Big Fish and Boring Days
According to experienced fly fishermen, the backcountry of New Zealand offers the world’s best and most challenging sight fishing for trout.
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Shore-Based Fly-Fishing for Kingfish in Golden Bay
One could ask: how can a shore-based fisherman find kingfish in such a vast area? Well, he can’t cover it all – just the water he can safely negotiate, but that area is still extensive.
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Gear to Prepare
This change in season also brings with it the most anticipated day of the year for any fly angler: Opening Day.
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The 40th Anniversary of the Klinkhåmer Special
Those first casts, I’ll never forget. A lot has happened since then, and my Klinks have been floating in many rivers, drifting through the roughest rapids and the smoothest currents all over the globe.
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Determination at Gold Creek
I’d booked a trip with Helisika for my 12-year-old son, Luca, and me to head into the Gold Creek block.
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Kahawai on Fly at Kairaki
Fine day, blue river, light northerly … what better place to be than Kairaki? The mission? To catch a ‘birthday salmon’ on my fly rod.
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Drinking Safely on the Go
When heading off on an outdoor mission, there are a couple of things always first to mind and essential for survival: food and water. A
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Taking a Walk on the Dark Side
On August 5, weather conditions would be nigh on perfect at The Lake: fine with light north-westerlies.
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The Beginning of the End – How to make the most of late-season fishing
We all know that feeling when summer begins to wane... it’s a time that marks the end of those long, seemingly endless days spent on the river ...
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Chasing Southern Blues
My introduction to Milford Sound was in January 2022, and I quickly fell in love with this incredible place.
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A Fishing Odyssey Part Two – Swinging in the Rain
As we boarded the Interislander ferry in Picton in intermittent rain, I steeled myself for a nauseating ride – I’d heard plenty of Cook Strait horror stories.
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The Huts of Lake Daniells – Part Two – From Terror and Tragedy to Triumph
The terrace on the south-western corner of Lake Daniells, situated about forty feet above the lake, has supported the construction of three huts.
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