As some of you already know for the last year or so I have been having some great fun catching these on the fly
But anyone who knows me, will realise just how badly I am missing my Trout Fishing at home in Scotland
So with this in mind, I somehow managed to convince my wife that our Honeymoon should be spent in New Zealand!
As per usual I have left everything until the last minute and it suddenly dawned on me last week whilst booking the flights that I had next to no trout fishing gear with me in Malaysia! Since we are flying there March 30th Panic suddenly struck in and a quick phone call to my Dad (Edfish on the forum) was in order.
By the end of the phone call I suddenly realised that the fishing gear for this trip has almost entirely been assembled from the Forum!
The current list of gear traveling with me so far is this:
Freshwater
Sage TCX 9' 6# (bought by my Dad from Sandy)
Greys 9' 6# (back-up rod stolen from my mother last time home)
Tibor reel (again from Sandy)
Abel 5 (Loaded with a sink tip - hoping to use this for streamers)
Barrio GT90 (bought from Mike)
Saltwater
Helios 9' 9# Tipflex (purchased from Ben)
Abel Super 10 (gifted by Dad at xmas)
Greys 9' 10# (back-up rod)
various 9# & 10# Lines including some from Ben/Sandy
With three of Dad's trout boxes and my box of Saltwater/Snakehead flies I'm more than halfway there!
Though I did notice on the delivery invoice for the trout flies these were only insured for 100 quid - wonder if I could just send the money back and keep the flies
So basically thanks to Ben, Sandy, Mike and my Dad I have enough of the main things to get me going! This is one of the really cool things I like about this forum! I Will be picking up additional terminal tackle etc both here in Malaysia and when I arrive in NZ.
So since I feel this is somewhat of a Forum sponsored trip. Any advice from the guys who have fished down there in the past (MIKE!) would be greatly received! I'll even throw in the promise of writing a proper fishing report for once!
To say I am excited about the trip is a serious understatement! Both my Dad and I have wanted to fish New Zealand for as long as I can remember! It sucks that my Dad won't be there with me but I just see this as a reccie mission before we can make it down there together!
Steven.