How to Spot Fish - Dealing With The Dreaded Fly Fishing Glare

It’s never too glary to find a few fish, you just have to adapt your strategy.

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Welcome to that time of the year where we obsess over weather patterns and river levels. Almost daily we'll try to predict when the two will meet together in that sweet spot of river post-flood dro...

How To Safely Wade Rivers

Confident, more aggressive waders achieve better positioning to both cast and get better drifts from and because of this, catch more fishäó?fact. Theyäó»re able to move along those trickier banks, ...

Fly Fishing Time Management

Here are some thoughts on how to more efficiently manage your day fly fishing to optimise success using planning and time management strategies. Over the years, guiding and catering to anglers with...

Fly fishing tips from the pros Professional guides get to share time with many anglers and experience many things. We've collected five come so here are some observations that could help your own...

When Chris Dore talks fly fishing, it's well worth listening. With this (ahem..) delightful summer weather of late there have been more than a few times we have reached for our streamer box with ...

Fly Fishing Tips with Chris Dore A sinking line? But I only fish rivers? Read on... For pulling fish on streamers from deep, backcountry summertime pools, high flows or just swinging your favou...

How to Spey Cast

Spey Casting - the why and the how Spey casting is a form of fly fishing that involves using a two-handed rod to cast a fly line. This technique is named after the River Spey in Scotland, where i...

Winter Lake Fishing Tips for Victoria

You will find a wealth of winter fishing information on the Manic Blog, because we have such a wickedly good bunch of Manic Mates from all over Australia and New Zealand to tap into. One such legen...

OVERVIEW OF THE MERSEY RIVER The Mersey River is a wonderful fishery located in northwest Tasmania. Beginning life at Lake Meston, the river flows 147 kilometers before entering Bass Straight in ...