Fly fishing in New Zealand - Hosted Week 1 Report

The past week has been spent down in Southland New Zealand fishing the mighty waters of the district for its wild brown trout. Southland has many famous rivers with fish good average size of around 3-4lb.  In the summer this region is particularly famous for its dry fly fishing with willow grubs and tussock cicadas forming the main prey for these trout. These are easily imitated by the fly angler and provide exciting dry fly fishing requiring precise presentation. The willow grubbing fish in particular test the anglers casting skills to the limit.

The clients on this trip managed to experience both of these unique dry fly fishing experiences with many first's. Ian Swan landed his first New Zealand trout on his first morning's fishing which also proved to be a personal best - his largest brown trout.

I spent a day with Paul Procter on one of the regions famous rivers and we had a blue skyway which would normally mean at this time of year that the fish would be feeding hard on cicadas. However the cold January had delated the insects activity and the fish did not even raise an eyebrow out our imitations. Luckily they were feeding hard subsurface on Paul's nymph imitations fooled many fish. The quality of several of these fish (2 fish over 7lb) were superb. We finished off the day with two fish off the top with a blowfly pattern.

While the fish weren't on cicada early in the week on our last day in Southland the weather ensured they were. I lovely warm New Zealand summers day saw the fish out and on taking cicadas off the top. There is nothing better than watching a large brown trout sat in a feeding lane taking these large insects. They will move a long way, often several meters,  in order to take their prey. We found many fish this day feeding in this way and John and Sarah Hodgkin both managed their personal best trout of 6lb and 7lb respectively.

Today we move up to the McKenzie District where the cicada fishing should be in full swing.

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Fly fishing Coyhaique, Chile - Client report

Chile is one of our most popular trout destinations and the wilderness surrounding the Coyhiaque in Southern Patagoinia offers a hugely diverse array of opportunties for fly fishing for trout of various species. Spring creeks, glacial lakes and freestone rivers provide a different location to fish each day and the lack of population makes you appreciate this vast wilderness. We received some nice feedback from Jon who has fished this region the past 3 years.

Dear Mat,

 

Thank you for organising my trip to Chile, it all went off very well.

 

The flights were trouble free and to schedule. The weather was very settled, but it settled on being windy, blue skies and dry, but windy, very windy – for the full fortnight – but one should expect this for Patagonia. Consistently windy, but not as extreme as some of the weather as you’ve had here.

 

Sebastian Galilea, the whole lodge, and the guides all looked after me very well. The number of guests has increased year on year from me being the sole guest in 2010 to there  being a few other guests, and some of them anglers, every night this year, but they were all pleasant folk.

 

I fished a couple of the glacial lakes in the first few days, but the wind made boating a little too difficult, so happily spent the rest of the time wading the wide variety of rivers. I caught fish, some good fish, a lot of fish, and on some days a lot of good fish.

 

Unfortunately my snaps have turned out to be very mediocre. Attached is a picture of an early cantaria beetle – they should be fully emerged when Peter gets there. Also attached is a spring creek brown and picking some pocket water.

 

I can’t deny I was disappointed that Sebastian Letalier is not guiding this year, but overall it was a very good trip, 15 days fishing was all too short. 3 days back at work and I’m ready to go fishing again.

 

I hope you had a good Christmas, and wish you all the best for the New Year.

 

Yours aye,

Jon

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Fly fishing the Maldives - December 2013 client report

A great report from one of the new resorts we are using for fly fishing in the Maldives. Calum and his family have visited the Maldives twice in 2013 and his latest trip in December 2013 sounded great.

Hi Mat

Apologies, meant to do this before the Xmas rush. Hope you had a great Christmas and Happy New Year.

We had a great holiday and I had some good fishing. I took the guide for four days as easy access to the various spots. Had a couple of bonefish on the first day, with a cast to a big GT and some permit but no luck - all on the sand bank. The next few days was a tough as building to a full moon but had some Bluefin and queenfish chasing baitfish on the sandbank. Caught a few small permit and one or two other species including small GT. The day after the full moon was great fishing as had some good Bluefin wading the reef, as well as grouper, snapper and triggers. Cast to a few big permit with the usual frustrating result. Also, cast to a very big GT who followed and slashed at the fly. The big one still eludes me.

Overall, maybe had 10 species on the fly and a very enjoyable trip. Family enjoyed it and would definitely go back. Apologies for messing around with accommodation but the upgrade was necessary in the end, -   hope you got the benefit. 

I have attached a few pics.

speak soon.

Calum

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