Last year’s announcement by the 3M Company of their intention to acquire Ross Reels, the US-based manufacturer of high quality fly fishing reels, has now come about and this well-recognised fly fishing brand now becomes the stable-mate of 3M’s other iconic brand – Scientific Anglers. Read more…
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Fly Fishing Purchases Grow
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — Sales of fly fishing gear continued to show impressive gains with 59.3 percent of anglers reporting they bought fly fishing tackle in 2010. That was an increase of 4.1 percent over 2009. These findings, along with detailed information on the most purchased fly fishing brands, type of specific fly fishing gear bought, types of fish sought and fly angler demographics, are all reported on in Southwick Associates first ever comprehensive Fly Fishing Market Survey.
Additional key findings of the 2010 Fly Fishing Market Survey: flies were the most purchased type of fly fishing gear accounting for 60.9 percent of fly tackle transactions, Temple Fork Outfitters was the most purchased fly rod (15.4 percent of purchases), Orvis was the most purchased reel (23.5 percent) and trout remains king, sought by 66.3 percent of dedicated fly fisherman.
“The data we are able to collect specific to fly fishing each year continues to grow as part of our overall efforts to measure angler habits and purchases,” says Rob Southwick, president of Southwick Associates, which designs and conducts the surveys at HunterSurvey.com and AnglerSurvey.com. “Given the increased interest in fly fishing and the types of information we have collected, it was time to release a more comprehensive report dedicated to the sport.” Read more…
Mumbo Magic
It was with great anticipation that a mate of mine Anthony, a primary school teacher who suffers one of the cruellest cases of Fishalitis I have been witness to in many a year, and I launched “Cud-jingaa” my 5m GS Marine Hydracraft from the community Barge landing of Maningrida. Our destination was to be a large rocky bommie known as “Mumbo” that is 8klms from the barge landing. Mambo is roughly 1klm long and no more than 50 mtrs across, however only 60 mtrs is exposed at low tide. Around this rock I have caught a variety of fish with the most common being trevally, queen fish, mackerel, sharks (bronze whalers) and a few coral trout. Read more…
Fishing ‘Shady’ on Fly
The road down is quite good although getting chewed up rapidly. Launching involves a fair bit of drowning your vehicle particularly for those with heavier boats but not too bad by Shady standards.
We spent the day up around the top end, not even venturing as far as the S-bends.
After a while hanging around the 2nd barrage right up the top we only found a few rats and some big tarpon despite it looking incredibly fishy.
Luckily we were able to find some hungry barra in a number of locations by looking for colour changes where the water was flowing strongly off the floodplain. We fished mostly along the stretch down from the old boat, along the left hand side going downstream.
The very gusty conditions (combined with our lack of skill!) made fly fishing difficult so we were fishing on the dark side for a fair bit of the day. Read more…
When Eight is Enough!
For anyone born or living in the years from 1977 through to 1981, you may remember an American comedy-drama which aired on ABC called, strangely enough, Eight is Enough. While I would not class this as a fishing show, it is somehow strangely related to this article on fly fishing!
A recent trip out from Maningrida with good mate, Chris Nelson, highlighted this. And no he doesn’t have a family of eight!
I help set Chris up with a rod that in his words ‘had to do everything’. Chris was initially wanting something like a #10 weight outfit. While I am a fan of the #7 weight rods, I knew that Chris may be asking for a little more so I opted for a fly rod in the #8 weight range and went straight for a 4-piece TFO #8. Read more…
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