First trout trip
On Wednesday I had my first trout trip since returning to the UK. I went with my friend Alan to a small river around an hour North of where I live. It was a day of mixed weather with showers coming and going and also fluctuating temperatures which quite noticably affected the insects hatching off or not. We managed to pick up a number of fish, mainly small ones but we both managed a couple around the 1lb mark. I was catching on a small cdc and elk and Alan was catching on a small black klinkhammer – both seemed to have similar results. The river was a funny one, it wasn’t what...
Read MorePiking for the first time
I ventured out yesterday for my first fishing trip since returning to the UK. A decision was made to go and have a play with my new outfit and try my hand at pike fly fishing. Since I was out with my brother we had two outfits – my TCX rigged up with a Rio streamer tip line and my new Redington Red Fly 2 #9 which I picked up for an amazing £35 rigged with a 300 grain Teeny sinking integrated shooting head. I was mightily impressed with both outfits. The TCX as you probably know is a very stiff rod, the Redington on the other hand is a relatively medium actioned rod, definitely on the...
Read MoreLast day fishing in NZ…
… for now! The end of my year in NZ naturally took the form of saying goodbye to the many great people I had met in that country. My final weekend saw me at lunch in Dunedin’s octagon with a good friend and two friends from work – Will and Megan. It was during this lunch that the question was put, what are you doing this afternoon and tomorrow (saturday and sunday)? “Nothing, well… packing as I leave on Monday!” “We are heading fishing if you want to join? Drive up tonight, few beers in the pub, out fishing tomorrow?” There’s no need to go...
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