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featured image Borumba Dam
Located near Imbil south of Gympie Borumba Dam is unique in that it offers both great Bass and Saratoga fly fishing....
featured image Fishing, my ongoing passion
My most recent fishing project has been the development of a technique that I call Micro Baiting with Vibes. This is turning out to be an exciting type of fishing and I will detail that in a future post....
featured image My favorite 8 knots
Just behind poor fishing technique and inept netting technique the most prolific reason for fish being lost is a problem with a knot. There are more knots than you can poke a stick at that can be used in fly fishing and over time you will settle on a...
featured image Knots - surgeons knot
I have fished with a few surgeons and asked them about this knot and they certainly don't use it in the practice of their surgical art so I don't know where its name comes from. That doesn't worry me because it is simply the best knot I know off for ...
featured image Mallard and claret - Chatto's soft hackle version
One of the first loch flies I was introduced was a mallard and claret tied in a traditional way with a pair of feather slip wings. I thought it was the bees knees as a bob fly and used it any time when mayflies were around. For me this is a vastly su...
featured image Grunter
Barred and silver grunter are often by-catches when fly, bait, lure and soft plastic fishers, are targeting barramundi and mangrove jack in Central Queensland waters. They are apparently a great eating fish but my preference remains to treat them as ...
featured image Chatto's estuary fly
This fly has now accounted for bream, flathead, whiting, trevally, mullet, tailor, flounder, bass and trout. I expect it will be attractive to many other species also. Native fresh water Bass are a favourite of mine and if I could only carry one type...
featured image Lake Maroon
Lake Maroon is one of South East Queensland's best freshwater fly and surface fishing destinations It lays close to the base of the Great Dividing Range on Burnett Creek, a tributary of the Logan River. ...
featured image Albright knot
The Albright knot is my goto knot when I am fishing with rods suited to bottom baiting for offshore species....