Posts in April 2011
Dreaming of Tarpon - Tapam Video
It's pretty dire weather accross New Zealand today, but if you're like me and stuck at your desk here is a pretty sweet video of two guys fishing for Tarpon from float tubes......... nice to see the Scott S4s rods being put to good use..... Read more
Scott F2 Fibreglass rods
A bunch of us have been enjoying fishing the Scott F2 glass rods this summer. Glass is certainly coming back in fashion for specific fly fishing applications there is even a website dedicated to glass fanatics called The Fibreglass Manifesto which is well worth keeping an eye on..... Read more
Website Updates - Waterworks Lamson
We have to admit to being a little slow getting the new pages built showing the Waterworks-Lamson products, but it is finally done..... Read more
Milbrook Lakes, Mayflies and Big Buck Rainbows
We've started our advertising in Fly Life magazine and are getting some great help from guys like Chris Beech who has been a long standing Scott Prostaffer. Here's a report from a recent weekend Chris spent with a bunch of Fly Life readers at Milbrook lakes near Melbourne..... Read more
Reader Drop Shots
Here is a cool sequence of drop shots sent to us by readers around New Zealand..... Read more
Manic PMP Practice Fly Rod & The Pimped out Version
Finally we have got our Manic practice rods sorted and available. It took us around 10 minuted to design the rod and 2 1/2 years to source the line..... Read more
Jack Kos Drop Shot Fiordland
Chris Dore leaked this photo of Jack Kos from Christchurch with this drop shot taken in Fiordland last month. It's our guess that the fish is trying to get away from the sleeves..... Read more
2Another Drop Shot
We've had some great feedback from our Drop shot Issue of Fly Fishers Inc , it seems we are all pretty good at dropping fish and pulling a face during the process. Here's another one that came in today from Belinda Thomas from Auckland..... Read more
Quick Saltwater Fly Fish Before Work
I popped out this morning for a quick fish before work with Yoshi from Rod and Reel in Newmarket. We didn't see any of the work ups that had been heating up the harbour over the past few months but still managed to find a few rat kings to keep us entertained..... Read more
New Lamson Speedster Fly Reels
Our buddies at Lamson have just put out a new reel called the speedster. In short it's cool and we've all decided to buy them for ourselves. The log description is, the speedster is an ultra large arbour reel with diameters quite a bit wider than our current reels. This gives you quicker line retrieve..... Read more