Welcome to The Weekly Five Episode 26. The drought has broken in New Zealand’s South Island. Heavy rain is freshening up rivers as the trout start to aggregate at river mouths, but it’s not so good for the bumper grape harvest that’s underway across the country.
As the sea-run brown trout season winds down in Patagonia, we’re super-excited about the huge estancia bordering the Rio Grande in Chile opening its gates to international anglers next year. Look out for an announcement soon!
The Troutnut website of ecologist Jason Neuswanger needs to be celebrated. Jason’s 22+ years of endeavour applying aquatic entomology knowledge to fly fishing provides us with a tremendous streamside field guide and is particularly useful to North American anglers.
Way down in sleepy Athol, New Zealand, the legendary Stu’s Superior Flies marks the end of a glorious era and is now up for sale.
Almost a year since we reported on troubles in French-controlled New Caledonia, the unrest continues, deterring anglers’ access to a spectacular tropical fishery. With 10% of global nickel deposits still remaining on its main island, it’s hard to see France giving up dependency any time soon.
If you’re in the US and stocking up on leaders and tippet ahead of the new season (or need saltwater nylon/fluoro), don’t go past Reds. They’re offering 50% off, via a ‘Buy One Get One Free’ promotion on Scientific Anglers by using the code: SABOGO at checkout. That’s hard to beat!
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I met a great guy at a local hunting lodge last Friday. He’s wrapping up a summer working in New Zealand before heading back to Canada. We got talking about hunting and fishing, as you do.
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Welcome to The Weekly Five Episode 25, where we briskly scan the topics of political interference in Alaska, prized Ukraine titanium, Heli-fishing in New Zealand, Aussie Nipple Dusters, and a Fiordland flash flood. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
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