Welcome Haysie (Peter Hayes, Tasmania!)

[Paul Arden]

Our rivers are very tight and as you know I'm not the slightest bit interested in lobbing nymphs just so I can say I caught a fish fly fishing. For me it's all about the cast.

Yes I can understand that, for many people it's the same. Me on the other hand I absolutely love this nymphing style, although when it comes to something like Snakehead I make it much harder for myself throwing loops of flyline around. I think what I love about this method is the sensitivity of seeing takes that you would never see or know about otherwise. Also you are somehow much more in direct control when you are fishing only the leader and fly. Still I didn't get into flyfishing through fly casting - as I'm sure you didn't either - but mostly through coarse fishing with worms, maggot and spinners, before progressing to the fly. If there wasn't fly fishing I would still be fishing every day, only not with the fly!

How do people take up flyfishing in Tasmania? Directly or through other methods first?

Cheers, Paul

[Graeme H]

How do people take up flyfishing in Tasmania? Directly or through other methods first?

Cheers, Paul

That's a good question. I know the answer for me and my friends, but I'd love to hear Haysie's answer too.

Cheers,
Graeme

[Haysie]

Time to make 5 piece 9footers then

And g'day haysie, great to see you here! Can I have my backcast back please

Cheers
Lasse

G'day Lasse,

Nice to chat. I'm off to Livingston tomorrow for the IFFF CBOG meeting then some examinations and workshops. I'll make sure everyone is on their toes and have heaps of fun. I have a week and a half to fish too.

Yeah..... I remember your backcast...... and my forward cast that goes too fast and unrolls too quickly and is aimed too high that it sometimes tails for reasons other than me belting it too much !

I still remember casting with you. You are a great caster with a great casting mind. Keep up the good work.

[Haysie]

How do people take up flyfishing in Tasmania? Directly or through other methods first?

Cheers, Paul

That's a good question. I know the answer for me and my friends, but I'd love to hear Haysie's answer too.

Cheers,
Graeme

It is a good question.....

If you have a hint of a true hunter or angler in you then I think you will eventually end up fly fishing if you are exposed to it. Friends firstly. Media images/movies etc. As you know if you are fair dinkum then once you start you will have the disease.
THere is so much more going on than bait fishing and for most there is more going on than lure fishing.

I personally do not know of anyone (adults) that migrates from Bait and or lure fishing to fly fishing that goes back to bait or lure. My son Lachie doesn't give a fat rats arse how he catches them....... One day I suspect he will.

[Walter]

Hey Peter!

Glad to hear you are still alive and well in spite of crocs, sharks, snakes and spiders. I have a question about the chopstick challenge - what do you change in your normal casting stroke to cast with a chopstick?

Cheers!

Walter

[Lasse Karlsson]

Hi Walter

Nothing, more translation, but that's outside the stroke

And the haul of course

Cheers
Lasse

[Paul Arden]

Nothing, more translation, but that's outside the stroke

It's part of mine

[Lasse Karlsson]

Mine too, when I'm not talking to fellow members of the club

[Walter]

Remind me. Which one of you two is Peter? Or is Peter a construct of the matrix?

[Lasse Karlsson]

Remind me. Which one of you two is Peter? Or is Peter a construct of the matrix?

With skills like his, he might very well be

Red or blue pill?

Cheers
Lasse