Late season brown

When there's snow on them thar hills then you had better be getting down deep. Steven hoskings displays a deep nympher taken on a Manic Simons Ugly fly - somewhere in the north island :) Here's the...

Simon Chu Gets it done in Aitutaki

Simon Chu from Dunedin has just got back from an epic trip to Aitutaki. I know you'll all be thinking, does that guy actually work, what does his wife think, didn't he just do a big trip to Western...

Tore Nilsen joins Manic

Tore Nilsen has joined our team here at Manic. To summarise Tore is a cool guy with an extensive back ground in the fly tackle industry and film production. In the tackle industry he has run a dist...

Auckland Snapper Fishing from the Shore

Unfortunately Yoshi at Rod and Reel has sworn me to secrecy on where to go (although I think if you go in and ask him he'll tell you), but here is a nice pic of a good sized snapper caught off the ...

Chris Dore's Drop Shot Sequence

Chris Dore from Queenstown shared this classic drop shot sequence of a client with fish. Rugby is over, it's time to go fishing. Well recovered, what a great fish!

Catching up on sleep and time on the water

I had a weekend out on one of our lakes a few weeks back. To be honest I caught up on more sleep than fish. I did manage to get a bunch of shots of the guys getting it done. I didn't manage to get ...

North Island Browns and South Island Rainbows

It's often said that if you want big browns head to the South Island and for the rainbows stick to the North Island. Well here is a pic of Gary Lyttle with a North Island brown and Simon Wilkinson ...

Fly Fishing Hinchinbrook Channel

I've just got back from a family holiday in Cairns, whilst i was away I managed to slip away for a day to fish the Hinchinbrook area with Dave Bradley of Australian Fly Fishing Outfitters . Here ar...

Best Landing Nets in the World

I heard through the grapevine that the guys at Mclean Angling have had a bit of a rough time as a result of the Canterbury quakes. I'm guessing most of you will have seen or even own one of their g...