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Somewhere between the Gorges

// September 15th, 2009 // 6 Comments » // Thirsty Traveler

Made an amazing hike which led us along one of the best Trout waters in the Blue Mountains.We crossed three rivers and saw heaps of fish in all of them. Caught some fish too.The weather is getting warmer and warmer each day so the bush is full of wild life…wild pigs,lizards and marsupials are all around. Had the first meeting with a Red Belied Black Snake…and the second meeting…and a third one. I have to get used to this if I want to keep fishing for Trout in Australia. Anyway that was really scary! We reached total wilderness at the end of our hike – the trees looked like they were straight out of a Tarzan movie and were surrounded by wombat paths. Then there were the steep and grey gorges, they just make you feel like one of those small rocks in the water.Probably those gorges have their own purpose to be there, maybe just to hide the fish in the river, where even the sun is too afraid to have a look…

River X

// August 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Thirsty Traveler

Some pics from the last fishing trip to the river “X”…to see more than 20 decent  Trout in one pool…man , that was mind-blowing!

Short videos too:

Hasta la vista Jenolan?….yeah….so we’re back

// August 7th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Thirsty Traveler

The Jenolan is one of the few streams open in NSW during the winter, so we headed back….and this time with better results. This part of the river doesn’t have any car access so we did a hike from a 1000m peak down to 200m with a length of around 5km each way.The water we reached was running wider deeper and faster than the trip before. The river was full of boulders and the water was crystal clear with an amazing amount of fish from small to trophy ones, sight fishing what can be better. We were sad just for one thing….the days are too short for the fly fisherman when he fishes a stream like that. Of course the hike down and up ate half of our time and our strength, it was hard, but really really worth it.

…see you next time Jenolan!

Getting twiggy

// July 7th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Thirsty Traveler

Went out in the Blue Mountain’s to a little stream called the Jenolan River with couple of friends from Sydney Flyrodders. We were hoping for good size spawning rainbow trout, but it was probably too early in the season. The water temperature is still quite high after a hot Autumn, so we managed to catch just few little ones and spooked a lot of bigger trout. But what a beautiful kind of stream it is, with crystal clear water running through rainforest and cliffs, where the ferns cover every bend of the river and make a great spot for trout to hide…  So we’re going to go back there, maybe in a few weeks, with hope in our minds.

Pool of Jenolan River…but fishing is allowed only downstream of it

Im just wondering guys where are your stories, you’re having a summer over there…huh?