Most trout and salmon can be successfully crossed and most hybrids are infertile. One of the most notable hybrids is the tiger trout, a fish produced by fertilising brown trout eggs with brook trout milt.

The tiger trout (Salmo trutta × Salvelinus fontinalis) is a sterile, inter-generic hybrid of the brown trout (Salmo trutta) and the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Read More »

The eel-tailed catfish, Tandanus tandanus, is a freshwater fish native to the Murray-Darling river system of eastern Australia. The scientific name for eel-tailed catfish comes from a name for the fish in an unidentified Aboriginal Australian language – Tandan, which Major Thomas Livingston Mitchell recorded on his 1832 expedition. Read More »

I hope all of you had a great Christmas and a happy New Year’s celebration. Let’s hope that we never experience the problems of 2020 again. COVID19 is obviously going to be with us for the near future however our problems appear small when we compare ourselves to the rest of the world. Read More »

Designed by Skip Morris, the Morrisfoam Predator was orignally developed as a trout fly, however it is equally effective as a trout fly.

While it is an effecitve top-water bug, it best fished on on a sinking line – the line finds the bottom while the fly (on an active retrieve) hovers just above the lake bed. Read More »