Today the weather has improved, as yesterday was a shocker with the wind ripping through everything and turning the shoreline into a discoloured mess.

I waited till late afternoon and then went fishing, and this trip resulted in only one Rainbow at 41cm coming to grass, in just average condition.

A fish caught before in the river, on the Talon Trout Spey rod

This morning we elected to take a trip over to Tantangara and have a look at the old Currango Homestead and then the top of the Dam for a fish.

All went well, we arrived at the Homestead and its buildings and then to our horror, out came this dirty creature, who represented National Parks and proceed to give us all, what could be only described as a mouth full !

Well if this is what is representing KNP’s they have a monster problem

Why would anybody even dream of staying there, anywhere near this very rude AND dirty KNP Officer, I will never understand, and the very strange thing is, we almost never said a word to him.

The loss, I was looking at the Homestead to send friends to who are coming from the United States for a long holiday, KNP, you guys just lost a booking for 4, right there with your man. !

We left asap, and moved down to the top end of the Lake, for a fish, score for the morning, not a touch.

By now the wind is getting up and blowing hard, and after a late lunch, David is heading back to Canberra. I have decided to fish the river almost nothing till I reached the back-up waters from the Lake and there, I tricked 3 Rainbows into eating my fly, all the fish are around 35/36 cm in length.

The wind strength is increasing all the time and by night fall, its blowing hard.

The photo, one of the 270plus fish taken on this trip

This morning we saw that black feral cat wandering about looking for birds and there are numbers of birds all on the grass feeding. Someone should shoot the rotten thing, even if its in KNP, as we have seen the same cat of a couple of years now and I wonder how many birds it has eaten !

Our nephew David has arrived for another weekend of fly fishing hoping to better the results of his other weekend. After a beer we headed down to the Portal once for and sadly no matter how hard he tried David just couldn’t catch a fish, this time. Myself I ended up with 3 fish, 1 x 42cm Brown, 2 Rainbows around 40cm and lost 7 fish, as no matter what I did they, the fish seemed to become disconnected from my fly.

All the fish were taken on my Talon Trout Spey rod,

ps, rather makes the gurus on flylife forum who seemed to think that a Trout Spey rod wasn’t suitable for lake fishing look a bit silly, well maybe if they fished more with a Trout Spey class of fly rod they would think rather differently. And it is strange how the people who don’t use a Double Handed fly rod or have had very little experience with one, are always the people who make the big loud statements of anti Double Handed fly rods.  Rather like the people who know all about fly rods and casting on that forum, but when you see them casting/fishing, you wonder who it is, as it couldn’t be the same person who writes so much advice, surely…. laughing here….. and I meet one recently, who knew me but didn’t say who he was, however I knew him by his photos.

Greeting us this morning was a dark grey overcast sky which had a very cold icey wind running under it. Its time to add another layer of clothing

This afternoon the fishing was from 1.30 till 5pm down on the river, score for this effort, 5 fish which included 4 Rainbows 2x 36, 1 x 40 and 1 x 42cm and 1 x 42cm  Brown.

It doesn’t matter how small Browns are, they are all beautiful, this fish is from the river

Then came another trip down to the Portal from 5.30 till 9pm.

This turned out to be a shocker trip for me and a great trip for my friend John who had come along, because John grassed 7 fish and myself 1 Rainbow at 42cm and lost 7 other fish.