{"id":17476,"date":"2025-12-19T13:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/?p=17476"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:33:15","slug":"not-much-to-say-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/19\/not-much-to-say-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Not much to say right now…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The photos below take me up to about mid November. A good mix of fishing with a few absolute brutes in the mix. Some great fish around this season. No doubles and nothing mousy (yet) but healthy numbers of really good quality trout up to 8lbs. Some seasons we don’t see many of those. Prospects are good for more and hopefully bigger – especially if this mouse plague comes to fruition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This season is mostly full now but I have space in April. Next season is filling up too so if you’re thinking about a trip feel free to get in touch for a chat or to book. ronan@sexyloops.com or visit my website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My range of flies with Fulling Mill can be seen here<\/a>. Still time to stock up on willow grubs and cicadas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state of the world is weighing on me a little right now. I don’t feel like writing but I want to share these pics before the backlog gets too much! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good luck to the hunger strikers and free Palestine. Ronan..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fly only – defo!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not much happening but lovely..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A beauty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flies.. most available from Fulling mill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One on the Green Machine – Fulling Mill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A few buggers fresh off the vice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rolling hills with evening light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lake Onslow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A beautiful old battler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the most beautiful fish I’ve seen in recent years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marcus unhooks a super fish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Geoff in again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claret nymph was all they wanted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lovely place to be.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Geoff giving him stick – for a beginner with an
injured casting arm he did amazingly well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some stunning fish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claret again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steak, spuds, beans, wine and craic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marcus having good action on the other side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Farmhouse luxury. You know you’re on the South Island
when a speights box is used to patch a window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Geoff strikes again with this brute.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Geoff again with another tank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tough conditions in the wind and rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of my streamer boxes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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October snow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The secret dam..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fish were very slow to move..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As the day warmed up so did the action. Dads buzzers were great.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back he goes..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plenty quality trout.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lovely Central Otago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My boat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Couple of tanks..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Superb condition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Out on my own. 8lbs from a small stream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I hooked it, they did the rest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Happy kids.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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a brilliant few days with Matt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Magnificently conditioned fish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This cute little fella came to say hello.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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He followed us for quite a while.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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over 7lbs on my Kiwi Dun 14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Very satisfying capture this one. We almost missed it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beautiful weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beautiful river..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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..and fish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another big brown for Matt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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lovely..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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John O Malleys friend Roman was over. We had a good day out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Happy angler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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healthy trout.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice view on the way home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Occasionally I take one. This is one trout prepared 3 ways. Crumbed
and fried, crudo and cold smoked. A family favourite dinner!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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3 generations of beginners!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We managed a fish each day including this 7lb tank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The best strike indicator setup from Barry Dombro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The photos below take me up to about mid November. A good mix of fishing with a few absolute brutes in the mix. Some great fish around this season. No doubles and nothing mousy (yet) but healthy numbers of really good quality trout up to 8lbs. Some seasons we don’t see many of those. Prospects […]<\/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":[412,1424,1423,1199,1234,1379],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476"}],"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=17476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17542,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions\/17542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}