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geoff hall
Established in 1994 we guide and teach everyday of the year. Streamcraft is our specialty and we were the first and are still the only people to run drift boat fly fishing trips on the Goulburn River. Casting lessons, fly tying lessons and fly fishing lessons are all provided on our unique property less than two hours from Melbourne. A myriad of local streams gives us the perfect venue to teach budding fly fishers and guide more experienced visitors into a trout or two. Our raft trips on the Goulburn River are a specialty and will leave you wondering why you never did one earlier. Annual trips to the Swampy Plain River in NSW where we run drift boat trips and NZ where we are accredited guides are very popular and are highly recommended. These trips can be hard to to get a spot on as they regularly fill with returning clients year after year. For over a decade we have been teaching new fly fishers, guiding visitors, running drift boat trips, giving out information on the local area and generally been serving the local fly fishing population. We offer the complete package from integrated, graduated learning to being able to sell you a local fly pattern and send you to the right spot for the evening rise. Check out our website for a lot more info. Goulburn Valley Fly Fishing Centre was established in 1994 by Geoff Hall and David Pickering. They ran a small guiding/outfitting business from the back of the take away store in Thornton. Antony joined them as a partner in 1996 and they quickly built their world class facility and it continues to grow with every season that passes. David Pickering Geoff has been a fly fisher all of his life. He has extensive experience across Victoria, NSW, Tasmania and New Zealand and has been a full time trout guide for the past fifteen years. He spent much of his youth growing up and fishing around Alexandra and moved to Thornton in the mid-seventies. He is a highly trained rafting guide with experience on the Goulburn and Swampy Plains rivers.
He and David Pickering were the first to run a fly fishing drift boat down the Goulburn river and are responsible for developing and refining many techniques which are now considered mandatory for fishing this river. Geoff's professional background in education makes him a first class instructor. He is a people person that rarely seems to switch off and has now been teaching fly fishing for over forty years. Geoff contributes widely to the fishing industry's social, economic and political agenda. He was a member of the Fisheries Co-management Council and also enjoyed a short tenure as president of the Australian Trout Foundation.
He has worked closely with VR Fish over the years and has gone to bat for trout on numerous occasions. He jointly owns Goulburn Valley Fly Fishing Centre, Victoria's only destination Fly Shop and guiding service, with David Pickering and Antony Boliancu.
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Located
in Central Victoria in the town of Thornton between Eildon and
Alexandra, the mighty Goulburn River flows by our back gate.
Australia’s finest fly fishing facility with private lakes, a man
made private spring creek that’s open all year round, luxury
lakeside cottage accommodation, comprehensive destination fly shop
and full guide services.