Tarpon Fly Fishing Tips Part 2: How to Cast, Present, Hook, and Fight Tarpon
In Part 1, I covered the preparation side of tarpon fishing - fly selection, hooks, drag settings and getting yourself organized on the bow before the fish show up.
Don’t Forget About The Toothy Critters
With plenty of our guests heading to The Bahamas, Belize and Mexico over the next few months, it’s worth shining a light on a flats species that doesn’t get nearly the respect it deserves: the barracuda.
Heli Fishing Reefton Delivers Big Browns Once Again
I live to sight fish to big Brown Trout with dry flies and I know of no more productive a location for doing this than the left had side of the Lewis Pass, from the mountains, over to the west coast. The dense Beech Tree forests are prime breeding grounds for cicada’s, which hatch every January. What this means for fly anglers is that the big Browns are programmed to be looking up for their food and are so eager and willing to eat dry flies between January and March.
Heli Fishing the Fiords of Southern New Zealand
The visuals of a fishing trip to New Zealand's Fiordland, found in the southwest corner of the South Island, are almost hard to believe. In all my travels around the world to fish, I don't think I've ever seen anything that, day after day, delivers on the most incredible fishing scenery I have ever seen. Every day it's a new and likley more beautiful location than the day before. And then there's the trout.
Fly fishing Spain in the Late Fall is One of Life’s Great Rewards
Spain’s Pyrenees Mountains in late October are in full bloom, with a veritable kaleidoscope of bright yellows and reds that seemingly leap right off the forest and surrounding mountains. The days are getting shorter, the mornings are crisp and cool and any establishment that has a working fireplace has seen an uptick in people coming in the last few weeks.