Successful nymph pattern used by Adrain Batey (2008)

Gary with a nice Thredbo brown

William Berry's trip to Tom Groggin

More of William Berry's trip to Tom Groggin

More of William Berry's trip to Tom Groggin

More of William Berry's trip to Tom Groggin

Phil O'Brien with a nice 52cm rainbow from Thompson's Creek Dam

Phil O'Brien - 47cm Rainbow from Thompson's Creek Dam August 2007

Phil O'Brien with a 6.5lb Rainbow - Millbrook Lakes October 2007

Phil O'Brien with nice pair of trout caught on Lake Jindabyne 2007

Leo Harding with a nice Macquarie River brown from a recent trip to Tasmania - Feb 2005

The afternoon sun sets on the famously frustrating Pejar Dam, west of Goulburn - April 2004 (photo: Andrew Susani)

A long, deep pool on Phil's River, north west of Crookwell, NSW - April 2004 (photo: Andrew Susani)

Ted Bundy with a good brown that took a foam beetle after being spotted cruising the edges of Frying Pan, Lake Eucumbene - Dec 2002 (photo: Shane Rosengrave)

Stan Pyle with a 5.5lb brown taken on a mudeye pattern at Frying Pan - Dec 2002 (photo: Shane Rosengrave)

A nice brown of about 3.5lb caught by Shane Rosengrave on a foam beetle while polaroiding the shores of Frying Pan - Dec 2002 (photo: Shane Rosengrave)

Paul Harvey with a 580mm Frying Pan brown that was fooled by a #16 Red Tag - Nov. 2002 (photo: Shane Rosengrave)

Another of Paul's Frying Pan browns, this one went 560mm - Nov. 2002 (photo: Shane Rosengrave)

A 2lb brown taken by Shane Rosengrave during a week long stay at Frying Pan - Nov. 2002 (photo: Shane Rosengrave)

Steve Chatterton with what he ranks as a medium sized brown taken while polaroiding the foreshores of Lake Jindabyne on a calm day in August, 2002 - (photo: Julie Chatterton)

Leo Harding with a beautiful brown trout taken on a hopper pattern from a deep rocky stretch of Frying Pan, Lake Eucumbene - Jan 2002 (photo: Chris Harding)

Chris Harding with a nicely marked brown fooled by a hopper imitation on a warm day in Frying Pan arm, Lake Eucumbene - Jan 2002 (photo: Leo Harding)

Andrew Susani cradles a 56cm rainbow which took a red ice chenille woolly bugger - Dec 2001 (photo: Andrew Susani)

550mm (4lb 2oz) brown trout fooled by on of Shane Rosengrave's red tags in Rushy Plains Bay - Dec 2001 (photo: Shane Rosengrave)

535mm (3lb 14oz) brown trout destined for the smoker after taking a brown nymph in Rushy Plains Bay - Dec 2001 (photo: Shane Rosengrave)

5lb brown polaroided from Taylors Bay at Kalkite, Lake Jindabyne - Nov. 2001 (photo: Stephen Chatterton)

A big trout frolics in a small flooded bay near Taylors Bay, Lake Jindabyne - Nov. 2001 (photo: Stephen Chatterton)

Paul Harvey with a 50cm brown trout that took a beadhead nymph fished over a flooded grassy bank in Rushy Plains Bay at Frying Pan, Lake Eucumbene - Nov. 2001 (photo: Ann Lee)

Andrew Susani with a nice brown trout taken on a red ice chenille woolly bugger fished slowly around a bunch of reeds - August 2001 (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Andrew Susani with a nice spawn run rainbow taken while sight fishing with glo-bugs from a Southern Highlands feeder stream - July 2001 (photo: Ken Harris)

Spawn run hen rainbow showing the scars from the rigours of spawning - July 2001 (photo: Ken Harris)

Stephen Chatterton cradles a beautifully conditioned brown which took a Polafibre creation - June 2001 (photo: Andrew Susani)

Andrew Wheeler with another fine conditioned brown taken on a conehead brown Woolly Bugger - June 2001 (photo: Andrew Susani)

Andrew Susani with a spawn run rainbow which took a beadhead nymph drifted through a shallow run on the Wollondilly River below Goodman's Ford - May 2001 (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Fat little rainbow which scoffed a black/purple Woolly Bugger - May 2001 (photo: Andrew Susani)

Andrew Wheeler indicator nymphing a good looking stretch of the Wollondilly River below Goodman's Ford - June 2001 (photo: Andrew Susani)

Andrew Wheeler drifts a nymph down a fishy looking run below Goodman's Ford on the Wollondilly River - June 2001 (photo: Andrew Susani)

Andrew Wheeler indicator nymphing a shallow stretch of the Wollondilly River below Goodman's Ford - August 1999 (photo: Andrew Susani)

Andrew Wheeler with a 4lb brown that smashed a slowly retrieved black Muddler Minnow at Frying Pan, Lake Eucumbene - March 1999 (photo: Leo Harding)

Rowley Hoyer is all smiles after fooling this backwater brown with a size 18 willow grub from the Twizel River, New Zealand - December, 2000 (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Leo Harding with a solid New Zealand brown from the Tekapo Delta - November 2000 (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Andrew Wheeler with a brown trout from the Ahuriri River, New Zealand - November 2000 (photo: Leo Harding)

Stephen Chatterton with a well conditioned brown from the Twizel River - November 2000 (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Andrew Wheeler cradles an average rainbow trout from the Twizel River, New Zealand - February 2001 (photo: Vegas Bob)

Andrew Wheeler with a fighting fit rainbow out of the Ahuriri River, New Zealand -  Nov 2000 (photo: Leo Harding)

Claude Guala battles a rainbow from a fast stretch of the Tekapo River - November 2000 (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Leo Harding looks rightfully pleased with this excellent backwater brown from the Tekapo River  - November 2000 (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Leo Harding with a beautiful 6lb brown from the Ahuriri River  - November 2000 (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Andrew Wheeler tries to manage a boisterous rainbow in close on the Ahuriri River  - November 2000 (photo: Leo Harding)

Leo Harding's tools of the trade and the fruits of their labour - a solid male brown from the Tekapo River  - November 2000 (photo: Leo Harding)

Andrew Wheeler hooked up on a rainbow from the Ahuriri River  - November 2000 (photo: Leo Harding)

Leo Harding with a small rainbow from the mouth of the Tekapo Delta system  - November 2000 (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Ann Lee on the Mataura River near Gore

Windy morning on the Mataura River near Gore (photo: Ann Lee)

Twizel River, South Island (photo: Andrew Wheeler)

Ahuriri River, South Island (photo: Leo Harding)

Tekapo River, South Island (photo: Leo Harding)

Tekapo River, South Island (photo: Leo Harding)

Ahuriri River, South Island (photo: Leo Harding)

Ahuriri River, South Island (photo: Leo Harding)