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by Didymo Dave ……….Fly fishermen who fish the Taupo area are keen to know when the spawning runs have commenced? They ask questions like are … Continue reading - Our Grateful ThanksOur extreme gratitude to all who have responded to our plea for assistance in our new fund-raising efforts. With a couple of legal battles looming, … Continue reading
- Alarming Nitrate Levels in Water and RiversOpinion by Charlie Baycroft News from Greenpeace that many Southlanders and Cantabrians are exposed to levels of nitrate that are potentially hazardous to human health … Continue reading
- DOC Increases Hut Prices for Taxpaying publicPress release by Department of Conservation The Department of Conservation is updating accommodation prices for huts, lodges, some campsites, the West Coast’s Paparoa Track, and off-season rates for some Great … Continue reading
- NZ Lakes Are Ailing With Health Issues“The Guardian” reports Only 2% of New Zealand’s large lakes are in good health, bleak report finds. The number of cows has nearly doubled in a … Continue reading
- Many Endangered or Lost Species, but Some Extinctions Are InevitableOpinion by Paul Revere Many believe – among them ecologists – believe the world is beset with a massive extinction, the sixth mass … Continue reading
- Winter Trout Fishing Down Southby Sally Forth While the Taupo-Rotorua area is usually associated with winter fly fishing, there are many other regional options – and even down south … Continue reading
- Stick to Basics in Fly tyingby Peter Langlands In recent years there has been a lot of activity on the internet about new trout fly patterns. However, while some patterns … Continue reading
- Memories Can be Better Than Today’s Realityby Tony Orman Back in the 1980s I discovered a fabulous small trout stream. I’ve always had a soft spot for small streams. After all … Continue reading
- Why Rivers MatterAbridged There are 200,000 kilometres of wildly varying waterways in the UK but do we understand their true value and the threats they face asks … Continue reading
- How the Rakaia turned into a pipe for irrigatorsFrom newsroom.co.nz by David Williams ENVIRONMENT How the Rakaia turned into a pipe for irrigators Problems with protecting the Rakaia River were predicted years ago, … Continue reading
- A Top Trout Fly Lure – The Woolly BuggerBy Alan Burgess of fishingmag.co.nz I remember some years ago being in a local tackle store in Christchurch – which shall remain nameless. Whenever the … Continue reading
- Obsession with Pine Trees an Environmental and People DisasterPress release – Council of Outdoor Recreational Associations of NZ An outdoor and conservation forum says the loss of a boy’s life at Waikanae Beach … Continue reading
- The Rakaia River – We Don’t Need Another Bloody Model!Opinion by Dr Peter Trolove Subtitle:-Laws Without Enforcement Are Meaningless Last Thursday, (26 January), I attended a small meeting comprised of anglers and others concerned about … Continue reading
- A Puzzling Day – November 23, 1935This article was published in the January 1936 issue of the “New Zealand Fishing and Shooting Gazette” No sport in the world can perplex its … Continue reading
- Streams Drying Up Under Onslaught of Pine Treesby Ben Hope Late last year, research commissioned by Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ), found 54 percent of New Zealanders want … Continue reading
- Trout fishing tips to improve your catchFrom The Fishing Website Late night fishing for trophy fish Often trout become shyer as we move towards summer in response to angling pressure. Sea-run … Continue reading
- BEHOLD, THE BEST TROUT FLY IN THE WORLD!from NZ Trout App So, you now know what a fly is, what it is intended to do, who makes them and where to get … Continue reading
- Tony Orman and Black Tail Creekor perhaps Nothing Gained Without Effort It had been a week of rain at home – every day! It did not really matter I thought … Continue reading
- The Businessman and the Fishermanby “Trutta” One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach, with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line … Continue reading
- Of Trout and Educationby Tony Orman Remember the good old days when we had a five day working week, there were no trout fishing guides, virtually no 4 … Continue reading
- Fly Pattern or Presentation?by Ben Hope The other day I came across an article from the US where the author said that trout brains are small, they’re not very … Continue reading
- Of Soft Hackled Fliesby Tony Orman Once in the US at a Federation of Fly Fishers’ Conclave,in Eugene, Oregon, I met trout fishing author Sylvester Nemes. Sylvester was … Continue reading
- Some Thoughts on Trout Fishing Managementby Tony Orman One winter morning quite a few decades ago, I took three trout on a Hawkes Bay river. Winter fishing had just been … Continue reading
- The Environmental Disaster of Carbon FarmingOpinion by Tony Orman In April last year, I went trout fishing to a stream that is a tributary of the Wairau River. … Continue reading
- Misguided, Ill-conceived DOC’s Whitebait “Management”Trout have often been blamed as invasive predators of whitebait by Forest and bird and DOC but a Waikanae whitebait Steve Veail, former national president … Continue reading
- Great Book on How Glaciers Have Moulded New Zealand“Vanishing Ice” subtitled “Stories of New Zealand’s Glaciers” by Lynley Hargreaves, published by Potton and Burton. Price $59.99. Reviewed by Tony Orman Perhaps you’ve been fishing a … Continue reading
- The Best Dry and Nymph Trout Flies?From Epic Flyfishing USA (abridged) Ok, I’ve led you astray, there aren’t ten, there are three, maybe four. Stick with me here. Thinking back over the past … Continue reading
- Don’t Forget Wee Wet Flies and Kate McLarenby Tony Orman You may be too young to remember the little wet flies that were all the vogue in trout fishing prior to the … Continue reading
- Is Catch and Release As Good As It Feels?by Tony Orman Frank Murphy has fished the upper Motu River situated between Whakatane and Gisborne for just on 40 years.He spent some nine younger … Continue reading
