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Brogo Reservoir
Opened in 1976 Brogo Dam was created by damming the Brogo River with concrete faced compacted rock dam wall. It has an uncontrolled unlined rock spill way which unfortunately allows fish to escape down the brogo river when the lake overflows but does...
Slovenia
Slovenia is host to the 2012 World fly Fishing Championships. The Australian selected by Fly Fish Australia Inc is as follows: Vern Barby Rick Sunderland Brian Hughes Lubin Pfiffer John Fisher Stephen Chatterton The first 5 team members will all fish...
Gladstone
There are many rivers and creeks surrounding Gladstone, as well as a couple of close by dams, many of which offer great fishing. Gladstone is a major Queensland city located approximately 550 kilometres by road north of Brisbane and 100 kilometres so...
Wet flies
A wet fly is a fly designed to be fished below the water's surface of the water or a dry fly that has been drowned and is being fish below the surface of the water and they fall into two main classes....
Ant – Chatto’s original Palmered ant
If it's a hot day, a warm balmy night, if water is rising over previously dry ground or almost any time for that matter you can get huge hatches of ants. They vary in colour but the dominant hatches are of black meat ants and banded sugar ants....
Royal coachman wet – Chatto’s version
One of the first wet flies tied was the coachman and that consisted of just a black body and a a set of white hackle slip wings. Over time flies have evolved and one path the coachman took was the substitution of a "royal" body for the simple black b...
Ant – black
If it's a hot day, a warm balmy night, if water is rising over previously dry ground or almost any time for that matter you can get huge hatches of ants. They vary in colour but the dominant hatches are of black meat ants. When the fish are feeding o...
Straggle fritz bugger
'I switched to a slime line and put a Black Straggle Fritz Taddy on the point, kept the Damsel on the dropper and, due to the weed, discarded the top dropper completely. At the end of one retrieve I had a cracking take on the hang and bullied a near ...
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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