Fly fishing Christmas Island: Trip Report

We have a had a small group of anglers on Christmas Island for the past couple of weeks. Here is a breif trip report from Paul from Scotland. His fishing partners, Toni Karuvaara editor of Chasing Silver magazine and Arto are still there chasing the bonefish, giant trevally, yellowfin tuna and triggerfish the inhabit this pristine coral atoll.

Hi Mat,

Just a quick update on the christmas island trip. The island is a truly wonderful place to both visit and fish. When first booking the trip my main objective was to bonefish, however I quickly realised there is far more to the island than just bones. Stalking triggerfish in the coral proved to be to be both exciting and addictive, hooking the triggers was the easy part !! keeping them out of their coral homes was the hard part.





The island also has a very health population of bluefin trevally,sight fishing double figure fish in water waist deep is an experience that wont soon be forgotten. A days of shore fishing also proved to be succesful and saw tuna,trevally,seabass,queenfish and rainboow runners brought to the boat.



So all in all a wonderful trip was had in superb company.

Many thanks Matt.

Paul, UK.

For more information on our Christmas Island trips please email me

Ireland Salmon Fishing

We are pleased to announce our association with the Lower River Caragh fishery in County Kerry, Ireland. Having just spent the past three days there I think that this 3 mile stretch of water will produce some fine catches for our clients over the coming years. Having arrived on 1st of April to very low water conditions we thought that the river may make fools of us!! However there was enough fish moving in the dozen or so fishable pools to think we were at least a chance.



Our first morning on the water we concentrated on the lower pools where the tide still has some influence. Mark Nicoll jumped of a small fish, probably a kelt or sea trout. It wasn't until the Friday afternoon that the fish really started to get excited with an onset of some rain. Several pulls but no solid connections kept us interested and with a day to go confidence spread through the camp.



Our last morning our arrival was meet with little action through the first few hours. We supposed the large fish that were moving the previous evening had moved on up to Lough Caragh. But, a slight change in the weather as the wind picked up had fish rolling over the surface again. Before long I picked up a kelt on a Ally's shrimp and then an hour later Mark Nicoll managed a superb spring salmon of an estimated 14lb. An absolute cracker of a fish.



We will be heading back in July to check out the grilse fishing and then we will be hosting 2 groups next April for those big spring salmon. For those interested in fishing the Lower Caragh fishery please contact us for details of pricing and travel logistics.

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.

Salmon fishing, Varzina River, Russia

We are pleased to announce our association with the Varzina River Company who run camps on the famous Varzina river for both Atlantic salmon and brown trout. We have rod availabilities throughout the prime weeks of June, July and August in 2009 on the Varzina. For more information on 2009 rates and availability contact us on +44 1621743711 or at m.mchugh@flyodyysey.co.uk

Fly fishing New Zealand: Hosted Trip Week 1

Here is a short trip report on the first week of our 2009 hosted New Zealand trips. The first week we visited Southland with Peter and Dormer fishing the waters around Lumsden. Great weather ensured plenty of sight fishing to rising browns and Rainbows. Peter managed his biggest eve brown trout on our first day of fishing on the Oreti, while Dormer fullfilled a lifelong ambition of landing a wild river rainbow from a stream in Fiordland. Stu Tripney of Stu's Fly Shop in Athol provided the guys with a couple of great days guiding on the Mataura to cap off the week. Here are a few thoughts from Dormer...

Hi Mat

Thank you for a fishing holiday of a lifetime. I was looked after from start to finish. I was well fed and watered and always had a comfortable bed. Best of all, the guides that you provided enabled me to catch fish. As you know I had never fished in NZ but with your guidance I managed to catch real wild fish, some a little larger than I was hoping for. I will be coming back next year, for you have given me the reason to return to a fishermans paradise. I will get the photos to you soon.

All the best
Dormer