The far south coast of NSW, Australia is well recognised as a true wilderness area. Sparkling clear sand flats and turquoise channels meander for miles through unspoiled rainforest valleys. A delightfully mild climate and regularly sunny days make angling an absolute pleasure amongst these surrounds. Within an hours drive North or South of Merimbula, we can offer over ten world class estuaries and rivers, all of which are totally unaffected by poor weather, flooding or windy conditions. It is fantastic that superb fishing should be expected in even the worst conditions. A huge variety of angling styles are available from flyfishing crystal clear sand flats, spinning deep diving lures along channel edges for Flathead, maybe night fishing at anchor for the powerful Mulloway or rafting amazing freshwater rainforest rivers in search of Bass beneath towering cliffs and overhanging ferns. No matter what you pursue, if it lives inshore, we've got it covered!

Micah Adams, your personal guide and tutor, has been extensively flyfishing and lure casting the South coast's region of first class estuaries and rivers for a number of years. Part of his time is spent photographing fish and landscapes and writing articles for Australia's leading fishing magazines. Micah operates out of a brand new custom built 15ft Barra Boat designed primarily for flyfishing in great style. The boat features two very large casting decks, loads of storage, secure rod racks, a large ice box & live well, electric trolling motor and the most advanced fish finder unit available. A day or even a week fly and lure casting Australia's most spectacular wilderness waters for trophy size fish is truly an experience of a lifetime that were sure you will never forget!

Flathead are the most common and popularly targeted species throughout our estuaries. They range in size from one to fifteen pounds though the average is a little over four pounds. They are exclusively bottom dwellers that absolutely love chasing lures and flies that dive deep and disturb the bottom around them. Flathead also find a live poddy mullet bait irresistible when weighted close to the bottom and drifted quietly across the lake or down the channel during the last half of the run out tide. Flathead display great fighting abilities and their aggressive nature makes them an exciting lure and fly prospect.

Bream can be found all year round either schooling in large numbers over sand, gravel bars and under oyster leases or in small groups of two and three holding tight beneath jungle like snags and fallen tree's. The silver, mauve and bronze shades of the bream make them a beautiful species that are readily available two all methods of angling. Bream like all snag dwelling species exhibit a seriously aggressive nature and have no respect for light line. Their strike as they engulf the fly or lure on the turn is explosive, averaging two pounds and available to five, they certainly have some strength on light casting outfits.

Tailor are one of the really under rated sportfish of the estuary. The live all year round in the open bays lake area's of the coast's estuaries feeding on large schools of white bait. They are a very fast and aggressive species who's feeding tendencies are not unlike that of a small tuna. Hunting in large packs, they ball up the white bait then smash through them with great speed and ferocity. Spectacular surface action is common right through the day as they dance all over the surface. Most fish encountered are around the two pound mark however, fish to five pounds are not uncommon. The really great thing about tailor is their hard fighting abilities and abundant numbers. To catch twenty or thirty good fish on fly in day is the norm.

Mulloway are truly the inshore monsters of the dark. Mulloway or Jewies as they are affectionately known, grow to fifty or sixty pounds. A typical fish is in the twenty to twenty five pound bracket though many much larger fish are taken each season. The hours of sunset through until two in the morning are preferred. We commonly fish large live baits and full fillet strip baits for the Jew's, however over recent years both lure and fly fishing at night for the Mulloway is becoming the latest craze. The sight of your first Mulloway is one of which you just cannot forget. Under a dark sky full of stars you must battle a huge fish for half an hour before it emerges from the darkness as four feet of glistening gold.

Bass have an amazing ability to captivate those that fish for them. Not only are they a beautiful species that just love lures and flies thrown close into the snags but they live in the most spectacular environment of all the species that we target. Dark freshwater rivers that scour a marvelous rainforest valley through gourges and over huge boulders set the scene for the day. The grand scenery is only interrupted by the energetic flight of a small kingfisher passing the raft or the crashing jolt as a four pound Bass engulfs your deep diver and is now heading at a fierce rate towards the nasty snag that he calls home. It is not surprising that Australian Bass are Australia's most respected and loved light tackle sportfish. Fishing for these great fish is done by small rubber white water rafts and can often be a very physical day. They spend the months from October through until April in the freshwater reaches of the southern estuaries journeying down into the brackish tidal reaches during the cooler months to spawn.

Estuary Perch, often mistaken as Bass, live year round in the brackish tidal reaches of our estuarine rivers. They look almost identical to the Bass with a larger mouth and a distinct scooped or dipped head. Due to their often mistaken identity, there is very little said about EP's however they are reasonably commonly found beneath large fallen tree's and snag piles in the upper reaches of the rivers. They certainly have a reputation for their strength and can straighten a lures trebles in a single turn. Like the Bass they grow to six pounds and average around two or three.