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Mick Hall, Blackridge Fly Fishing School, near Eildon
Photo: Nick Drayson
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'I've got a belief - if you can sew a button on a shirt, you can tie a trout fly. It's just methods and proportions, that's all it is.
'We watch the bugs that come off the water and we look at the colours that are there, then we settle down and we pick our materials that are going to match that. You can be reasonably close, you don't have to be a perfect representation because it's just not needed.
'When you get fast-flowing water like you do with the Goulburn here - sometimes it's running at 3 or 4 megalitres a day when they're doing the irrigation stuff - that water is moving pretty fast and the trout doesn't have too much time to make up its mind. So what you've got to look at is the profile of the fly, and when the trout sees it coming into its vision it's got a limited time to make up its mind.
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