http://stalkingtrout.com Graeme Marshall is a leading New Zealand Fly Fishing & Trout Fishing Guide. Les Hill is a well known Photographer. Both are Authors of great New Zealand Trout Fishing Books Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:42:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What  a season it has been! Just when we thought salmon were on the verge of extinction like the proverbial Phoenix they have risen from the ashes. No matter how you look at it, its been a great season. Whilst a relative handful of very experienced and persistent anglers have ... http://stalkingtrout.com/the-salmon-bonanza-continues/ The response to Graeme's fly fishing course which operated over two Saturdays under the auspices of Opihi College in Temuka was quite unexpected with a number of would be participants turned away. A group of nine eager anglers turned up for the two days which included a practical session on ... http://stalkingtrout.com/learning-new-skills/ During nearly fifty years of angling I have witnessed many titanic battles between fisherman and trout. I can recall one fish I hooked on the Borland River that took fifty-seven minutes to land. Another brown, on the West Coast, assisted by the power of a swollen river, sped off downstream ... http://stalkingtrout.com/trophy-trout-hunting/ In the real estate cliche, "location, location, location," the repetition is simply to emphasise a point. In the present context each word has slightly different "meaning." The first highlights the idea of initially locating areas in rivers (or lakes) where trout probably reside. The second refers to seeking, in those ... http://stalkingtrout.com/location-location-location/ One of the greatest thrills for me in fishing for trout is that electrifying moment when a fish is spotted, especially if it is a large one, and still unaware of my presence. Few sights can reduce me to a shaking jelly so quickly. Despite the excitement generated by the sighting ... http://stalkingtrout.com/fishing-to-sighted-trout/ 'Images of Silver' creates in my mind pictures of clarity, vividness and sparkle; pictures of luxuriance, vitality and purity; things to be desired, treasured, valued to the utmost. In angling terms it portrays crystal-clear waters, deep green pools and sparkling ripples with margins of flourishing forests or grasslands, crimson-flanked rainbows and ... http://stalkingtrout.com/images-of-silver/ The glorious weather just went on and on at the end of this season. Most fly fishers must have had a surfeit of top fly fishing earlier in the season as the pressure went right off in the last two months. The balmy late summer and autumn weather and lack ... http://stalkingtrout.com/the-end-of-a-great-season/ Canterbury is Chinook country. Many anglers concentrate on this species to the to exclusion of all else when they start to run up the snow-fed rivers from late November until April. While recent seasons have been less than memorable hope springs eternal and despite high rivers the prospects are not ... http://stalkingtrout.com/not-a-trout-story/ Many of the South Island’s premier trout streams have suffered badly from floods this spring. Whilst many have finally begun to settle down many fly fishers have been frustrated by the sheer lack of clear, fishable water. Not so in South Canterbury. The first couple of months of the season have ... http://stalkingtrout.com/brown-trout-galore/