Brown Trout Guide
Wild brown trout are the fish that keep me coming back. They are cagey, they reward a careful angler, and stalking them in shallow water is some of the finest trout fishing anywhere in the Snowy Mountains and Tasmania.
Stalking and sight fishing
Browns love the shallows, and that is where we hunt them. We move quietly along the margins looking for tailing fish nosing into the weed, or cruisers working a beat close in. It is patient, deliberate fishing, one good cast to a fish you have already found beats a hundred blind ones.
Get it right and a wild brown will turn, follow and take, right in front of you. Get it wrong and it is gone. That is exactly what makes it so good.
Polaroiding in Tasmania
Over summer we head to the Central Highlands, where the shallow lagoons like Penstock and the wild waters out towards the Western Lakes country are made for polaroiding. On a bright day with the light behind us, we walk the shallows and spot browns cruising the sand and weed, then cast ahead of them and watch the take.
It is demanding, visual fishing, and landing a wild Tasmanian brown that you have stalked on foot is a memory that sticks.
Seasons, on fly and lure
The browns feed to what is about. Early and late we fish midge in the calm, through the warmer months the mudeye migration brings fish up on dusk, and on hot, windy summer days the hopper fishing along grassy edges can be brilliant. I read the season and match the fishing to it.
Most of this is done on fly, but if you prefer to cast lures we can stalk and cover the same water just as effectively. Either way, the aim is the same, a wild brown found, fooled and landed.
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