Australian fly fishing guide and content creator. I spend my time mostly in Victoria fishing, guiding, coaching, competing, and tying flies. My mission in fishing is to make everyone's time on the water as enjoyable as possible!
I started this channel as I enjoy making fishing videos, and they challenge my fishing and creativity. I hope they are informative and entertaining!
The most amazing thing to me is your ability to wade that river! That was incredible the way you moved up and down in that current over structure and so forth. I have been in that river and know a bit about how strong the current is. My hat is off to you! Thanks for the great video.
Would I be able to use a bit of marabou for the wings instead of cdc? I have a hard time finding it in stock near me and don’t wanna have to buy online
Love the waters and beautiful wild fish. Wish you could pan a little more slowly on the flies that you are using while releasing or rigging. Always eager to see the flies in action! I’ve tried filming myself and without a full time cameraman it is tough but just a slow look at your rig whenever possible would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Fantastic video! Excited to see how such a simple little river into the sea yielded such a great result. Your step-by-step exploration up river was very educational. Good stuff, thanks Tom.
I had thought, watching a couple other videos of Yellowstone area fishing, that there weren't many fish better than say 12, 13 inches. I watched one guy who just refused to use nymphs only catch juvenile fish. But clearly, there's a significant number of serious size fish too. I had no idea, makes me want to visit there some day even more. I'd be happy chasing little trout but to know there's quite a lot of large cutties is encouraging stuff. Truly beautiful water and nature at it's finest. We can only wish we could make things so beautiful. But I simply love the chase of a big trout to avoid obstacles and what not, those are the most fun memories. You got 2 big ones in the net and had a great fight with another and lost another, you can't say that's a bad trip. For me, even if you lose one after a chase, it's so fun and worth it. But admittedly, it sure does punch you a little more when you do so much to land a fish only to lose it. But with success comes failure and that's why I try to just be glad even when I lose a beauty. It's part of fishing, you just will never land every fish.
Bro I live in gardiner. If you stick to the parks lakes the fish avg. About 20 inches.. biggest fish I've seen in the park was a 31" lake trout outta shoshone lake.. but fish the yellowstone lake. The fish avg about this size.. they cruise the shore post up anywhere witg structure and some depth. Aim for mid to late june.
Sans the CDC it's the forerunner of what we now call the Droz nymph. Almost a 'go to' for me. A marvellous fly. For the tail, I use three or four (synthetic) fibres from a 25mm architrave brush from Bunnings - works a treat and is as hardy as all get out.
I'm guessing that 12 months on you don't respond to comments, however, I'm a hopeful kind of guy. If you do respond, thanks. Why did you use a dry fly hook for this? Firstly, it seems against convention and I can't see the benefit and secondly, it is a nightmare, for a hack like me, to get a slotted bead to sit squarely, if you know what I mean.
Nice one Tom. Not sure anybody has done a Vid on how to manage a fish, particularly a large fish on a fly rig. Ie when do get on the reel, when do you wait it out, do you stay up or downstream of the fish etc.
Great session Tom! That brown in the middle was a fantastic fish. That must be further down on the Kiewa than I have fished, reminded me more of the lower Mitta....:)
Thanks Tom it was great sitting there watching you fish the water I picked a few habits that I'm not doing and what where you using as a sighter it looked like you painted it on at times
Hi Tom, I don't know if it's the camera angle or not but when you are Euro nymphing it appears you hook a good number of fish after your nymphs are past you. Are you catching them on the swing or does it just appear that way? Great job on the videos, I learning a lot watching you fish!
Tom I know it likely depends on the water your fishing, but I notice you seem to have a preference for an 11’3 Nymphing rod over a 10’9. Would it be fair to say that’s because you find it more versatile?
@@tomjarmanfishing3208 Thanks for the reply Tom, very much appreciated. And thanks for the quality content, I’ve really learnt plenty from your videos. They’re first class.
