Flying Roofs & Fly Fishing!
The weather has been shithouse as they say over here for the passed while. Some serious gales (blowing the roof off our neighbours house, over ours and landing on another neighbours house!) and torrential rain blowing out all the rivers. Perfect blue sky days were regular enough but most rivers were too high and coloured to fish. I had some great fishing before the weather broke with Chris Dore (NZ’s #1 guide!!) and Fraser Hocks. We had many fish in the 2-4lb bracket on small nymphs not too far from Queenstown. It’s important not to give away exact locations. There’s plenty water for everyone so there’s no point putting undue pressure on the specific rivers. Explore. It’s more fun anyway!
I had some very enjoyable lake edge fishing near Glenorchy targeting cruising browns with woolly buggers in shallow water. Spot the fish, leave the fly lifeless on the bottom and strip it away when the fish is in attacking range. The result is a manic chase usually ending in a strike. Fun.
Tomorrow Mark Adamson and I are heading towards Te Anau where any amount of water awaits. The Redcliff also awaits… My joint number one bar in the world!
Happy Halloween!
Ronan..
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- Fraser Hock, Chris Dore and Myself..
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- My first cast of the day and the first ever cast with that rod!!
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- Nice place to be!
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- Not sure what damaged this fella but he was fighting fit and healing well!
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- Some colour in the water made spotting difficult..
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- Shallow water.. Good numbers of browns cruising the flats.
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- Fraser into a good fish!
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- I watched this fish for a while feeding away.. Casting was difficult and i spooked it!
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- Spectacular backdrop!
