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Articles by Adrian Webb...
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Fast Water Fishing Fires Up
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The March Brown Bug Gets an Early Start
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Back on the Leven River Trout
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Rain Livens Up the Trout Streams
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Good Conditions, Tough Bite
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Wild Tasmanian Trout Number 12000!
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Double Figure Catch and Trout 200
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Tassie Trout for Gavin
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Chasing Meander River Trout
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Trout in Foggy Conditions
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Tough Day on the River
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Clear Water Trout on Blade Spinners
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Lower Mersey River Trout
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Chasing Number 100 for the Season
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Meander River Brown Trout
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Wind Change Fires up the Trout
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Mepps Aglia Saves the Day
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Browns and Bows in Windy Conditions
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Small Stream Spring Trout
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High Water and Nice Trout
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Double Digits on the Aglia Brown
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Cold Water Trout on Mepps Aglia
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Two Hours Well Spent
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Winter Trout Fishing
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Late Afternoon Trout
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Trout, Aggressive After Rain
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Trout in the Upper Mersey River
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Double Digits on the Mepps Aglia
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Chasing Browns and Rainbows
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A Tough Morning Chasing Trout
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Two Dozen Trout Day
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Browns, Rainbows, and the Bug
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Trout and Lobster
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2022-23 Trout Season Report
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Trout Before the Rain Sets In
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Only Gold Today
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Fast Water Trout Tips
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End of Season Trout
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Thirteen is a Good Number
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Chasing Trout Number 500
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Black Fury and Autumn Trout
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Fast Water Trout Fishing
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Season 2022-23 Trout 350
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Low Tannin Water Trout
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Rainbows Run Hot
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Trout in Tranquil Waters
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Trout Fishing at its Best
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A New Trout Stalker?
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The Bug Gets Bit
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Big River, Small Trout
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Trout Play Hard To Get
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Trout in Cold, Windy Conditions
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A Twenty One Trout Day
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Mepps Bug Fires up the Trout
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Aglia Mouche Noire and Trout 200
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High Water Trout Fishing
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Clear Water Trout Fishing
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Aggressive Small Trout Make The Numbers
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Meander Trout Run Hot and Cold
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The Bug Gets Trout Number 100
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Browns & Rainbows - Upper Mersey
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Tannin Water Trout Twelve Years On
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Upper Mersey Hat Trick
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Finicky Trout
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Nice Size One Day, Small the Next
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A Few Trout Plus a Swim
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Small Stream Surprise
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Doing the Hard Yards on Trout
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First Meander Trout for 2022-23
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Spring Trout on Mepps Lures
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Tannin Water Trout Show Up
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The Long Walk Was Worth It
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Good Weather for Tannin Water Fishing
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Closures & Cormorants
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Cold Water Trout in Tough Conditions
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Good Season Starter on Aglia-e Brite
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Aglia Furia Browns & Rainbows
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Autumn Trout
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Fast Water Fish and Slips
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Dark Tannin Water Trout
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Fast Water Fishing for Trout 200
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My PB Tasmanian Wild Brown Trout 7-2-2014
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The Bug Saves the Day
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More Hits Than Hook Ups
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The Rewards of Small Stream Fishing
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Wet Weather Wild River Trout
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A Few Trout Come Out To Play
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Trout Take the Bug
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2021-22 Trout Season Report
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Chasing Trout in Low Tannin Water
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Trout 500 for the Season
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Late Season Browns and Rainbows
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Fast Water Fishing for Trout 450
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Gold, Flavour of the Day
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Meander River - Had Better Days
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Trout 400 for the Season
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Meander Trout All Fired Up
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My 11,000th Tasmanian Trout
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The Trout WERE There 7-3-21
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A better than average day on the trout 24-2-21
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Mayfly Hatch the Highlight 19-3-2021
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Quite the Opposite Result 16-3-2021
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Autumn Small Stream Trout - March 2021
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Adrian's Trout Fishing Kit & More
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Frosty Spin Session - April 2021
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2020/21 Trout Season Report
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Down to the Wire for 500 Trout
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Meander River Fires Up
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Determined to Land 400th for the Season
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Perseverance Pays Off
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Trout Return to a Favourite Stream
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First Double Figures for the Season
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A Tale of Two Seasons
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Flashback Season Starter 2013-14
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2019-20 Trout Season Report
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400th Trout of the Season
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High Water & Damp Conditions
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Upper Mersey Wild Browns
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Cattle End the Trout Fishing
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Trout a Little Scarce
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Tannin Water Trout Hard to Find
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Meandering with Bugs
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Back to the Fast Waters
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Low Water Wild Trout
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Quick Tannin Session
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Brown Trout on Brown Bugs
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Trout Fire Up After Heavy Rains
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Late Arvo Bug Session
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My Top 5 Mepps Inline Spinners
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Fast Water Delivers #300
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Buggin' the Fast Water
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Ideal Conditions, Slow Going
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Leven Dark Tannin Waters
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Rain Dampens the Trout Fishing
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Mersey Fast Water Slow
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Wading the Leven River
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Fast Water Trout Go For Gold
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26 Hook Ups & 200th Trout
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Flashback to the Meander
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Stone Fly & Surface Feeding Trout
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The Big Finicky Brown
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Mepps Bug Claims Trout
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My 10,000th Tasmanian Wild Trout
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New Found Tannin Fires
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Back to the Tannin
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Lean on the Lower Mersey
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Putting in the Hours
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Tough Day at the Office
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Beautiful Conditions to Chase Trout
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My 10,000 Trout Journey
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Aglia Fluo & Wild Browns
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Leven River Gold
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Hard Work Pays Off
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Upper Mersey River
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Wild Browns & Rainbows
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End of Season Trout Tips
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Dark Tannin Water Trout
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Working Around the Weed
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Medium & Fast Water Trout
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Meander River Browns
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Mepps Aglia Browns
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Leven River Browns
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Trout's Revenge
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Small Stream Fires After Rain
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Fast Water Trout 13-12-2018
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5AM on the River 7-12-2018
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Session Heats Up 28-11-2018
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A Flying Start 19-11-2018
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Plenty of Trout 16-11-2018
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A Dasher Small Browns - 10-11-2018
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Summer Trout Tips with Mepps
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Tannin Trout a Plenty 6-11-2018
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Mepps Aglia Does the Job 24-10-2018
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Lows & Highs 22-10-2018
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Very Moody Trout 15-10-2018
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Low Water Tannin Trout 9-10-2018
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Where are the Meander Trout? 3-10-2018
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Browns & Cows 1-10-2018
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Skinny Water Browns 5-9-18
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First Tassie Trout 2018-19
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Trout Season Opener 6-8-2018
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Retrieve Tips
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Reading a Trout River
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Metal Blade Spinners - Colour
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Metal Blade Spinners - An Introduction
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Adrian Webb's Trout Tips
Adrian Webb
How did you get into fishing?
Went jetty fishing with my grandfather back in 1954.
What inspires you about fishing?
The outdoors and the challenge of catching them.
Where in Australia do you fish and what are your main target species?
The northern rivers of Tasmania. Brown and rainbow trout are the species that I chase.
What are 3 of your favourite species and why?
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Brown trout
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Rainbow trout
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Probably snapper and KG whiting if I went saltwater fishing again.
What are a few of your most memorable captures?
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My first brown trout that went 3 lbs back in 1966 in South Australia, caught on a Mepps Black Fury.
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My first PB brown trout (5lb 4oz) taken in the Mersey River here in Tasmania back in 2006.
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My biggest and best wild brown trout ever caught in a river on April 29, 2019, weighing 8lb 8oz.
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What are your go-to Tackle Tactics products and some tips for fishing them?
Mepps lures, Boomerang Zinger Duo and Moncross tackle storage boxes.
The large variety of Mepps spinners are great for chasing trout in slow, medium and fast water rivers. Cast them up and across the river and retrieve at the same speed as the flow. They're also the ideal lure for other fish species in rivers, lakes and dams too.
The Zinger Duo is the perfect tool for fishing, something that's fitted to my fishing vest permanently.
What are your go-to Okuma products and why?
I use an Okuma LRF 6' 1-3kg split grip rod, coupled with an Okuma Ceymar C-10 spinning reel. It's a beautifully, well balanced, light weight set up that I find perfect for trout fishing the rivers here in Tasmania.
What species are on your bucket list and why?
A New Zealand wild brown or rainbow trout because it's something that I've always wanted to catch. Doubt I'll ever get there to do it though, still one never knows do they...
What is a piece of fishing advice that you've been given that still sticks with you?
Never takes any risks when fishing as no fish is worth drowning for.
Three tips for somebody new to fishing?
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Most of all enjoy yourself when fishing.
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Listen and learn from an experienced fisher person, read fishing books, watch Tackle Tactics TV (You Tube) and join an Angling Club.
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Go with an experienced fisher person, as stated earlier, don't take risks and if you're unsure of the area you are about to fish, then don't fish there. Go to an area where others are fishing that feels safe, such as a jetty or pier.
Tournament Highlights
I've been the Ulverstone Angling Club Champion for most trout caught in rivers and streams over the past twelve years in a row. Back in 2009 I was the Team Captain for the Ulverstone Angling Club in the Carnival of the Grasshopper 'World Championships', which we won. I caught the most trout, the heaviest trout and was named 'Lord of the River'. One was only allowed to use a grasshopper trout fly or live grasshoppers. No lures were allowed to be used. I chose to fish with live grasshoppers.