Originally Posted by
woolybugger
All I can say is welcome to the dark side, once you go fly you never go back...
Borumba is a fantastic place for the fly fisho, especially for those trout on steriods (The Toga!)
I have fished there for the passed 6 years or so and it changes every time I go there, which is all the fun. We mostly fly but also throw the odd lure or SP around.
We fished there last week and am heading back out there this wed for a look. As previous post explained, they averae the 60cm mark but there are a hell of alot of big fish over the magic 100cm mark. My biggest is 99.5cm and yes, I tried to stretch it out a bit more, and I have seen and lost much bigger. They have just finished spawning so are just starting to come back on the bite as they don't really feed when looking after their young. This has resulted in the smaller ones growing a pair and taking up the prime feeding grounds, as the huge males look after the young and are quite teritorial. I only see the smaller ones around this time of year then the larger ones come back into the best areas and chase out the smaller ones. This is the best theory I have come up with but if anyone out there has a better theory, I am all ears.
Anyway, I use an 8wt Powell rod and mainly floating line but sometimes inermediate if the water gets quite hot in the middle of the day. Leader, well I mainly use 12lb but depends how finicky they are. They have quite boney mouths and rough, so have lost many fish when not hooked properly. As mentioned, you can't realy use the rod to set the hook so have o rely on the fish and your strike hand that is holding the fly line. I tie my own flies and use Gamikatzo hooks with a wider guage to get into their mouths better.
Flies of choice are, poppers, small Dahlbergs, muddler minnows, damsel fly, red tags (for smaller Togas mainly) pink things, Zonkers and small bait fish patterns.
They are certainly great fish to catch on fly, especially when sight casting.
If you ever see boats on the water with 'Woolybugger fly fishers' n the side, say g'day and we will have a beer and share some war stories, or if you want to go out one day, give us a bell.
Hope this helps alittle.