Designed to assist with the foundations for those keen but inexperienced persons who are interested in dry fly-fishing for trout on the river, the course will discuss the habits and habitats of the brown and rainbow trout, entomology (matching the hatch), river craft (reading the river) and the requisite equipment you will need to get started. From wading tips to false casting and roll casts, this presentation will ensure that you are kitted out with the essential knowledge for your next early morning rise. Ross’s unique skill in helping the novice to pre-visualise, you will feel like you are mid stream as trout vigorously launch into a mayfly hatch.
Questions will be taken throughout the presentation.
Ross Coulter began fly-fishing on the upper reaches of the Yarra river when he was 15 years old. He fished every night after school and kept count of the trout he caught until he counted a hundred fish.
This event is part of the current exhibition at BLINDSIDE - FORGETTING THE ORDINARY:
THE LAST STRAW, 19 AUG – 5 SEPT 2020
ARTISTS | Michael Georgetti, Ross Coulter, Andy Hutson, Paul Wotherspoon
What happens when four artists are brought together through an epic saga of deception, betrayal and multitudinous cups of tea?
After a brief spell at Grizedale Arts in the English lakes, Forgetting the Ordinary takes on some of the most complex questions facing contemporary art today – can art be useful? (And if so, what distinguishes it from everything else?) Where does the authenticity of experience lie? And what is it that transforms something from the banal to the beautiful?
Drawing from a disparate range of experiences – from rural drudgery in the English countryside and run-ins with London bobbies to fatherhood and fruitless fishing trips, these four artists – Ross Coulter, Andy Hutson, Michael Georgetti and Paul Wotherspoon come together for the last time to
make a defiant stand against the relentless onslaught of everyday ordinariness.
All Welcome.
Address:Level 7, Room 14, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12-6pm (during exhibition program) Closed on public holidays