Pretty spontaneous little trip. After exchanging a few emails and messages with Desolve team and my friends from South Island New Zealand, we managed to come up with a rough itinerary. I stocked up my fly boxes, packed my bags and I was on the way to the airport, to board a plane, taking me to Queenstown.
Last stop in Japan – a beautiful city of Sapporo with its breweries and then an arranged visit to meet a legendary rod builder Yasuyuki of Kabuto Rods. I’ve been following an amazing craftsmanship of Kabuto rods for as long as I can remember myself and able to go and meet Yasuyuki
Couldn’t have asked for a better place to stay than Streamcollect fishing lodge. Sato, being a chef himself, certainly knows how to cook up a feast. Some nights we would pop in to a local grocery store and get some local meats and cook izakaya
For the second part of the trip I took a flight from Tokyo to Sapporo and after a 6 hour drive all the way up to the northern Hokkaido I met up with Sato from Streamcollect. After having some local soba noodles for lunch, we then decided to check out a few rivers in the area and see if
Back in November I did a thing and scooted over to Japan for a sightseeing and exploration type of holiday but also managed to fit a few days of fishing as well. First stop was Tokyo where the plan was to explore some cool cafes, restaurants and of course an incredible outdoor shops filled with Japanese
Not much to report on the recent trips to my local rivers. It got hot pretty quick this year, and those couple of trips I had into the mountains I didn’t have much success. Still nice to be out and about, stroll along the running river and have a sandwich while watching platypus play in the pool.
Last winter season trip to the South Coast is done and dusted. This time salmon were on the smaller size compared to previous trips, but pretty good fun on an 8wt nevertheless. A few creatures have been keeping the company on the beach and enjoying the sun and warming weather, as it can be seen in
Just realised I haven’t posted this video of the brown trout fishing in the small creeks of the Blue Mountains, which I made a while ago. So here it is. Hopefully the quality of fishing is gonna be as good the next coming season. Fingers crossed.
That’s that time of the year again. Winter. When Australian Salmon schools up and congregate closer to shore or in the estuaries in big numbers. Some places they are a bit harder to get on the fly, other places they’re quite easy. This was one of those days where we’re hooking into
Normally a little bit of rain is supposed to be good for the trout, especially now coming into the Autumn and pre-spawn season. But last couple of weeks brought more rain than anticipated, so all major trout rivers in the Blue Mountains got flooded pretty badly. After waiting a few days for the water
