We’re off on Air Canada to #Spatsizi finally, after 2.5 years of covid. No dramas at Sydney today if you’re 3 hours plus early. As the signs says, we can relax (touch wood)

During the long months of overlapping Covid lockdowns across all Australian states and the international lockdown to international travel, which is now stretching into years, one of the pleasures we freshwater fly fishermen living in the sub tropics miss the most is the opportunity to travel to some of the more beautiful places on the […]

Written by Taupo Fishery Focus by Editor, James Barnett for  Newsletter : Taupo Fishery Focus #8 By trout anglers for trout anglers Issue 8 – October 2019. October marks a transition in the New Zealand freshwater fishing calendar with numerous rivers and lakes opening across the country. This takes significant angling pressure off the Taupō spawning rivers, […]

Greetings from Brown Trout Heaven, New Zealand.      It’s September. The days are lengthening, the daffodils are blooming and the lambs are frolicking. Fortunately it was a mild winter in the northern South Island which passed quickly. Getting out there into the forests, mountains, and wilderness trout streams is high on our agenda and […]

I’m a long term visitor to the Taupo Rivers system and there’s no doubt in my mind it’s one of the best managed recreational fisheries in the world and, quite frankly, puts our Australian management of the once-magnificent Murray Darling system to shame. I get to Taupo whenever I can and would recommend it as […]