15.4 lb RainbowTrout "Blast from the Past

Blast from the past is right, way back in '94 in fact. Hopefully this clip of Graeme Sinclair battling with a beast of a fish gets you fired up for the seaso...

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Tiki Tour Teaser

Back in March this year (it seems so long ago) Chris went into the hills with Tim, Jakub and Sam for some classic New Zealand north island back country fly fishing. We'll have a longer edit coming ...

Team Tuesday - Frank's Story

Frank is the assembly manager at Waterworks Lamson. Here tells us his story of life on the water and why trout fishing to him is just "bookends" to spey-fishing. Frank's Story from Waterworks-Lamso...

This week's episode of Pure Fly NZ is all about showcasing the year-round fly fishing opportunities New Zealand has on offer. Sure, we have an official fishing season but outside of that there are ...

Over the next few weeks the good folk at Confluence Films are giving up a full length feature for free. Each week we will see a new film from their stunning back catalogue in its entirety, so set a...

Happy 19/20 Season Opener!

Well here it is everyone, October 1st and by the looks of it there are more than a few people out there getting it done! We'll try and do a bit of a photo wrap up from some of the crew tomorrow but...

Manic Mondays - Myth Busting Re-run

Here's a re-run of a great clip shot by Manic Mate, Tola Chin, with special guest stars Rene Vaz and Totally Fly's, Yoshi San. The Ngongy should be ticking over quite nicely at the moment so get do...

Quick fire fly tie clips

Time for something a little bit different. We've been sent a couple of cool fly tying clips that we thought were worth sharing with you lot. First up is a neat stop motion number by Tareen Ellis fr...

Manic Mondays - Silver Tiger Taimen

John Sherman and the Simms crew go after something a little bit different, looks epic. Silver Tiger Taimen from Ryan Peterson on Vimeo .

Manic mate and dedicated fly fishing enthusiast, Jakub Kanok , has put together a very cool clip wrapping up his best moments of the summer season. While we're right in the middle of the winter fun...