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A briefer version of "When the Wind is in the East" first appeared in Trout Canada Magazine under the title "A Canadian Rises Down Under."
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dawson, Chris. Woolly worms & wombats: a sidelong glance at flyfishing down under / Chris Dawson. p. cm. ISBN 1-55566-121-1 1. Trout fishingAustralia. 2. Trout fishingNew Zealand. 3. Fly fishingAustralia. 4. Fly fishingNew Zealand. I. Title. I. Title: Woolly worms and wombats. SH688.A8D39 1994 799.1'755dc20 94-3132 CIP
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Printed in the United States of America by Johnson Printing Company 1880 South 57th Court Boulder, Colorado 80301
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for Brian, for Jeanne, for Chris Clarke,
three pillars of strength and support
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Contents
PART IAUSTRALIA
1
Where There's a Will There's a Way
3
2
A Shrimp on the Barbie
17
3
Goldfish on the Fly
28
4
Fish Tails
34
5
Last Chance to Tasmania
49
6
A Snake in the Grass
62
7
The Frog Killer an Mrs. Simpson
72
PART IINEW ZEALAND
8
When the Wind Is in the East
85
9
First Impressions
97
10
The Yellow House
106
11
A Week on the Worsley
118
12
Baa Baa Black Sheep
130
13
North Island Blues
142
14
Far from the Maddening Crowd
155
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Preface
Flyfishing is under my skin. It's been there for over ten years and there's never been a time in those years that I haven't taken it seriously. It's under your skin, too, or you wouldn't be reading this right now.
In the spring of 1991, I walked into my boss's office at the Calgary Herald newspaper. Canada, like the rest of the world, was deep in recession. In an effort to save money, the Herald hadoffered reporters voluntary leaves-of-absence. I asked for ten months.
"I have no problem with the length of time," my boss explained, "as long as you're doing something constructive. I don't want you going to Hawaii to lie on a beach somewhere." I told him I was planning a trip to the Southern Hemisphere. To flyfish. He stared into my eyes for a good long while, and I'm not sure what he saw there. But afterwards, with just the slightest hint of a smile, he said, "Okay, you've got it."
This is not a book about lodges and guides and helicopters. There is some of that, to be sure, but others have thoroughly covered that ground: Ernest Schwiebert and Lefty Kreh, to name two. This is a book about two countries, New Zealand and Australia, and the ordinary, everyday people who live and flyfish for trout in them. The people in these pages opened their homes and their lives to me. They are a bricklayer who rushed home from work every night for a week so that he could share his favorite angling spots with a stranger from around the world, an unemployed Tasmanian who drove me halfway
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around the island at his expense mumbling "beautiful, beautiful" every time we hooked a fish, and a New Zealand farmer who abandoned the sheep for a weekend so that we could cast flies into a river a hundred miles away. They are people like you and Ipeople with something under their skin.
That's not to say that flyfishers who stay in lodges and hire guides won't gain anything from these pages, because I think they will. There's something here for everyone. I don't pretend to be an authority on flyfishing. Most assuredly, I'm not. But almost a decade of working in the newspaper business has taught me a thing or two about observation and the subtleand often
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