Salty Saturday - AFO Hinchinbrook Challenge wrap up

The AFO Hinchinbrook Challenge is obviously based in the scenic Hinchinbrook region of far north Queensland, the area has lots to offer fly anglers with its vast shallow areas holding multiple fly ...

Friday Fly Day - The Mighty Pheasant Tail

Another OG of the fly scene, the pheasant tail nymph has been around since nymphing became a thing, and still today catches anything that swims. The reason? It simply looks like what trout eat. Ver...

Friday Fly Day - Mega Rabbit Silver

Looking for a killer fly to pull about the estuaries and upper tidal areas? The Mega Rabbit Silver is a newbie to the Manic Fly Collection and judging by how many my mates taxed from my fly box thi...

Team Tuesday - Where's Yoshi?

With the closing down of Totally Fly that's been the question on everyone's mind, "Where's Yoshi?". Well, let us fill you in... Currently on a quick trip back home to battle Gutter Carp in the urba...

Friday Fly Day - The O.G. Dry fly

The Cochybondhu is a quintessential terrestrial pattern, subtle in the film but super enticing to trout. For all the newbies, the Cochy was the Kiwi anglers Blowfly, before the Blowfly, often our f...

Team Tuesday - Gus nails a stripper, I mean Striper

Manic's warehouse manager and Aussie Rules aficionado, Gus Lapin is over in the US at the moment getting away from our winter and doing a bit of fishing. One of his goals of the trip was to nail a ...

Manic Monday - Pure Fly crew braving the elements

Dave Shaw, Anto Hall and Charles Smith just spent a VERY chilly weekend fishing down at the canals for an episode in the very soon to air 2017 season of Pure Fly NZ. Good thing they were all kitted...

Team Tuesday - Welcome to the team Ben Munro!

With the imminent departure of Mad Dog Matty MacDonald this Friday we've been lucky enough to get the talented and mild mannered Ben Munro to come in and take his place as the new Operations Manage...

Friday Fly Day - Bloody good Buggers

The timeless woolly bugger is one of those "if you could pick five flies for the rest of your life" candidates. Very effective in a lot of different situations, easy to tie and fish really have som...