Friday Fly Day - Grown Up Damsels

What better way to celebrate Valentines Day then to talk about probably the most romantic bug out there, the adult Damsel fly. Aww, bless. You'll generally know when it's time to be tying one of th...

Salty Saturday - This is what happens...

...when you put the fly rod down and decide to throw some salty stick baits. Poor old Belinda Thomas paid the price! Luckily she's as tough as nails and let the others keep fishing for an hour or s...

That's not a Bone...

THIS is a Bone! All 31 inches of it. Yep. The Radian 907/4 works for Bonefish. Scott rod designer, Jim Bartschi displays the evidence.

The Complete Angler Fly School

If you're thinking of getting someone into fly fishing or want to brush up and refresh a few things yourself then this is the ticket. Assuming you live in the Canterbury region that is. It kicks of...

Techy Thursdays - 3 simple tips (x2): Induce a fish to take your fly

Text: Des Armstrong Photography: Stu Hastie No matter what type of fishing you are doing be it river fishing or stillwater fishing you can increase your hook up rate if you induce or add animation ...

Team Tuesday - Meet Matt Jones

Upon being asked by Matt (Wilson) to produce a little write up about me I jumped at the chance not realising how ridiculously difficult it is to write a somewhat äóìmodestäó article about myself f...

Loch Style Fly Fishing Clinic

There is a whole lot more to fishing lakes from a boat than just chucking flies out. Here is your opportunity to learn the how, the why and the when from English loch style legend John Horsey and r...

Techy Thursdays - Low Down On Leaders

Here's the low down on leaders: 1. If you want a long leader whatever you do don't just get a tapered leader and add lots of tippet. The final tippet section of your leader shouldn't be any longer ...

Manic (depression) Mondays - What a weekend....

I want to go back in time to last Friday. The world seemed filled with purpose. Desk bound, I now spiral into the deepest and darkest of depressions, lamenting of helicopters, big fish and beautifu...