Fly fishing Victoria

Steep trout rivers north of the Divide around Mansfield — Howqua, Jamieson, Delatite, King and the upper Goulburn — plus the bigger Mitta Mitta and Dartmouth country further east, and a short summer that starts when the snowmelt ends.

Forty-four kilometres of south-west Victorian river running into Warrnambool — a wild brown trout stream through the Grassmere and Woodford farm country above Bromfield Street Weir, and an estuary of perch and bream below it, with the Woodford gauge on the upper stretch.

One name, three rivers in north-east Victoria — a wild alpine trout stream above Lake Dartmouth, a cold regulated tailrace below the wall with a closed season of its own, and a slower lower river down to Hume where Murray cod come into the picture.

Four hundred and forty kilometres from the roof of Australia to the sea at Marlo — alpine melt water above the Snowy scheme pondages, a regulated Monaro river below Jindabyne past Dalgety, a wilderness gorge across the Victorian border, and a floodplain estuary at the end — with the Island Bend gauge drawn on the page.