The edges of Great Lake are easily accessed and productive.
Great Lake in winter Shaun Cooper
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or most angler’s winter is a time for resting weary legs and stocking fly boxes. But for some such as myself the thought of not fishing for a couple of months is too much to bear. So where does one fish for trout in June? And how does one find someone as mad as they are to join them in braving the arctic blast that is a Tasmanian winter. Lucky for me I have a couple of mates who are not quite as delusional as me but do give in to peer pressure easily.
Pete, Brendan and myself met at a bakery in Cressy at the gentlemanly hour of 10am and headed up the mountain to the Great Lake. Great Lake can be a daunting piece of water if looked at as a whole, but when broken down into sections and looking at the bays as a series of smaller lakes it becomes a lot less over-whelming. And if you are lucky enough to have a couple of gun anglers to formulate a plan with as I was it becomes easier again.
We hit the water around lunch time and it was hard to tell if the tingling was from the thought of crossing paths with some wily trout or the effects of nerve damage from the bone jarring drive in but either way, we were glad to be out of the car! Unsurprisingly fish activity at this time of year is at a minimum, so we started out by searching the shoreline with Galaxia patterns and gradually worked our flies out towards deeper water. It wasn’t long before Brendan
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