In 1934, Elsa Lowry (née Garrett) (1914-1991) expected to make 50,000 fishing flies a year in her small workshop in Katoomba, in central NSW. Each of her 500 varieties of fly were tied by hand and mimicked insects that fish loved to eat like ants, flies, dragonflies and crickets to ‘entice trout from …. secluded […]
As a young child approaching my grandparent’s farm out beyond Bugaldie, north-west of Coonabarabran, I used to stare out the car window. After many hours on the road, mesmerised by hours of endless gum trees, the Warrumbungle Mountains finally appeared. As we drove along the flat plain near the railway siding of Bugaldie, my mother […]
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