Club Fishing Competition…

I decided to have a go at catching a decent fish to enter my fishing club competition, there are some pretty experienced fishermen in our club and it is quite a challenge to get the better of some of these guys. Again I chose the Shag River which is less than 5 minutes drive from [...]

November catch up….

What can I say… I suck at keeping things up to date and the journal section is no exception. I do have a good excuse for my tardiness and that is it is much better to be fishing than writing about it.
I have been doing a bunch of fishing lately, all at pretty much at [...]

Just when you think you have seen it all….

It was a very pleasant afternoon, overcast but warm and still.
I decided to take a look at the Shag River so I grabbed my gear and off I went.  It was as I had thought, still and warm with a bit of a mayfly hatch going on.
I saw a few fish, hooked and lost one [...]

Are you #$*!$#% Kidding…

After a great start to the season it has all pretty much turned to shit over the last couple of days.
Firstly as I tried to change spools on my reel the spool wouldn’t go on the spindle, a quick look revealed that the bearing had fallen to pieces so I re-fitted the spool holding the [...]

Old Fishing Books update

I have spent a little bit of time updating and improving the layout of the Free Old Fishing Books page.
The result is a much better way of displaying the books as well as a better way of hosting them.  It is really simple to open the file to read it and a very simple click [...]

The Maniototo… My first trip.

For the last couple of seasons I have intended to get inland and fish in the Maniototo area and until yesterday all I had done was think about going.
I was invited to join a friend on a trip to Lake Onslow as he was going to take his boat up and have a look around… [...]

WooHoooo It’s fishing season again…

For weeks I had been counting down the days until opening day, I had a license, my gear was all checked and I had arranged time of work.
Opening day arrives and I go to work… Yup that’s right I go to work it was a busy time and I thought I’d go in and help [...]

Old Fishing Books Update

I have just moved the old fishing book pdf’s to a new server which should cure any of the recently experienced hosting problems.
I uploaded a few new books and will over the next couple of weeks upload some more.
The books are still free to download…. Simply use the “Old Fishing Books” link at the top of the page [...]

I can’t go fishing soooo…..

The Fishing Season Ends.

Geeez its that time already… The 30th of April is the end of the fishing season here which means all but a couple of kilometers of river are closed now until the 1st of October which is like half a lifetime away.
One day and already I am looking forward to opening day
The only [...]