Fly Fishing

Kearnsy · Location: Sydney Australia

Gday guys quite day at work and i stumbled across this forum any way i am from Sydney Australia i fly fish in the salt and fresh.

Mostly in the salt for my favourite fish the Yellow tail King fish and i travel around the country as often as i can fishing for Trout to Barra.

Speak soon

Kearnsy

greg · Posted: Tue 01/12/10 6:33 pm Post subject: Hi Kearnsy

Hi, Glad you found the site and hope you enjoy the variety of content and the and social structure of the site. We are a fairly broad group of fly fisherman from all around the world with different stories and information to share. It's been a lot of fun for quite a few years now. Thanks for stopping in.
Greg

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

Hi, Welcome to the site. There are a couple other guys from Austrailia on here ... Austalia is also my "dream trip" and has been for a very long time. I'd like to experience some of the freshwater options in Australia - but the saltwater is really where my heart would be. One of the things that amazes me about Australia (from the little I know) is the seemingly endless amounts of life and variety of species that are, for the most part, not found anywhere else in the world. And, for a guy who LOVES fly fishing for TUNA species - I have some sort of gut feeling that Australia is the meca for Tuna species with species like the dog tooth tuna and so many others in what seems to be very healthy numbers. I'd also like to try my luck at catching a Barramundi if and when my dream trip ever comes true.

Again, welcome to Fliesandfins.com. Glad to have ya on board.

Kearnsy · Location: Sydney Australia

Cheers Jeremy i am heading up to Qeensland next month to fish the bass & barra trail then we are heading to Hervy bay for a week. So hopefully i should have some photos of some big long tail tuna & Golden trevally to put up for you guys to have a look.

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

Oh, man I am so jealous sounds like a "dream come true" for me. If you do get some pics be sure to submit a "fish tale" for the home page of the site. Meant to ask you what the heck is a "Yellow tail King fish?" - See this is why I love the thought of Australlia Salt, just so many species that would all be brand new to me. I like fishing for species of fish that I have never caught before and really like fishing for species of fish that I have never even seen before.

Kearnsy · Location: Sydney Australia

There a Pelagic and i think their related to Samson fish and Rainbow runners.
Their a very dirty fighter and love to destroy fly lines on reefs or any other structure that is near by. In my local waters theirs plenty of fish in the 60 to 80 cm mark. Once their over 80cm i find them unstopable on an 8 weight and any bigger then a meter your starting to strugle with a 12 weight.

But they are a great fly rod target.

kory_k · Location: New York, NY

Welcome to the site! Like Jeremy, I would love to get down to Australia to fly fish the salt. It sounds spectacular with a myriad of different options and beautiful scenery. Some day I will have to get down there! Look forward to hearing about it from you!