Fly fishing Ascension Bay: Trip report

Well the fly fishing in Ascension Bay continues to produce permit for our clients. A group of 5 anglers have just returned and had a successful week fishing the Ascension Bay flats. Three permit were landed as well a couple of bonefish approaching the 8-9lb mark and some big barracuda as well. Here's Phil's thoughts on their trip:

Hi Mathew,

Trip was great and we all agreed that overall it was our best trip yet. I have to say the place was ideal being very quiet and off the beaten track (literally !!) and Manuel and his team were excellent hosts.

The weather was not to good on a couple of days but the guides still managed to put us on some fish, and we now know why they say you must be able to cast 40ft into a howling gale to get the most out of the fishing.....!!

Attached are my best fish of the week all caught in one day when out with Manuel. I did have another permit of about 12lb's on the last day and Ellis also caught one earlier in the week about the same size.

Best regards
Phil







We have 1 space available for MAy 16th-24th trip and will be running another fortnight of trips in November and December 2009. For more information please visit our Special Offers page or email us.

New Zealand Fly Fishing Week 3

Week 3 in New Zealand involved a move to the North and a base out of Murchison. Murchison provides easy access to a huge number of wilderness waters all with healthy populations of large wild brown trout. The fishing was reasonably tough with accurate and delicate presentations required but when this was performed the big browns would willingly take the fly.





The guys had the pleasure of fishing with arguably one of New Zealands best trout guides in Peter Carty. Apart from being a great guide Peter is also one of the finest fly tiers in the country and is continually innovating and producing an amazing range of nymphs and dry flies. Peter kindly talked the guys through his fly boxes which was mouth watering stuff.






Our 2010 trips will be run the first 3 weeks of February. They will again fish Southland, McKenzie and Murchison and space is limited so for bookings please contact us.

New Zealand Hosted Fly Fishing Week 2

Week two of our hosted trip saw Peter's son Eddie join us to fish the major rivers of the McKenzie district. It turned out to be a week of big fish for Peter, eddie and Dormer from Week 1, with all landing fish that pushed the 8lb mark. The days were warm and this really turned on some great dry fly fishing with the browns keyed in on the alpine cicadas and the prolific numbers of grasshoppers in the high country. One day on a local creek saw the big browns eager to eat anything big that was splashed down on the surface.

The Ahurriri river fished very well with the guys landing some fine fish under the watchful guidance of Steve Carey.









All agreed the the scenery was equally as absorbing as the fishing.