Meppstas

Here's a photo of Dave with one of the many large wild browns he catches in the Tyenna River.... makes me green with envy, may have to go South for a weeks fishing I reckon..

Here's a few pic's of wild brown trout on the spawning run at the weir on the Tyenna River in the South of Tasmania.. Photos are by Tyenna Dave and I thank him for allowing me to share them with you all on the site.. Dave is one of the great trout fisho's in the South whether it be on the fly or lure fishing..

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Adrian

I heard the Daiwa were not producing the Gekkabijin Yoguri lure any more, well the small ones that I use any way which are the 4F models (42mm/ 2gm) floating hard body lures. So I rang Daiwa Australia to confirm it and they said "That's correct, they're being discontinued and they have 15 left in stock. If want them I'd have to be quick and get hold of a Daiwa seller and get them to get them in for me. Well I was quickly on the phone and was lucky enough to get twelve of the Ghost Brown ones that I use from Daiwa.. so i do have some nice trout lures to see me out for a while proving I don't get busted off too often like I did towards the end of the trout season when I lost two in two trips, then broke the bib of the only surviving ghost brown one. Now what's left of them are probably in tackle shops around the country..These were selling from $17-95 to $22-95 each and I picked them up for $11-95 ea which I was very happy with.. also came with free postage too.. 

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Adrian

The last 12 available from Daiwa..

 more fungi from a trip to Loongana and a very small cluster of them inside of a hollow  retaining wall block at home.. note the slug in there with them. I didn't notice it until I trimmed the photo..

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Adrian

One lonely fungi at Loongana..

Small fungi at home..

I think  that's what they call a blue gill Barney.. I know they're often caught when Bass fishing in the States..

Excellent photo as usual Adrian, just after seeing yours I got this from a mate in the US, he took it at sunset while fishing in his "pond", that is his house on the left.

 

Wow!! great photo, his fishing pond, love to have that one in the back yard..

Here's a few photos from this morning as the weather changed from clear skies early before sunrise here in Sheffield..

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Adrian

Sunrise at Sheffield..

Morning mist as the weather moves in..

Weather moving in from the North West.

Heavy cloud building up fast..

That's come up a treat wilda, those 150 mm juvenile rainbows will grow quickly in there too, they'll fatten up nicely over the next two years..

Make sure you have a solid mess grid at the overflow to stop them going over if & when it fills and spills..

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Adrian

Any platypus in those quiet creeks?

 

Ripper photo btw...! a brighter day would have enhanced the colours... "ya shooda waited!..."

Thanks guys, yes quite often come across them in the rivers.. here's one from the Mersey River when I was fishing, it sat there until I took it's photo then moved off.

It's really great to see them when fishing the rivers, I've had them swim between my legs on several occasions, I just remain motionless so they don't notice any movement.

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Adrian 

Here's pic I took the other day while fishing a small river.. it's a real mirror image.. just a shame it was a dull overcast day..

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Adrian

The top photo of a thistle seed head (or what ever you'd call it)  was taken quite some time ago in a paddock as I was heading to a river.. the thing is the following two photos taken this morning while heading through the paddocks once again to a river are of the same type of thistle.. 

What I didn't know was that on cool mornings they are closed.. learn something new every day don't we..     photo taken with my trusty fishing Canon SX150IS compact camera..

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Adrian

This photo was taken back in 2013

And this morning at 10:05 am at Meander..

The old pliers surgery is always great fun isnt it? I do need to find a decent pair of forceps for my trout fishing at some point. Just havent found any I like more than the pliers

I picked up a few pairs of bent nose ones on Ebay from the USA, they make it so much easier to remove the hooks from trout than my bent nose pliers..

I still use the pliers for tweaking my spinners as well as plucking the trebles hooks out on my fingers etc..  

Give the barbless ones a go AR, no harm in trying them at all... 

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Adrian

It's all part of the fun playing Doctor while fishing AR.. I'm use to it now and the pliers get a work out at least two to three times each trout season with me..     

 It's not all that often I have to use the "Donger" on a trout due to the trebles hooks of the spinner damaging the fish.. A pair of forceps is one of the best tools for removing them too.. The pliers are for me..

Quite a lot of the time the trout toss the lures once I have them in the net as well.. If they swallow a lure deep then damage will be done to the gills whether or not you have barbed or barbless hooks I reckon and once there's gill damage (I'm talking trout) they have to get the '' Donger " as they'll go belly up anyway. There's a lot of fisho's using barbless hooks now days, you can always try a single hook on a lure too instead of trebles..

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Adrian

Did it just for you too doobie..   

Here you go, managed to get 90 minutes in the river late this afternoon while Pam rested..

took the selfie with the Spotters Fury sunglass & strap as well as wearing the Spotters cap while making my way past a fallen tree in the river. (report yet to come)..

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Adrian

Just love it, and the shirt fits too..     What about the sunnies.. "Fury Black"  what's one of the main spinners I use.. "Black Fury"  omen or what..

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Adrian

Well I just received my Spotters Prize Pack in the mail today and what a great prize it is.. Great pair of Spotters Fury Black - Halide  sun glasses, sun glasses hold fast (so I don't lose them) a beautiful Spotters

t-shirt, Spotters baseball cap and a ripper car sunshade all of these prizes will be put to very good use too. Thanks again to  " SPOTTERS & STRIKE & HOOK " for putting up the prizes for the month of March & also I'm wrapped I won the March Spotters Comp.

Can't wait to find a bit of time to hit a river and give the spotters a go, plus I'll wear the cap and take a selfie too..

So guys get your April reports going and don't forget to take your camera with you too as photos always go well with any  fishing report..

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Adrian

Great Spotters Prize Pack.

Good one doobie...     There is actually a trout fly that looks like a bee KS.. I don't have one though, I do tie a black wooly bugger on my line above the lure every so often and that will catch a trout every now and then..

black Wooly bugger..

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Bee type flies..

projoe, the Bumble Bees rarely sting anyone I've had them land on me and they're never a problem, the do sound like a B-17 Bomber though as they're really noisy buggers.. European wasps are what annoy me as they're every where here now days.. have been stung a couple of times by them, March flies are even worse they just don't let up keep on coming until I whack them with the hat. Then there's those pesky little flies that get blown over here from the mainland with a strong Northerly wind, They're keep landing on the face & they drive me absolutely crazy when in a river from January through to March or until we get a good frost. Once we have a frost that knocks them over. Still could be worse, the snakes could all take up swimming in rivers I suppose, though I do see the odd Tiger snake crossing the river from time to time..

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Adrian 

Finally we have had a bit of rain here today and it's brought the bees out collecting honey, Bumble Bees & native bees were busy on a variety of plants a while ago..

I had time to get a few quick pic's before the rain moved in again.. hoping we get a lot more to give the rivers a lift and bring the trout on.. 

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Adrian

Bumble bees...

Native bee... head buried into Banksia..

Common bees..

Rain clouds.. great to see..

Adrian, you do realise that as part of the prize pack you will have to take one of your selfies in one of the trout rivers showing off the Spotters and the 'very cool cap'

 

(It's in the T&C's / fine print)

As soon as I get the chance to get back in a river doobie, I'll definitely do that too..        They prize package is on it's way down to Tassie at this very moment..

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Adrian

Tonight's sunset, not sure if it's as good as last nights.. plenty of orange colour in the one tonight...

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Adrian

Thanks af, I took seven photos over eight minutes as it was setting.. each one was a little different each time..

"crepuscular rays"  that's the first I've heard of them, thanks for the info on that.. 

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Adrian

The Autumn sunsets are back, this is always the best time of year for some ripper sunsets... took these tonight.. (5-4- 2017)

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Adrian

Thanks for the good wishes guys, it's very much appreciated.. 

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Adrian

Wow!!  Just found this out, thanks to Spotters for putting up the prize and also strike & hook in picking my report as the March winner.. It's very much appreciated, thank you Bjorn for selecting my report..

They will be put to very good use inn the rivers down here in Tassie.. 

PM about to be sent to you..

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Adrian