Trout Fisher Magazine

Fly fishing photography is unique. Unlike any other sports-orientated photography it has its own special set of challenges, namely trying to keep your expensive investment dry in what is generally a wet, and high-risk environment! You never really kn

Settled weather always refines flyfishing tackle and tactics. Early December brought an extended series of calm mornings on the lake and with them, a typical switch to fickle feeding. Three blanks-with-missed-takes in a row finally made me do somethi

After fishing our big lake over summer from the bach, plans were made to visit one of the big fish lakes of the district next to us. One, once famous for the size and quality of its trout, had a diminished reputation these days, so in spite of many h

Dry spice and herb rubs are simple and versatile flavour enhancers that can be made well in advance and stored for later use on barbecued, baked, grilled or pan fried pin+boned salmon or trout fillets. Fresh breadcrumbs could also be added for a crus

By the time that I was 10 years old I’d probably caught about ten trout – consequently, I’d have learned a little bit about the challenges in bringing a fish to the net. I know this was so because I remember one day standing on a raised bank on the C

I have never been one for big books. At medical school we were told to buy big complex textbooks and I could never see the trunk for the leaves, to paraphrase the old saying. It was only when I started to buy little books such as ‘Clinical neuroanato

As the sun sets on another troubled year, my time by the lake as I slide into old age has become much more reflective, rather than productive! My body needs more time to recover now from the exercise I give it, during greatly reduced periods of activ

As much as I would love to be talking about the early run plus sized browns that have been swung up in the shade of the summer’s setting sun, simplicity is more my angle now and a fish far more average, just as special in other ways, but an average f

As I drove towards Fairlight a few raindrops smattered on the windscreen. It was only one o’clock, but it could have been any time of day under the low cloud ceiling, with threatening rainclouds piling up from the South. On the long straight road, un

It seems the main river in Marlborough - the Wairau - and its trout may have taken a hammering in a big flood in July. The river has continued to run high and mostly be unfishable since the new season opening on October 1 but when it has I've endeavo