{"id":17762,"date":"2026-06-07T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/?p=17762"},"modified":"2026-06-07T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:20:59","slug":"late-season-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/07\/late-season-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Season Wrap Up.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s June now but it’s mild and lovely. I’m in the workshop most days building a fly tying desk for myself. I’ll write a blog about the whole build. I’m over three quarters way through and enjoying the whole process. This is a time of year I really love. Little to no guiding, I step back from work. I look after the kids, the house, the garden, make stuff in the workshop, travel and fish. I sort of retire for 4 months. The seasonal nature of the job means I have no choice. I think it’s the best thing about being a guide down here near the bottom of the South Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I said goodby to my great old friend Bob Toffler. Those of you who’ve been on here over the years will have been familiar with him. Many of my friends knew him and had great time for him too. I met him over 25 years ago in the US and we were great friends from the start. I’ll compile some photos and write a piece about him in the near future. I’lll miss him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Singaporean gang have recruited a new member to the party. Tuck. We had a good trip around Southland and a bit locally. Nice thing about having Tuck around was his “friends” took the piss out of him more than me. Quite a relief.. Great craic with Singapores finest as always..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big fish theme continued through March and April with quite a few fish between 8 and 8.5. It’s so good to see these tanks sliding into the net. Myself and Robbie saw a few on a couple of still-waters, sighted and blind taken on dries, nymphs and buggers depending on conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope to get out soon with Jeff and Robbie, probably not at the same time but who knows, for a bit of winter fishing. It’s been good so far. Check out my flies over on Fulling Mill<\/a>. If you’d like book a trip you can get in touch on ronan@sexyloops.com<\/strong><\/em> or visit my website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My thoughts as always are with the people of Gaza and now Lebanon. One genocide isn’t enough for you know who..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tight lines… Ronan..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lovely 8lber for Chuan.. A tough day
besides but there were a few more chances.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The rod holding system is good. Just needs one small improvement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bright green grasshopper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chuan and his trout ran this gauntlet! We got him..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Always a good day out with these two…
although I’d never tell them that!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Highcountry for rainbows today..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Good sport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great cast from Kim with the kiwi dun 14..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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..and a solid seatrout reward.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lovely..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A healthy trout..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another day..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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..another trout. A good one!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And one for Kim..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A good day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dr Tuck joined the party!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just under 6lbs. Hard to do better than this on the Mataura.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Superb..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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School mates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One each today.. All goodies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lunch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A 7lber for Kim on my tussock cicada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great fish. March. The window where fish became active was short but good!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And then Dr Tuck got one just as good, Tussock cicada again…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I think he’s thanking his god.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Out of the gorge..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another day – unusually tough for one of my favourite sections of river.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dr Tuck saved the day with this little beauty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Time to call it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You can’t take him anywhere..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stolen apples taste better!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Out with Robbie for a few days on stillwaters..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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8.5lbs and my pb from my boat I think.. On my brown bugger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robbie with a well marked beauty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This fish was about 8lbs and my most beautiful of the season..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just magnificent..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Such colour!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robbie also with some crackers..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heading home..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great little hut..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A brilliant fish on my highcountry green cicada in April!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just after releasing the fish I noticed this grasshopper floating just where I hooked him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Amazing trout..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Access here has been pretty much cut off but I got
a green light to revisit my old stomping ground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beautiful..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Table rock I used to call it..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There were a few fish around and I landed a couple.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice to be back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A day out with the lads.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lochlan launches a lure..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No fish but who cares.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Love this pic from a gloomy, late season day..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Good day with Adam..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Good sport all day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blind fished from a deep riffle on my hotspot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A reliable pool..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great spot for a rising trout.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lochlan with the air rifle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s June now but it’s mild and lovely. I’m in the workshop most days building a fly tying desk for myself. I’ll write a blog about the whole build. I’m over three quarters way through and enjoying the whole process. This is a time of year I really love. Little to no guiding, I step […]<\/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":[412,589,1432,376,1256,1162,1433,481],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17762"}],"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=17762"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17834,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17762\/revisions\/17834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}