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New Zealand & Australia Fly Fishing Blog

Following on from last week, and as I'm focusing heavily on thrashing the tidal zones myself at present, casting for distance is todays topic. It's no use having all the gear and no idea so here's ...

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...

New for 2017 is the Airflo Forge, a worthy addition to anyones quiver. With a heritage shared by the popular Platinum Chalkstream and Superdri Backcountry, the Forge is a price pointed flyline pack...

There are a lot of cracking trout coming from the Twizel area canals at the moment so we asked our mate, and canal guru Charles Smith on his favourite three of the moment. Dores Mr Glister The Cana...

Techy Thursday - Stream Mouth Intel

PHOTO: Jakub Kanok Picture your typical lake stream mouth. These can fish well at this time of year but are not as easy to fish as some think. On a clear day you may hit one or two fish, but they...

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 ...

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...