About the Whitebait fly Trout Fly

From August through October we search the estuaries in southern Tasmania for signs of trout hammering the prolific whitebait runs. The fly is cast in front of the feeding fish and the retrieve can be varied from dead drift, to fast or slow depending on how the trout are feeding. Letting the fly sink below a school of bait that has just been slammed by a big trout can produce some interesting results. If you get desperate, blind searching with this fly along the undercut river banks may also produce trout.

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I adapted this fly from fly tyer Murray Wilson's fly known as the BMS (Bullen Merri Special) and am sure that a real BMS would do equally if not a better job. We use this fly to fish for sea run brown trout and estuary trout in our southern estuaries. Yes, it is a bit of a shocker! One of my clients, Pete Chan from Singapore, laughed when I first showed it to him and he asked me 'What is that supposed to represent?' He laughed a lot more 2 hours later, when an 11 pound sea run brown trout grabbed the fly and hooked up. Comment by Brett Wolf owner of Blue Lake Lodge that is a short drive from Tasmania's wonderful wilderness fishery- the Western Lakes. During the early season he also operate guided fishing tours to Tasmania's southern estuaries in pursuit of large sea run brown trout and estuary residents.

Creator of this trout fly: Brett Wolf

Tier of this trout fly: Brett Wolf

Country of origin for this trout fly: Tasmania

This trout fly is designed to be fished on Still Water fish