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Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« on: April 06, 2011, 04:45:21 AM »
G'day Boy's, RP here,
I got into Fly in a small way about 8 years ago. A change in jobs saw me without the time I previously had, so the Fly gear was stored.
Been bothering me a bit lately, having all that gear on a shelf in the shed, so I got it out and decided that I now had the time to get back into fly fishing.

Advancetown Lake (Hinze Dam) is just down the road from me and an ideal place to get my technique back before I hit some of the rivers and creeks around home.
I intend to get in early and get out early as I'll be land based and the last thing I want to do is hook up some kid on my back cast  :-[

What I was wondering is what type of flys should I be using?
I'm not tying my own, just yet, so commercially available patterns are preferable.
Hoping to tap into the knowledge on sweetwater to save me unproductive trips.

Thanks in advance
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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2011, 05:51:07 AM »
I assume you will be fishing from one of the ramps? That limits your fishing tremendously at Hinze dam on the count of the weed matts.

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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2011, 06:07:49 AM »
I assume there is bass in there, and if weed mats are a problem jump on some Rob Mead gutless frogs (weedless). You can find them on Rainy's website (http://www.rainysflies.com/innovators_Detail.php?innID=113).


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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2011, 06:51:44 AM »
I'd be packing some small Dahlbergs in natural colour, some of Desi Welsh's Bass Vampires, and even some small Muddler Minnows.

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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2011, 07:21:37 AM »
Hi RP
As Bushwacker said  you will be limited land based there. I take 2 rods to Hinze - 4wt floater use small foam poppers casting to edges & 8 weight with striper 4 line  . We are using polar fibre clousers at the moment, brown works good, I also like a fly with a marabou tail , few strands of mirror flash then a chenelle body with brass bumbell eyes.  Havent used a vampire for a while now, polar fibre & marabou have lots more action

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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2011, 05:16:44 PM »
Thanks for the tips fellas  :thumbsup

I' thinking I'll have to do a reccy. I didn't think weed would be so much of a problem?

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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2011, 07:13:26 PM »
not so much weed its the grass matts that eat out into around 9 feet of water in places.

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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2011, 06:54:25 AM »
I am a newbie here

RP  while you are not into tyeing flies, If you send me a message with your address I will post you some flies
that Denis is talking about, we fish Hinze a lot, lately it's been very quite.

If you join the SEQFfishers they will be very helpfull, based in goldcoast.


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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2011, 09:01:10 AM »
"If you join the SEQFfishers they will be very helpfull, based in goldcoast."

Apart form Vince of course  ;)

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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2011, 06:52:12 AM »
Appreciate the info Steve  ;)

Thanks Vince, PM sent  :thumbsup

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Re: Fly's for Advancetown Lake
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2011, 02:36:56 PM »
Norm how can I stay incognito from you. :thumbsup

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