{"id":18009,"date":"2026-09-01T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/?p=18009"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:27:51","slug":"the-days-are-getting-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/01\/the-days-are-getting-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Days are Getting Longer!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The trees are about to explode into life right now. Some flowers are already blooming in the garden. In the next few days there’ll be a lot more. It’s an exciting time of year watching the cycle rotate again, I’m imagining the trout in the rivers are piling on condition already. In a month it will be all go again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was busy at home all winter with various jobs to improve our house. There was still time for some fishing though. Some days were good but the lakes seemed slow to fire up this year. Usually by August it’s very good locally but this year was a little quiet – at least was for me. September should be great on the lakes though – it always is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plenty time to stock up on flies for the coming season. You can check out my patterns over at Fulling Mill<\/a>. Claret nymphs and hotspot nymphs are hard to beat for early season rivers. No harm to have a few streamers too for the high water days and a few 14 kiwi duns for the October hatches. I’m excited to have 4 great new patterns available in January. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next season is pretty much full til April – which is a good time to fish here. Feel free to get in touch! ronan@sexyloops.com or visit my website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peace. Ronan..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good couple of sessions with Shelen on the Clutha..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A few fish about.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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High water filling the braids.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A cold, wet day with Graeme..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fishing was pretty good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A nice brown for me from a likely seem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plenty fish in the net but the highlight
of the day was a flask of hot tea!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mackenzie Country with Graeme.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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fishing was hard but we don’t need
many in the net for a great day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A day maker!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great place to be…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A couple of books on the dorm table
at Buscot station. A great place to stay!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Into on straight away on day 2 on a gloomy day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A very good brown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back he goes..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Icy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Graeme covering water with long casts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beauty in the cold.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Working a likely point..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Into a solid rainbow..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Last cast!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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4 days on Dunstan with Kevin over a month..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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..this was the only day I took photos!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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1 for Kevin, 0 for me..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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..very proud of himself!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dunstan has been slow to fire up this winter but on the 4th day we landed 7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A recent day on Lake W\u0101naka. It was way too high..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nowhere to leave down my stuff to put my jacket on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I rescued these little fellas from the lake.
Still rising, the were trapped on a one foot square
island. I put them in my hat and waded 500m to bring them to safety.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The trees are about to explode into life right now. Some flowers are already blooming in the garden. In the next few days there’ll be a lot more. It’s an exciting time of year watching the cycle rotate again, I’m imagining the trout in the rivers are piling on condition already. In a month it […]<\/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":[735,617,1443,199,454,739,1222,1442,1422],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009"}],"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=18009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18042,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions\/18042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}