Techy Thursdays - Gink's 5 Winter Tips

With winter comes the cold and a bunch of challenges unto themselves. The guys at Gink & Gasoline share with us what works for them in the upper hemisphere, check the link for some good, practi...

Team Tuesday - Simon Chu (aka Chuey)

Father, husband, fishaholic... Still got a day job but always dreaming of the ultimate life as a troutbum. Ordinary guy living his life like a movie. Lucky enough to have fished all over NZ includi...

Friday Fly Day - Flyday the 13th

In the theme of today (scary / spooky etc et al) we thought we'd try and identify our most terrifying fly in the range, one that strikes fear into the hearts of fish around the globe, a fly so horr...

Ronan Creane's Lake Wakatipu Winter Mission

By Ronan Creane of Ronan's Fly Fishing Missions A BLEAK WINTER FLY FISHING FORECAST After a very wet week the river options for the weekend were virtually non-existent. It had to be a lake. The...

Team Lyttle on the hunt

The family that plays together, stays together and this is being put into practice by Gary Lyttle and crew on the Hinemaiaia yesterday while chasing some fresh run fish. While they didn't quite hav...

Manic Mondays - Nik & Chuey go troppo

It's raining pretty good outside and the forecast is for plenty more over the next week so we figure a bit of a flashback of the season past is in order. Here we have these two fellas, Simon Chu ak...

International Competition Round Up

Well times flies and both the Worlds and Commonwealth fly fishing competitions are done and dusted with varying results across the board. As far as the Worlds are concerned it was the hometown hero...

Salty Saturday - Clinton Isaac checks in

Here's a couple of bloody good roosters that Clinton Issac (also a bloody good rooster) has been tangling with recently. Looks nice and warm where he is...

Conference Time

So Matt and Rene are down in Hamiltron (the city of the future) playing good cop / bad cop at the annual Hunting & Fishing conference. It's no mean task taking a sample of the full Manic range ...