Posts Tagged ‘Cod’

Fishing season reminders – NSW

Hopefully this small blog post will keep you in touch with the dates for fishing seasons in NSW for popular species such as bass, trout and cod.

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Slow roller

I fish these lightly weighted "slow rollers" on an intermediate or fast sink lines and a 30lb Maxima Ultra Green leader of about rod length. If you can see fish holding amongst timber put in a good cast beyond the timber and then count your line down and then work repetitive slow roly poly retrieves through the area.

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Chatto’s articulated slow roller

This is a variation of my very successful articulated swimmer and is my alternative goto fly when targeting barra in the relatively static water of Lake Awoonga and other barra impoundments. It can be fished on any line but my preference is a clear intermediate line. Retrieved with a slow roly poly or a long draw the fly has a nice shoulder role from side to side.

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NSW – Fishing season reminders

Closed seasons for popular fresh water species in NSW for 2018.

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Articulated swimmer – Qantas colours with rattle

If your targeting Barramundi this is great prospecting fly for both fresh and salt tropical waters. It's dressed in popular Qantas colours of red head and white body that is popular with so many barra type hard body and soft plastic type lures. With an overall length of a size from 9 cm to 15cm these are big flies for big fish so I suggest that you fish them on a #10 weight outfit.

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