Sport - Fishing

Soft-bait basics includes: Placing soft-baits on lead-head hooks, Placing soft-baits on worm-hooks, Lead-head rig, Worm-hook rig, Drop-shot rig, Weighted kingish rig, Hapuku rig, How to tie: A Bimini Twist, How to tie: A Yucatan knot, How to tie: A Back-to-back Uni knot, How to tie: A Palomar knot, How to tie: A Lefty's Loop knot.

Provides fishing tips and lists target species and jigging spots.

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This book calls on the expertise of three of the best flytyers in the world - Ngongotaha's Hugh McDowell, Turangi's Peter Church and Murchison's Peter Carty. This intrepid trio have combined regularly to produce a regular Master of Flytying column in the Fish and Game New Zealand magazine. They present the background, materials and tying instructions for 23 different patterns, all of which are proven troutcatchers in New Zealand and around the globe.

A celebration of flyfishing in New Zealand. Zane Mirfin - fishing guide, author and award-winning photographer has captured the esence of what makes flyfishing in New Zealand unique and special. Over 100 remarkable images reveal the frama, splendour, and excitement that is flyfishing in New Zealand.

Written and illustrated for fishermen, no Latin names or scientific terms. It is clearly illustrated with tips on identification, habitat, fishing technique and bait used with a brief comment on the food quality. Water proof, and tear proof. A handy pocket size booklet.

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With disarming honesty and freshness, Derek Grzelewski has written a highly readable account of his year dedicated to fly-fishing in New Zealand, relating the highs and lows, and the intricacies and finesse, of pursuing trout in the wild places and pristine waters he loves so much. The thrill of close encounters with this elusive quarry is mirrored by the pleasure he takes in the companionship of his dogs, his friends and the many others he happens across in, often secret, fly-fishing locations around the country. Each month, illus... read more

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In Pursuit of Trout includes chaptersd about casting, nymphing, downstreaming, dry fly fishing, rivermouth fishing, stalking stillwaters, boat fishing, and even looks at the social behaviour of trout, as well as the facts and myths surrounding catch and release.

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148 pages Fishing to sighted trout is one of the most heart stopping, exciting and downright thrilling way to fish for them. Even when everything is perfect; the cast; the fly; the presentation - there is no way anyone say with certainty that the trout will accept the offering or ignore it. This book sets out to clarify somes of the mysteries of trout fishing. Not with any certainity but based on the experience of the authors both of whom are experienced fisherman. Graeme Marshall is a popular fishing guide (he took the plunge ... read more

Reprint Nov 2001 From the same authors of Stalking Trout this book gives a detailed examination of the steps between finding a fish and landing it. It examines every stage from leader to cast to strike to playing fish that has its part to play to finally landing the fish.

Flyfishing for trout in New Zealand. Articles from 30 well-regarded New Zealand flyfishing personalities about their favourite fly patterns, together with tying instructions, colour photographs and illustrated with colour and black & white sketches. First published May 2007.

What kind of dory have you caught? At what depth and where on the continental shelf are trevally most likely to be caught? What other fish are these most likely to be confused with? This book is the result of research and observation of fishes most commonly caught (and sometimes confused) by commercial and recreational fishers. Jorge Hirt-Chabbert provides a user-friendly guide that makes the process of identifying your catch simple. Visual clues are the paramount guide to naming your fish, with technical information about the spe... read more

Limited edition. This book is the third in the Parsons' 'Homage' series, which gathers the author's writings on the special fishing places he has known for up to 40 years. This one, the Waipunga, in the hills between Taupo and Napier, gave the author the fishing he loved best - sometimes in the shallow, upland valley above the Waipunga Falls, and sometimes in the deeper-cut valley below, with its rapid, rocky and boulder-strewn course. Challenges a-plenty test the angler, expecially the fighting spirit of the trout. As usual, frien... read more

Bob South is an award winning sports writer and author of three previous books. Reflections on the Water and Fish 'n' Chaps, were published by the Halcyon Press. Editor of the award winning outdoor magazine Fish and Game he is one of New Zealand's most respected outdoor writers. This book had it's start at the end of a days fishing on "the long road back" to the car. It a book about the things anglers and especially fly fishermen talk about after a days fishing. The big fish that got away, mates they have fished with. The truth dre... read more

"My fly box soon contained many famous patterns, but when opening it down by the river, I often couldn't remember which fly was which, let alone which fly to use." Laurence Christie didn't become a trout angler in his formative years, and as the quote above indicates, was soon struggling with the complexities of the sport. Using skills developed in the Research and Development departments of industry, he began applying the same techniques to reasearching fly fishing. From the early notes and practical experience, he has produ... read more

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From battling monsters from the deep, to the magic and mystery of fly fishing, larger-than-life fish stories that are all true. Lifelong fisherman Paul Knight knows the thrill of the chase, the one-on-one battle of endurance between man and beast that is sport fishing. Like Hemingway, and legions of others who've tested themselves against nature, author Paul Knight has traveled to remote parts of the globe to reel in stories of epic adventures with rod and line. In Amazing Fishing Stories, he takes readers on a breathtaking expedi... read more