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Here's the video of the fishing report "Great spin session with 22 trout caught & released" Sorry about my reporting of how the day went the end, the Northerly wind was howling at 30 plus KPH.. cheers Adrian

That's exactly what I thought too when I came across it.. never saw or heard anything like it back in all the years I fished the Port River either.. It's got to be a set up for sure..

Is this for real or what, came across it on YouTube.. it's the first time I've heard of this & find it hard to believe.. cheers Adrian

Here's parts 1 & 2 of the video taken when I had a good session in tannin waters.. it's from the article that I posted in the Interstate section on the forum..

I'm sure there will be a large amount of fisho's that turn up for the comp.. all for a good cause too. good luck to all who enter the comp, may the fishing gods be with you.. cheers Adrian

Great photos... cheers Adrian..

Barker Inlet... St Kilda side of the Island.. I've also caught Snapper there on an incoming tide at 3:00pm in the afternoon too.. cheers Adrian

All I ever used for Snapper were Tommies, used to buy then whole in 5 kg lots (or what I caught) then filleted them unscaled on the way out to where I anchored & fished for them, used the heads & guts for burley.. Had plenty of success on the Snapper with just the Tommie Ruff as bait.. A good spot was sitting off the end of the main Outer Harbor breakwater as well as the second channel marker, behind Torrens Island along the edge of the outer channel in line with the channel markers also gave up good size snapper.. always fished at night for them in those areas.. I'm going back a very

Thanks doobie, just a shame the title wasn't chasing large browns etc... cheers Adrian

Here's a six minute video I made using the video of my Canon camera a week ago, only problem is I can't get the action shots of hooking a trout with it... Still it will give you an idea of what it is like fishing a small tannin stream more so than what a photo does I suppose.. I had to put it on YouTube to get it on the site.. cheers Adrian

I used to freeze my snapper and take them to the local butcher and he cut them into cutlets for for me, all he wanted was to keep a few cutlets.. He did them at the end of the his day when he cleaned up....

Thanks lofty, the stretch of river in the third photo used to fish really well too, I here fished it twice last season and only caught five trout.. it will eventually fish much better. the only good outcome of the flood was that I can now get a lot further downstream (up to 3 kms) to what I could before the flood when it was near impossible to get through the scrub & dense foliage,,, cheers Adrian

I was up at Liena a few days ago to check the area out since they built the new bridge there after losing the old wooden bridge back in 2016.. Took a couple of photos to compare it to what is it was before the June 2016 floods.. certainly has changed and not for the better either.. will take many years to come back I feel.. though the small shrubs will come back fairly quick.. I'm really glad I take my camera with me on every trip to a river, good to look back on many areas on this river to what they were and what they are today.. plus I have photos of all the original old wood bridges th

Plenty of info on that site Vogon.. really interesting for sure and I'm sure will come in handy for quite a few site members too.. thanks for sharing it.. cheers Adrian

Have you ever purchased a lure or two, used them and caught fish on them but still felt they just needed a little extra on them.. Well it may just be me but with my trout lures I quite often think there's that little bit extra that can be done with a lure.. Not all lures, just the odd one here and there.. I have these nice little Greed Guts lures and they work well on the trout but I felt I could add that extra to them.. all I did was get a fine pointed tooth pick and dob a few little red dots on each side of the lure. Now they look like small wild brown trout & I feel much happi

Lovely brown and well deserved.. the wind can certainly be a pain in the butt at times, well worth putting up with when you catch a fish though.. cheers Adrian..

We've actually had it fairly dry here in Sheffield so far this Winter.. hoping for some good rains over the next week or two.. 22 days left to the opening of the 2018-19 brown trout season.. Rainbow season opens about 5 weeks after the brown season opens, they spawn later than the browns.. late July & through August.. cheers Adrian

They're nice browns for sure, well done.. trout fishing has it ups and downs, they can be quite hungry this time of year too fattening up throughout the winter, should have just about finished spawning now too.. cheers Adrian

No I'm in now living in Tasmania (since March2000) , this fish was taken on a wild bait hard body.. I only spin fish for trout.. Did try the fly fishing around 45+ yrs ago but went back to the spin fishing the rivers.. Started my trout fishing the rivers in Sth Aust 54 years ago.. South Aust is one of the hardest states to catch trout in and that's what helped make me a better trout fisho.. cheers Adrian

Lovely fish and well done on the PB.. you'd be surprised how large trout will get to in small rivers & streams that's for sure.. cheers Adrian This little creek gave up the trout below back in 2016.. it was released back in the river after a quick photo..

Here's a short video clip of me spin fishing a small tannin stream close to home... forgot I even had it so put it on YouTube.. cheers Adrian..

Well it's like this, I have to do something to pass the time of day away until the trout season opens doobie.. cheers Adrian

Beautiful morning here today with clear skies and full sun.. noticed the mist rolling off Black Bluff early so grabbed a couple of photos before heading off again this afternoon chasing Fungi at O'Neil's Creek.. Pretty dismal day in the rainforest as the fungi was like finding hen's teeth.. I did manage to come across three different fungi and that was it, nothing to rave about either. The first one was at the base of a tree, the second was a funny looking yellow one that was among some rotting leaves,. The last was a small cluster that I spotted on a small branch near some ferns..

I was sitting in my fishing room working on my hand written dairies ( rewriting them into the computer ) from when I first moved to Tassie when I spotted these yellow tailed black cockatoos in one of my Banksia shrubs in the back yard. One of them flew off with a seed pod as I took one of the photos.. The photos were taken with my little fishing camera.. didn't have time to grab the bigger & better Canon 700D.. So slipped the back door open just enough as not to spook them and managed to get a few photos of them before they spotted me.. which they did when I opened the door a little

I think you & lofty need to get a few Coopers Ales in you and toughen up... getting soft guys... cheers Adrian