Exmouth 2013: Final 3 Weeks
My final 3 weeks in Exmouth didn’t quite follow the weather pattern of the preceding weeks. The first large swell of the year coincided with spring tides and high winds to colour up the water to an extent the gulf was blown out for weeks. Fortunately before that happened I managed to get a couple of great fishing days in with Craig. The first day was one of pristine sunshine as I’d come to expect in Exmouth. We set off mid morning with a plan to chase blue bastards and permit in the bottom of the gulf. Bastards get their name by the fact they have a very unpredictable feeding...
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New Zealand 2013: A Dry Fly Short from The Fly Commission on Vimeo. The first Fly Commission production has finally been completed and uploaded to the web. It’s roughy 6 minutes of superb dry fly action from New Zealand’s South Island. Please let me know what you think as there are plans a foot for many more films in the future. If you were following the on-the-road reports a few months ago you’ll already know the stories that go along with the film but just in case you missed them here’s the...
Read MoreExmouth 2013: Week 3 and 4
Fishing somewhere new and learning from the bottom up with very little help is a very interesting and rewarding experience but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t come with its low moments. I was going through a spell where motivation was lacking as I was getting a bit disillusioned fishing hard every day and having very little to show for it other than the same fish over and over again in roughly the same sizes. You try to learn as much as possible, I write down all my experiences, weather observations, fish observations, absolutely anything that might help me piece together the...
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