Australian Possum Soft Hackle

MATERIALS

HOOK: #16 Grip 11011BL

RIB: Gold tinsel

BODY: Australian Possum under fur

THORAX: Australian guard hair hen feathers.

BEAD: 2mm GM Tungsten

Red bead

Beautiful Cape town

Though I would share these two pictures I found on the Net of the beautiful city I live in.

Click on the links to have a look.

Panoramic view

Full moon hike

Virtual Africa

Saterday small stream fishing

With temperatures in the high 30C this past week I didn't have to much hope for fishing this weekend. Saturday proofed to be a bit cooler and I though I would go check out one of my favorite little streams. The section I planed to fish is mostly covered in trees and shade so I thought that I might stand a change to still get a few fish early morning.

On arriving at the river I notices that it was considerably lower than the last time I have been there, with some of the normal pools only ankle deep. I rigged up however and walked up the river to only look for deeper pools. I found a few and casted a dry fly over the water. I had plenty of strikes at my fly, but these were all really small fish. However in most of the deeper pools I could find there was always a bigger fish sitting in the head, and they were more than happy to take my fly.

I ended with three relatively decent sized fish for this stream, but it was a nice day to be out and enjoyed the walk much more than the actual fishing.