| Monday: | Paul Arden |
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| Tuesday: | Graeme Christie |
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| Wednesday: | Tracy&James |
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| Thursday: | Martyn White |
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| Friday: | Mika Lappalainen |
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| Saturday: | Rickard Gustafsson |
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| Sunday: | David Siskind |
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Tiang
Monday, 2 November 2026
Just out from Sungai Tiang. Considering the amount of rain that’s fallen recently it was surprisingly clear. We had a group fishing from Ipoh. They only fished the lower sections. I fished one afternoon rainy spell with a dry and a nymph combination. Many fish looked at the dry…. As in MANY!! But only a few ate it and stuck, and a couple more came to the nymph. I’m sure with some tweaking of the dry fly it will be some awesome sport. The challenge is whether to go bigger or smaller. Smaller you hook more fish, bigger you tend to catch the bigger ones. Decisions decisions.
One Box Short
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Labour Weekend, as threatened. Hawke's Bay. I was there for my daughter's football tournament but I managed to sneak a couple of quick fish sessions with success. Last week I wrote about a blank afternoon on this river a year ago and the smelt flies I planned to bring back for it. The river looked different and it had more of a dry fly or dry dropper vibe, so the smelts only experienced about 10 minutes of action and then got consigned to the bottom of the bag.
On the Red Carpet
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
We've had a very busy October and have now finished the casting year for the BFCC. The last event was in France where James, Mark, Chris and I attended the Argentat Fly Fishing show with the Fly Casting Lab team. James and I entered both the indoor and outdoor casting competitions and this year I actually did OK considering I was casting against an all male competition.
Scampi
Thursday, 29 October 2026
This week's fly is another multipurpose flats pattern that started out as a bonefish fly. The deadly Bonefish Scampi.
Nightmare
Friday, 30 October 2026
It is wednesday when wrote this one. Paul is in Sungai Tiang thursday-Sunday or something like that so request was to write bit earlier. And I had awesome plan for Wednesday due weather forecast. We had slaughter on Tuesday again and I had booked masseur (torturer) after that. So Wednesday would be total day off with easy living.
And plan was to go fishing on our lake as not much wind or rain like forecast said. Wednesday morning reality check, wind from hell and rain like monsoon. So no fishing, this what my dream meant.
Always bring a fly rod, part 1
Saturday, 31 October 2026
More often than not I bring a fly rod when I leave home. You never know if there will be a chance of fishing or some casting. I do this because it has happened once, twice or more that I have been some where without a rod and a good chance for fishing, or casting, and nothing better to do. And it is very few times that I have brought a rod and regretted the decision.
Boo
Sunday, 1 November 2026
I’m still jones-ing for my club sessions and when I spied a long-necked Salta Beer bottle at a gas station convenience store I jumped to buy it. It was a big one - at least the equivalent of a “forty” in the US. They wouldn’t sell it to me. The clerk spoke no English, she couldn’t understand my poor Spanish and I couldn't understand hers. It turned out that I couldn’t take the bottle out of the store. I’m still confused but it seems that there are a bunch of weird rules about buying a beer and taking it home. I think that they wanted me to drink it on the premises - So no clubs.
