's unlike all the other nymphs that I tie in that it is tied with as little extra weight ...
Foetal caddis grub
My preferred colours are light brown, light olive and hares ear each with slightly darker thoraxes and sand with a touch of orange or pink. All are tied with olive backs and heavily weighted so that they get down to where the fish are sitting....
Bibio variant
Whilst the Bibio fly may have been originally designed as a blow fly representation it has found its place as a great top dropper fly in lakes where fish are midge feeders. That of course begs the question do fish take them as midges, or do they take...
Dunkeld fuzzeled variant – Chatto’s original
The Dunkeld is certainly one of my top 5 middle dropper flies for lock style fly fishing. Until 18 months ago I was using a version of the Dunkeld that had a hackle Palmered along the body as in the original. At that time I was experimenting with "fu...
 

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