{"id":16290,"date":"2024-01-31T02:07:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/?p=16290"},"modified":"2024-01-31T03:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T01:02:24","slug":"getting-jumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/31\/getting-jumped\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Jumped!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December and into January… <\/strong>December is a great month to fish. Trout start looking up and responding well to terrestrials. Everyone seems to love dry fly action! There were some nice mayfly hatches too. Usually short and fickle but we made the best of it when it happened. As January arrived many of my local fisheries got too warm for good (or ethical) fishing. With this I venture away to find cooler water. I like to mix it up anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day I went to a high country river in the hope of some cicada action. We got to the river at 9am and got the piece of water I hoped for. At 11am, perched high on a rock I could see a vehicle (large black ute) pull up 1 kilometre above us. They could see us I’m sure and I’m pretty sure they saw my vehicle earlier too. It’s totally unethical to do this. It takes quite a brass neck to arrive there so late and then just cut someone off. They were just too far up for me to go marching up there for an argument so we pulled out and went downstream only to get jumped again by another clown fishing downstream from an upstream access point. A really infuriating day. We should all treat other anglers as we’d like to be treated. To cut someone off so blatantly is basically stealing someones experience. I’m pretty sure I know who was in the black ute and they should know better. Sadly, I heard that they make a habit of this. Against the odds we managed a couple of good trout! One on my cicada and the other on my unweighted nymph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All my flies are working well on their relative days. They’re available from Fulling Mill<\/a> or in-store at Patagonia<\/a> Queenstown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about January in my next blog! Its been a challenging but great month. A few days off now before KC and Mark arrive.. I’m looking forward to seeing these 2 again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tight lines.. Ronan..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Glenorchy – Tough fishing but beautiful..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Michael. Good conditions in the morning and we maximised on it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Super fish..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not long til the rod was bent again,
This time blind fishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fat and lovely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A quick grip and grin!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Otago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Always worth checking out a backwater..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Out for a day with Bryan in the boat. Perfect start!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One for me on the shore. One each for the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bryan finds a fish..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In to one..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Magnificent big brown..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One for me with 2 eel bites on him..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’ve seen this battle-axe before..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A couple of big reds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Windy as feck. Note the willow branches flying around!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A good start for me..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then Bryan not long later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lovely condition..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of my happy places.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My 16 claret. A really deadly fly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One on my sights..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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.. got him! Different colouration
to hide on the dark rocks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not bad..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Expertly handled from tight water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Solid!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kiwi dun #14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great fish for Shawn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shawn and Chris..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with a brilliant fish after
some bad luck during the day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They don’t come much nicer than this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rocks and wind.. a great combo up here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not sure what this fella was eating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One on the deadly Bruiser in the wind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And another.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eric and Jeff with their new friend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All his friends ran away but this
stayed for a bit of attention.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back to the important stuff..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grubbing bows are tougher than browns?!?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just Jeff today and he did well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Good action..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My cicada doing very well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Testing the knots!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Good fun..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Usually these are white.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 3..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After some hard luck on day 1, this was an important fish for Eric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the bag! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A goody for Jeff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And another. 3 each for the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chuan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The first fish of the trip and its a goody!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then a grubbing rainbow from a riffle. No other
fly would do! This is available at Fulling Mill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another day! Into a very solid seatrout.
Sadly he got away.. A bar of fresh silver.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great action all day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Prime condition. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chuan down a hole.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Last cast with a little leggy, black terrestrial.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December and into January… December is a great month to fish. Trout start looking up and responding well to terrestrials. Everyone seems to love dry fly action! There were some nice mayfly hatches too. Usually short and fickle but we made the best of it when it happened. As January arrived many of my local […]<\/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":[1188,753,1019,1199,1371,1373,1224,1162,1372,168,1122],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290"}],"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=16290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16357,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290\/revisions\/16357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}