High Country Hopper Techniques | Useful Fly Fishing Tips for Kosciuszko Trout Streams

With the recent hot weather around Tumut and Kosciuszko National Park, fly fishing with hoppers is well and truly on the cards. However, there are some subtleties to throwing big bugs, and in this video, Mickey Finn goes through where to target fish, river tactics and which hoppers to use.
Presented by Mickey Finn
Filmed and edited by Dean Johnson
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:05 Hopper Dropper
4:12 Fishing a Single Hopper
7:23 Heading Towards the High Country
11:34 Small Creeks
13:08 Final Thoughts

[@shanemilehi]

Awesome video

[@mathewcampbell8479]

Great tips yet again guys, you're killing it with these videos. Water has been very warm. Was up at 1400m last week and the water was 20+C. Time to give them a break till April or so...

[@TomsOutdoorsFlyFishing]

It's warming up indeed! Good practice to get higher and higher as the day goes on and finish up once it gets too hot 👍

[@BillSaltbush]

"Gotta go and row a boat", hey? Well, don't wear yourself out young fella. I want you to have all your rowing skills available next week. 😁

[@TomsOutdoorsFlyFishing]

Mate I am impossible to wear out when it comes to trout! - Mickey