New Zealand & Australia Fly Fishing Blog
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...
Read moreFriday Fly Day - Dore's Top 3 for Winter '17
Winter fishing getting you down? With very low and clear conditions for the majority of winter thus far, your usual winter fly box might be a little too much. Big, flashy streamers, size 8 glo bugs...
Read moreTechy Thursday - DIY Sink Tips
When it comes to sink tips for two hand fly fishing we really are spoilt for choice. Airflo Flo Tips and salmon/steelhead weight Airflo polyleaders cover a wide range of angling conditions and are ...
Read moreSome nights on the water, movement just isn't enough, for one reason or another, be it picky fish, an abundance of food or maybe floating debris following a fresh, the fish just aren't noticing / e...
Read moreFriday 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...
Read moreTeam Tuesday - Gone West Sustainable Travel
Gone West is a platform to provide exposure to the artist involved with photography, videography, painting , creating writing, adventure journalism and anything else that conveys a love for the ear...
Read moreSalty Saturday - King Tide Salt Fly wants to connect
Lucas Allen of King Tide Salt Fly has written a very useful piece (hopefully the first of many) on salt fly connections, specifically the backing to fly line link which is a very important one to g...
Read moreIt's not often team Manic gets to fish together and we were still two members short in the forms of Rene Vaz and Chris Dore. We did have a couple of ring ins to take their places with Jacob Freeman...
Read moreDavid Anderson's Flylife Magazine review of the new Scott G Series fly rods
PHOTO: David Anderson / Flylife Magazine The iconic (and we don't use that word lightly) Scott G2 has been updated and tweaked creating the new G Series line of presentation fly rods. This is a b...
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