Posts in July 2011
You can't grip and grin a baby
After an hour and around a hundred frames I've just realised it is easier to shoot photo's of fish than kids. Our project was to get a suitable shot of our 18 month old for a passport photo (he's coming on a fishing holiday). The brief is to get a head shot showing no emotion, with eyes to the camera and the mouth closed. Impossible !!.... Read more
Best Landing Nets in the World
I heard through the grapevine that the guys at Mclean Angling have had a bit of a rough time as a result of the Canterbury quakes. I'm guessing most of you will have seen or even own one of their great landing nets. I've got a bunch of them and totally love them. In fact in my mind there isn't a nicer range of landing nets in the world..... Read more
Scott A3 Rods Closeout
Scott are going to be replacing the popular A3 series of rods for this coming summer (we'll tell you more about this once we get all of the details) so I thought I'd just let you all know that our Scott dealers are closing out their stock of A3 rods at some hot prices..... Read more
Throwing a few loops with Mike Davis
I popped out with Mike Davis from Hunting and Fishing Rotorua a few weeks back to make some final tweaks on one of the new rod series from Airflo. Here are a couple of cool pics from our session..... Read more
Tongariro River Starting to Improve
We've had some better reports over the last couple of weeks from anglers fishing the Tongariro. There has certainly been a trend that runs are starting a lot later than usual and this years warm autumn and lack of rain seems to have only exagerated this effect..... Read more
Herb Spanagyl Tongariro Roll Cast Clinic
Herb Spanagyl is holding another one of his popular Tongariro Roll Casting Clinics at the Tongariro Trout centre in Turangi..... Read more
Simon Chu gets hooked on a Simon's Ugly
Greig Cousins from Palmerston North was good enough to share this picture with us of a Simon's Ugly firmly impregnated in the hand of it's originator. There is no doubt that it's the time of the year for pulling out the heavy nymphs, just make sure you are extra careful when tying one on..... Read more
Plenty of Kahawai Still Around
Yoshi from Rod and Reel in New Market sent in these pics of a few Kahawai caught recently on our new DNA saltwater flies..... Read more
Anything on Fly for Belinda Thomas
If the images from Fly Fishers Inc got you thinking about what would happen if you hooked an Eagle Ray on a fly rod then you might just like this image from Belinda Thomas..... Read more
Chris Beech gets Distracted by Carp on Fly
With so much trout water closed at this time of the year it's time to look to some other alternatives. Chris Beech from Victoria sent in this pic of the local carp which he's been giving a hammering lately with his S4s #5..... Read more