jimmy72

the tweed course should be easy there is a walk way along the river right next to the course, no need to jump a fence -- i'll send you a map via pm with exactly where i saw loads of bream, its very close to the edge of the course ... around dusk you'd probably have little threat of golf balls hitting you or getting chased off. i think all ponds would be connected via pipes so if there is fish in some there'd be fish in all. i guess i saw so many the bream in one cause it was only a few feet with only one spot where you couldn't see the bottom

the bream were in the tweed course, the tell tale bubbles of tarpon in one of the others ( we drinking most days so its all a bit hazy, but tweed was the first day straight off the plane) amazed how many bream is such small shallow water, and the little prawns in there, it was very interesting. think there were big real big carp in the water on the 2nd or third hole at the glades

na played south port the glades, lakelands and tweed - some decent bream in some of the lakes on the courses and what i think were decent sized tarpon, also saw plenty prawns in one place with bream schooling them up ;-)

awesome work mate, i was up your way 2 weeks back on a golf trip and stinging for fish, i hadnt see this post bugger or i would have employed your guiding services !

Let's do an early one next week what day can you do

went out for an early yesterday looking for surface fish on fly, nothing much happening except a few sporadic boils from frigates who wouldn't let a us get close, we searched far and wide, and only found seagulls sitting on the surface looking bored waiting for something to happen , just like us. We decided to head home and so i could get to work , and then we thought we'd check a marker or two, and low and behold we found them. we lost maybe 6 to the marker or bottom and landed a 3 or 4 just under and over legal before i released that time does fly when you are having fun !.... oh what fun kings on fly are , even when they brick you !!! got to work late but the boss was ok when he saw the photos of the mornings adventure 9wt rod intermediate line (had to cast in the right spot , due to drift and tide and wait a while to get down in the eating zone though - a fast sink would have been better, quicker, but i was too lazy to change lol 15lb and then 20lb tippets (still no match for encrusted markers and rocks) flies clousers (which i normally don't like but was easier than changing line , i usually prefer to fish neutral buoyancy flies and change the line from float to fast sink to suit.) Fly colours, tan over white (you can see some bucktail stuck in the fishes teeth lol) , chartreuse over white , oh and a spinster fly green over white which a fish now has as lip jewellery moral to the story, just cause you cant see em doesn't mean they are not there and hungry ;-)

the kings would have loved that pike !

lake wallerawang has redfin -- up past lithgow

not unbelievable size ive had 3kg salmon eaten like tick tacks at my feet there... landing it is another thing though ??/

good stuff

PS thanks for the credit nick , i didnt really "invent" it... more so i used, (or is it stole lol) a couple other peoples ideas and put them in one fly white or grey BMS flies work really well on the salmon too, most fly shops stock them PPS are the salmon still around im just back form a months holiday so not sure what's going on at nth head?

That's a great grayling well done - I'm in slovenia now on holidays and caught some nice ones on fly but under 40cms I think ! Very pretty fish ! Grant

great stuff, i was going to head down there last weekend, but chose to fish north head for sambos instead.. bugger i should have made the effort - magic place - thanks for posting

nice one nick! that on the crosscurrent and torrent? if so how was the drag going after the decent fish, should had plenty more grunt? bummer about this mornings weather though! did you tie the candy ? see ya when i get back from Europe

its been months since i got the boat wet (shame), but i finally went out for a quick run Saturday morning. A bit of a sleep in with the plan to fish the run out at the heads for sambos. We were not disappointed the sambos were working hard but very fussy, scored a few on fly after i changed from a med sized surf candy to a 3ms eyes fly,my mate fishing a small SP hooked up three times; busted off once (didn't set his drag lol) and pulled the hook on two more one was def. foul hooked ( scale on the hook), and the other opened the hook, but suspect it was foul hooked as well In the end i stopped fishing and drove the boat as best i could to get my mate in the perfect spot to get a hook up, he must have put 50 casts with the SP through the right places & retrieving in the right direction for nothing. for the last 15 minutes we even tried an eyes fly 1m behind a sinker and still couldn't score, but he wasn't the only one , the other fly fishers out there got a few but the guys casting hard bodies and chucking pillies didn't seem to get anything (that i saw) mate now tells me he will be practicing his fly casting for the next few weeks and be leaving the spin gear at home ... i told him to practice casting standing on a basket ball as that's pretty much whats its like with the back wash off the rocks fun morning and home in time for lunch with a grin on my face - if your looking for some fun and singing drags get out there cheers grant