Jeffrey.Espiritu

Well done boys!! So wish I didnt have to go to work. Would have been good to catch up and have a fish with u guys again. Jeff

Hi Raiders, Fished Thompsons Creek Dam today with Dad. First casts were in at about 7am and approx 10 casts later I land the first fish of the day a pretty rainbow 41cm on the pink tassie devil. This fish was pretty lively for the early morning and took me for a few good jumps and runs. With a good start we had our hopes up for a hot days trout fishing....however.. it took a fair few casts before my dad is shouting out "Im on.. I just changed my lure and Im on" by the time i make my way over he has pretty much turned the fishes head and it starts to surface...it looked big!! A big male brown..his PB at 57cm and his smile made the trip all worth it!! That was the last fish for the day and we left at about 1:30pm. Only two fish but it was a top days fishin with my dad. Jeff

All fish were released to fight another day...check out how thick the shoulders are on this rainbow Another pretty rainbow My PB rainbow landed for the day 52cm

Hi Raiders, I haven't posted for a while as I have been super busy and have been unable to do some real quality fishing. However I thought I would let you guys know of my first ever fly fishing adventure and it happened a few days ago(25th Aug) while on vacation in Canada. I heard of the Bow River near Calgary being a "Blue Ribbon" Fishery and I thought this has to be a good place to learn how to fly fish and catch some fish also. Anyways I hooked up with a guide from the area and we fished drift boat style using an indicator and a combination of stone fly nymphs and worm pattern flys. Drifting/floating down the river we were able to fish countless miles for a total of about 10 hours on the water. I surpisingly picked up fly casting pretty fast but was pretty slow on striking with the slightest movements of the indicator. I still managed a total of 31 fish hooked and boated a total of 20 and apparently this was a slow day . The largest going a PB of 52cm and the average was 40cm . I had only caught 1 brown trout ever before this fishing trip and that was spin fishing in Thompsons Creek Dam ...it didnt fight that good ...but these wild river trout can fight I had a couple scream off and strip line off the fly reel at tremendous rate up stream!!. One fish took me to the backing and then some before I could start getting some line back and it was just a little above the average at 44cm. I lost one good rainbow that was easily pushing the 60cm mark. here are some pics below: Where we launched..i caught my first fish on a fly close to the bridge in the background nice brown These fish could fight!! a couple more pics to come.. I have to say a big thanks to Curtis Lawrence for teaching me the ropes of fly fishing and putting me on some quality fish. It was definitly a memorable fishing day. Jeff

Thats absolutely mad man Cant wait for the vid. Well done on another great catch on that Saltiga Jeff

Nice work Nick. Stonker bream there man!!

What a great session breaming and to top it off it was during a comp!! Well done on a fantastic bag of bream

Well done man Thats a nice flattie!!

Great top water sesh some nice bream with the ecogear px45!! Also one of my favs for top water breaming. found a clip on youtube of how the lure looks underwater. Jeff

Nice little sesh. Unlucky bout the big one Bream off surface lures are great fun

Fished IC and HC landbased (almost used LB but that would have been three acronyms in a row ) a few times in the last week and a half. Alot of small bream and whiting but I was able to score a few good ones below. This one was caught in IC on a turtle back worm near le montage area while walking my dog. Very small tail on this bream however did put up a good fight. it went just a tad over 30cm. This bream was a bit better caught on another day also in IC. It went 33cm The following fish were from this morning from 9am to 1030am in HC. Started off slow but ended up to be much more productive than the other two sessions. Ended up catching 2 legal bream the largest going 28cm and the flatties came out to play and I caught 5 with the largest going 60cm . Lost my lure to a better one that didnt know it was hooked until it saw my legs in the water then said im outta here!!....zzzzz then ping!! Pretty much called it quits after that but that was a fun session! All fished were released for others the enjoy during this holiday season Happy holidays fishing guys! Jeff

Great day out on the bay!! It was different to see the kings in 1m or less water...I thought I would hook up as then were taking some serious looks at the pencil popper but backing out on the last second. Would have been great to hook one up on bream gear see it run like straight out with no way down Thanks again for the invite Nick and I cant wait for our next trip Jeff

been out for two quick 1hr sessions at my local Iron Cove and Hen and Chicken. First was at HC two days ago and trying out my new ecogear zx35. The whiting were absolutely loving it heaps of fun even though they were just on or under size. Did catch 1 good flattie at 48cm. Second session was today at IC. Again used the zx35 and caught two good bream one 33cm and one 31cm and a couple of small flatties and whiting. The fishing land based is sure getting better of late JEFF

youve been braining the kingies of late Well done man...the first one is nice king Jeff

It was a great day out man...good company and to top it off the fish were biting (at least in the morning!!) The sambos on the light bream gear went hard!!! I can only imagine if we hooked up a kingie on the bream gear...I think i would almost definitely get spooled on my shallow spool luvias. Cant wait to do it again.