tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:52:13 +0000Fishing news, fishing in New Zealand, fishing information, commentary, how-to, articles and stories on fishing, fly fishing, fishermen, fish and tackle, on rivers lakes and sea. 700+ fishing quotes and sayings.http://www.bishfish.co.nz/bishonfish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)Blogger410125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-9154624346149319701Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:39:00 +00002010-03-08T18:02:42.115+13:00This third and latest article in a series on fly-fishing  at night concentrates on fishing in rivers. While the rewards for fishing at night can be spectacular in terms of bigger fish, the potential dangers of fishing in rivers in the dark of night do require a good deal more preparation than is usual for daylight fishing. “…I guess summing up the difficulties; when night fishing you become http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/03/fly-fishing-at-night-part-3-in-rivers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-2900776697696374026Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:52:00 +00002010-03-03T08:52:20.885+13:00Once more we delve into the depths of fishing literature to hook out pearls of wisdom about fishing. Numbers 931 – 935 are waiting your perusal. And again I have two picks from today’s selection: first from the grand-dame of fly fishing, Joan Salvato Wulff in ‘Thoughts of a Fly Fisherman – Or Two’ “The woods and waters of the outdoors became my church, a place where I could examine my thoughtshttp://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/03/here-we-go-again-5-new-quotes-up-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-2925898824834904203Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:52:00 +00002010-03-02T17:52:26.139+13:00 The new issue maintains the excellent standard of this magazine. New Zealanders will love the great shots of fly-fishing in the rain – we get the occasional bouts of precipitation here, you may have noticed. But, rain is the price we pay for green scenery, and clear, clean water. You know how good this fly fishing on-line magazine is – just go and read it! http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/03/catch-magazine-march-issue-out-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-2211001263004265761Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:54:00 +00002010-02-21T16:54:22.525+13:00I have just up-loaded a new batch of fishy quotes and sayings for your undoubted pleasure and enlightenment – Numbers 926 – 930 (getting closer to the big 1000). My pick of the batch (num 928): “They argue about level lines and tapered, about heavy tackle or light, about whether you ought to fish upstream or down, about a single built rod or a double built. They get nasty the minute anybody http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/02/new-batch-of-5-fishing-quotes-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-6829729769393520789Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:17:00 +00002010-02-12T13:21:15.441+13:00“Lets be honest, here. Very few patterns are truly new, by which I mean they are not modifications or versions of a previous pattern” Midcurrent has a short article on the decision making process that goes into deciding whether a “new” fly is really new enough to be included into the Orvis range of flies. http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/02/what-makes-fly-pattern-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-8735089943088232035Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:00 +00002010-02-03T09:22:02.248+13:00Five new fishing quotes and sayings are up now – numbers 921 – 925. My pick of this group, number 922… “During the past two decades we have seen an explosion in the popularity of fly fishing. Thousands of new fly fishermen, and women, have embraced the sport and taken up fly tying as a part of it. During this same period we have had a proliferation in new tying materials; and new magazines http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/02/new-fishing-quotes-and-sayings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-4748372694881901373Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:10:00 +00002010-02-01T18:10:14.558+13:00To a South Island of New Zealand trained brown-trout fisherman, the answer to the question, what fly should I use to tempt the fish, was easy – a small brown nymph. If that did not work, toss out a smaller, browner nymph. Use a big bright glistening fly? No never – scare the fish off would have been the answer, and to many it still is the answer. But for me that answer took a tumble on a http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/02/big-bright-flashy-flies-for-brown-trout.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-72695106754100338Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:29:00 +00002010-01-31T16:29:48.204+13:00The always excellent Midcurrent fly-fishing site led me to a good article on fishing one of the best brown trout rivers in the world, in the New York Times. Just one niggle, one little sentence in the article that makes a big mistake. It adds the instruction that when crossing farmland, “… do not fail to close a gate, lest livestock get out.” Wrong! Farmers are the same world-over, and the http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/01/nice-article-on-fishing-matuara-river.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-1598431583127270983Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:25:00 +00002010-01-28T08:28:03.785+13:00When wrote my post yesterday about my new hip pack which has replaced my fly-fishing vest to help keep back pain under control, I forgot to mention something else my bad back Doctor, (the back is bad, definitely not the Doctor), advised. He recommends, and remember he is a nutter fisherman like us, that when you are walking to and from the river or or stream, or from pool to pool, or wading in http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/01/oh-my-aching-back-no-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-6339566749572331043Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:48:00 +00002010-01-31T16:35:56.908+13:00I would have no real idea how many vests I have owned, but given they only last a year or two the flogging I give them, in 50  and more years of fishing I have gone through more than a few. I have had a problem with vests since way back when I played as a front-row forward in a Rugby team. First I stuffed the vest with way too much gear, then slung this heavy load onto my shoulders. By the end http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/01/goodbye-fly-fishing-vest-hello-hip-pack.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-6536220702558013029Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:26:00 +00002010-01-25T17:26:37.603+13:00Numbers 916 –920 are ready for your perusal as usual. My pick, and a bit controversial, certainly my comments about it may be… “The reason that all other kinds of fishermen look up to the dry-fly purist is not that he catches more fish than they; on the contrary, it is because he catches fewer. His is the sport in its purist, most impractical, least material form.” - William Humphrey My http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/01/5-more-fishing-quotes-and-sayings-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-887367411999013513Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:19:00 +00002010-01-08T19:19:47.500+13:00Five new fishing quotations and saying are up now. Numbers 911 – 915. Enjoy. My pick of the litter: “Of course fly-fishing is not proof against craziness. In fact, spending what can easily become serious money and endless time to catch fish you mostly release would by most measures prove craziness.” - James R Babb - River Music Comment You just have to believe that moving around for http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/01/five-new-fishing-quotes-and-sayings-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-4332018366316755243Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:55:00 +00002010-01-04T22:55:34.319+13:00As an ex-tackle-store owner I guess I got to handle and trial way more fly-fishing rods than most. That included all that was touted to be the latest and greatest. Fact was that handling so many rods lead to the perhaps jaded view that all new rods were merely slight advances on a rod building theme, and big advances in the persuasive power of the rod-makers advertising and marketing people. http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/01/do-10-foot-light-line-weight-fly-rods.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-3972795864892269872Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:22:00 +00002010-01-02T08:22:26.102+13:00 These guys just keep on getting better – pure fly fishing bliss. Highlights this issue must be the two videos on fly fishing for mean gleaming golden Dorado in the jungles of South America – guaranteed to stir the blood. As usual the photography is simply stunning – enough talk – just go get it! http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2010/01/catch-magazine-9-is-out-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-7426966570870641212Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:13:00 +00002009-12-19T18:13:11.320+13:00Proudly presented for your personal perusal, a profoundly perceptive parade of pithy pointers to the perplexity  of piscine pottering. Which  means 5 more fishing quotes are up now – numbers 906 – 910 My pick: “My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/12/5-more-fishing-quotes-and-sayings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-1094402529454276771Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:52:00 +00002009-12-03T10:52:34.912+13:00There are in this fishing world of ours thousands of hints, tricks, and tips to make things easier or more effective. Most of us I guess read them, say to ourselves, 'now that is a good idea, I must use that' - and promptly forget around 99% of them! Well a couple of months ago I read a tip in a UK fly-fishing magazine that was simplicity in itself, designed to solve a problem that affects us http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/12/magnetic-little-tip-for-finding-fumbled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-6042459284858975801Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:06:00 +00002009-12-01T15:06:27.269+13:00More fishy sagacity, encapsulated in pithy, pointed penmanship, plucked from piscine publications for your perusal. Numbers 901 - 905 My pick of the bunch – this pearl: “There don't have to be a thousand fish in the river. Let me locate a single good one and I'll get a thousand dreams out of him before I catch him. And if I catch him, I'll let him go.” Jim Deren http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/12/five-new-fishing-quotes-and-sayings-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-7741812687235332268Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:40:00 +00002009-11-23T09:42:11.086+13:00Have just up-loaded 5 more quotes and sayings , numbers 896 – 990. Three of them, on the subject of ‘catch and release’ may stir up some flak from some quarters. My pick: “Catch and release is not merely an art of fly-fishing, not necessarily learned or suitable for some fishermen, but it is one that should be used only on waters where it makes real sense and not simply imagined sense. Where http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/11/5-more-fishing-quotes-and-sayings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-1568057289283719327Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:55:00 +00002009-11-13T08:55:21.159+13:00Five more quotes and sayings, and for a change, a poem,  about matters piscatorial and fluvial, ready to swim through the streams of bits and bytes are up now – numbers 891 – 895. My pick of the catch: “(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is, I tell myself, someone in the city nearby http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/11/new-fishing-quotes-and-sayings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-7037603588818285860Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:41:00 +00002009-11-11T14:41:46.211+13:00Eric King-Turner emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 102, saying he loved the country and especially loved the fishing. And even at 102 he went fishing. A couple of weeks before he died he purchased a new seasons licence, but he never got to use it, the weather kept him from the water. There is an old Babylonian proverb: “the Gods have decreed that the days spent fishing are added to the http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/11/104-year-old-fly-fisherman-dies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-7209183160332382075Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:31:00 +00002009-11-11T14:31:22.672+13:00Here is an excellent article on the state of play of the Didymo problem in the South Island of New Zealand. The sad part is that the situation in New Zealand is a graphic illustration of the ‘portability’ of all sorts of pests because of the comparative ease of travel. It is believed the introduction of Didymo in New Zealand was by way of an American angler, or returning Kiwi angler – the Didymohttp://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/11/brown-plague-didymo-or-rock-snot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-1745820337309705417Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:43:00 +00002009-11-03T12:43:50.107+13:00The new edition of Catch Magazine is out now and the best keeps getting better. Make sure you watch the Spey casting video, beautiful! http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/11/catch-magazine-out-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-7059563167368665241Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:24:00 +00002009-11-01T22:24:58.718+13:00Five more fishing quotes are up now, numbers 886 – 890. This one is my pick: “Have you ever noticed that trout seem to take better as our fly gets more ragged? Think I'll start tying ragged flies. Hell, on second thought, I don't even have to think about it, because my flies come out of the vise that way.” - Jimmy D Moore This quote is very pertinent to me. Have a look at this article and http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/11/5-more-fishing-quotes-and-sayings-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-3346842148137876811Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:03:00 +00002009-10-24T17:03:09.290+13:00 Marlene from One Cast Fly Fishing Adventures also sent me the photo above of a very sick trout showing all the signs of being really badly handled before release. The skin ahead of the tail has been ‘burnt’ by being picked up with dry hands or gloves, and being held too tightly for too long. This type of handling removes protective slime, damages the skin and opens the way for infection and http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/10/bad-handling-when-releasing-can-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11140265.post-3649661677106088989Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:47:00 +00002009-10-24T16:49:55.289+13:00Marlene and Craig Skeet from One Cast Fly Fishing Adventures, who were guiding a Japanese client who filmed the action, have added a bit more to the story: “Mitsuo goes through a lot of shaking and screaming before capturing the big eel attacking his trout. (The song Japanesey replaces his hysteria voice) The camera was put down after the 2 minute drama and the trout was saved and http://www.bishfish.co.nz/2009/10/more-on-eel-versus-trout-video.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bishfish)0