http://www.swandives.com Fish fillets from Australia Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:56:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm a newcomer to fly tying, although I spent many hours watching my father tie flies when I was younger. I am really enjoying it, and there is immense satisfaction in finishing a fly. This one is a bead-head soft hackle nymph. I was intending to tie a bead-head black ... http://www.swandives.com/a-foray-into-fly-tying Well, it took a while, but I finally have a name for the previously-unidentified fish I caught up at Hinchenbrook in Queensland. It's a Dorab Wolf Herring! And a pretty big one at that - they grow to 1 metre in length but are rarely seen bigger than 80 centimetres, ... http://www.swandives.com/it-is-a-wolf-herring OK, here's a curly one. About two years ago I caught this fish off a jetty at the mouth of the Hinchenbrook Channel in Queensland, Australia. For two years, we've been trying to identify it. I have given up - for the life of me, I don't know what it ... http://www.swandives.com/can-you-name-this-fish What do stream fishermen do when the season's ending, the trout are spawning and the long wait for spring and the return of river fishing begins? Why, they plan their next fishing trip and attend fly fishing film festivals! Australia is better-known for its outback wilderness and, with a sea-girt coastline, ... http://www.swandives.com/fly-fishing-film-festival-2 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Easter Show trout, originally uploaded by Swandives. So what does the Sydney Royal Easter Show have to do with fishing? Well, generally not a lot. This year, however, there were more ... http://www.swandives.com/easter-show-trout As you can see, Swandives is in the middle of a renovation. The swan is gone, as they say (fitting really, given this blog's title), replaced by a picture of a magnificent rainbow trout. That's right - we're changing identity to all things fishing. I'm still working out whether and ... http://www.swandives.com/fish-fillets-and-kingfish The beloved and I regularly talk to each other on IM - it's like a creative lifeline/brains trust that lets you communicate all those random thoughts that occur to you during the day, but which you inevitably forget at the end of the all when the 'Hi honey, how was ... http://www.swandives.com/joy-division-joy Hear ye, hear ye! Transmissions (aka inane ramblings) are about to cease as Swandives undergoes an extreme makeover and is becomes a full-time fishing blog. That's the plan, anyway. I haven't been updating much lately because, well, I've been fishing. And I think it makes sense to focus on one ... http://www.swandives.com/swandives-is-going-fishing Happy New Year! You know, I really should be the kind of person who scoffs at new year resolutions as being completely vacuous and silly but that's not the case. I love a good new year resolution! I always make a few, and inevitably fail to keep a couple. The ... http://www.swandives.com/new-year-resolutions Like many people, I'm always on the lookout for specials in the supermarket. As a consumer, I'm only loyal to a handful of brands (my loyalty is fierce, mind you) - the rest is all about whatever's on special that week. Sometimes, however, specials seem to defy common sense. Take this ... http://www.swandives.com/supermarket-madness