Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Guided Fly Fishing Trip For Peter Greenway From England
Picked up Peter Greenway from England for a days guided back country fly fishing in New Zealand’s Central North Island today. We started the day strong missing a strike on one fish and then hooking and losing Peters biggest ever brown trout. We then cast and spooked a few before bringing in a good brown [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Productive Last Day For John Pyle And Peter Ruscoe
16 hooked and 11 landed mainly around 3 pounds but with 1 at 5 pounds to day for Peter and John. We continued our friendly Aussie - Kiwi banter - thankfully the guys had a great sence of humour. Peter took an involuntery swim around lunch - much to our amusement. John was more [...]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Great Trout For Peter From Australia On His Second Day Ever Of Fly Fishing
A beautiful day greeted us out back country this morning though a little colder than what these two Aussie doctors are used to. In all the guys hooked 7 trout today and landed 4, of which one was over 8 lbs, 1 at 6.75 and 1 at 5.75 lbs. Peter’s (pictured above), was the biggest [...]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
First Day Guiding John And Peter From Australia From Spot X Lodge
Met John and Pete this morning from Australia at Spot X Lodge for the first of 3 days guided fly fishing in New Zealand’s central North Island with me. We travelled just a short distance from the lodge and were fishing within half an hour of the guys finishing a good breakfast of Bacon [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Fishing With The Boys During Duck Shooting Season
Went out scoping some new winter water today with Charlie and Earl from Spot X. Earl is a local helicoptor pilot and has done a lot of bird shooting but not a huge amount of fly fishing so today was also a bit of a tutoring session for him. Charlie landed a couple of [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Testing New Busse und Pelican Fly Reel From Germany
Went out briefly this morning to a test out a new fly reel I have been given and was quite impressed. The reel by Busse und Pelican from Germany seems to be well designed and constructed and having had a few friends with reel maintainance back-grounds have a look at the inside works they [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Great Days Fly Fishing For Peter And Sharon From Australia
Had a great day today with Peter and Sharon today from Australia - unfortunately the best photos are on their camera including the one of Sharnons 6 and 1/4 pound brown trout which kicked the day off nicely. Shortly after Peter landed a nice brown and the team then proceeded to land a further [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Guiding Peter Baker And Sharon Williams From Australia
Guided Peter and Sharon today on their first of two days fly fishing guiding with me while staying at spot X, Was a little worried last night with all the rain and a few rivers were out but we mangaed to find some water clear enough to nymph.
The fishing was a little slower than nomal [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Guiding Wei-Li And Al
Guided Wei Li from Auckland and his father-in-law from USA on Friday and due to duck shooting all weekend this is the first chance I have had to update my blog. The guys were due to fish with me last Wednesday but because of bad weather on Tuesday, I advised them not to come. [...]