I discovered Creel Lodge about 20 years ago and I keep coming back. It’s called a lodge and although it doesn’t have the traditional lodge styled dining and lounge areas, I love it. It’s right on the mighty Tongariro, the best fly fishing river in the world for libidinous steelhead on their winter spawning run […]
Places to go, Rivers to Fish
College’s Crossing 2005
Fishing College’s Crossing 2005 Half an hour from Brisbane’s CBD, Mount Crosby Road crosses the Brisbane River. It’s a little bridge just north of Ipswich, called College’s Crossing. There’s a picnic and recreation ground, plenty of clean water for kids to splash in … and there’s fish. My intrepid fishing mate and I headed out […]
Bundara River Summer 2005
Hopper Magic on the Bundara It was late afternoon and we were only an hour from the Bundara River when the wind blew up and the high country hoppers began pelting our car windscreen. The fate of the hapless hoppers notwithstanding, it was a welcome sight for a couple of dedicated fly fishermen. Like the […]
The Mighty Sturgeon – Canada 2000
The end of the heavy game rod dips slowly, as 30 metres below in the chilly Fraser River near Vancouver, a prehistoric monster of the deep delicately extends its hideous mouth over a dainty package of salmon eggs. I grab the rod, point down close to the water and wait. The next hit is slow […]
Down and Dirty on the Delegate River 2005
If fire fighters were gun fighters Delegate River would be Australia’s OK Corral. Delegate River Tavern was the rallying point in early 2003, when fire fighters from around the world converged to contain the deadly firestorm which swept from north east Victoria into the Alpine Parks and border country of NSW, and then flared up […]
Tongariro Late Summer 2005
Wherever you live in the world, there are only three things you need to catch a six-pound trout: a passport, a Taupo district fishing license, and some cash to get there. The action varies a little, but the big fish are there all year around. Most overseas anglers – from Australia, the USA or the […]