{"id":13255,"date":"2020-04-06T02:23:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T00:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/?p=13255"},"modified":"2020-04-06T02:43:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T00:43:57","slug":"fishing-with-grunde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/06\/fishing-with-grunde\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing with Grunde!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I love it when I get a booking through Sexyloops. There’s a certain familiarity and understanding right from the start which relieves any pressure. I can simply plan the best trip I can. I basically just plan to do what I’d like to do which is not always the case. Dealing with Grunde was easy because we are like minded – like most Sexyloopers. He was happy to have me fish too so this was a trip I was really looking forward to. I had a rough plan in my head for the 4 days which included hiking into the backcountry but on the first day the weather turned for the worse. Extremely worse! A weather system which was destined to wreak havoc on the South Island landed on day 1. I know many guides cancelled bookings because of it. I’m lucky because I love the lakes which means I never have to cancel due to weather – I haven’t yet anyway. Apart from on the morning of day 1 there wasn’t a river to fish anywhere for the 4 days. We took on a very varied list of still waters from tiny to huge through almost every type of weather. We successfully blind fished with dries and nymphs on day 1, we also had a few shots to rising trout. Day 2 was all blind fishing with small streamers. We sight fished everything on day 3. Some magic fishing. Nine trout from 4 to 6.5lbs, mostly on dries. Day 4 sort of beat us. We got a few trout but the wind got really crazy. Every time I’d change location to avoid the wind it would change direction to ruin the new location! You’ll have days like that. All up it was a great 4 days of fly fishing – not for everyone I’m sure but we loved it! Looking forward to next time, Grunde! Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feel free to get in touch with any enquiries for next season. Don’t worry about a deposit under the current circumstances – just let me know the dates you’d like. Hopefully the travel ban will be lifted by next season. Contact me ronan@sexyloops.com<\/em><\/strong> or visit my website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good luck! Ronan..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 1. We fished the river in the morning til this happened..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And it got much much bigger! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plan B was some some small still waters.. Casting dries around the edges was very good!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another for me. Brilliantly coloured this time. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They’re all so different.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After a few missed opportunities this one to the net and Grund was off the mark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back he goes.. 4 for the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 2. With all rivers flooded it had to be another still water. This time to the high country.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We needed serious rain gear! I had 2 Simms jackets and this emergency poncho. The poncho was great!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The rain pissed down all day. This was the system that wreaked havoc all over the lower South Island. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We had really good fishing with small streamers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stunning fish are the norrm on these high country lakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rain, mist and wind.. Cold too..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But good fishing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grunde in again..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Super fish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One more beautiful trout before heading home. Super day with 6 to the net to 5.5lbs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 3. With rivers in flood this was a busy lake! 7 anglers on it. We got there early and staked our claim on a great 150m shore. A perfect blue sky day was very welcome after 2 of the wettest days I’ve guided.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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9 for the morning mostly on dries.. including this double hook-up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A very memorable moment.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nice markings.. Plenty more opportunities in the afternoon but no more landed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 4. Still on the lakes. We managed 3 or 4 but the wind got insane!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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yep, insane!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some Fulling Mill flies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sensibly packaged. Good flies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some of my own flies. My go to dry. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This with a yellow body was great for cicadas this year. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lake edge cruiser fly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My #16 nymph with a 2mm bead. This fly has accounted for 5 double figure trout from one river!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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#12, 3mm bead. For depth or coloured water. The butt is backing line, possum body.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love it when I get a booking through Sexyloops. There’s a certain familiarity and understanding right from the start which relieves any pressure. I can simply plan the best trip I can. I basically just plan to do what I’d like to do which is not always the case. Dealing with Grunde was easy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1174,1172,1001,778,1175,145,796,298],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13255"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13262,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions\/13262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}