PHOTO BY STEVE DALLY


A client of Steve Dally’s releases a brown trout during a recent winter fishing trip.


Love of fishing started


Aussie stalks wintry White River for


trophy brown trout By Kevin Pieper Photos by Kevin Pieper


ind whips the surface of the White River into a frothy mix as Steve Dally casts an 8-inch fly. It’s a gray, over- cast January morning. It’s a brisk 26 degrees. It’s the


kind of day Dally dreams of. He works the yellowish, ginger-col-


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ored fly back to the boat like a bass fisherman working a jerk bait. He casts again. Then again and again, his fly rod bending and arcing in the wind. “It’s a game of a thousand casts,”


Dally says. “It’s the challenge, man.” Even as a young boy in a small


fishing village located along the coast of the Australia state of Tasmania, Dally loved a challenge. “It was five minutes to the beach on


first, it was getting it printed first,” Dally says. “It was the game, the competition, that I liked more than anything else.”


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my bike, because it was a bloody great hill we had to go down,” he says. “Com- ing home was a bugger.” The hill didn’t stop him, obviously.


The water became his life — a life of a country boy that happened to involve salt water. “Instead of going deer hunting, we went fishing,” Dally says. When he wasn’t on the water fishing,


snorkeling or surfing, Australian Rules Football and cricket commanded Dal- ly’s attention. As a young man, he then got into the “biggest game around” — covering politics as a print journalist. “It was the fun of finding out stuff


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