Fly Fishing Course, 28/29th Jan 2012
Our course for 2012
was once again full. A brilliant group of enthusiastic
people keen to learn turned up at Fish & Game offices meeting
room ready to listen and learn. Our thanks to Fish & Game
for the use of their premises.
Mike Weddell went through all
the things you need to know about fly fishing in his usual relaxed but
very informative manner.
After lunch the draw was held
for the Airflo Backpack Vest (retail value $149) was held, won by Robin Murch (below).
Then a bag of our sponsors
products supplied by Manic Tackle & Allan White Sports, was
handed out to each
of the 17 course participants (retail value of $55)
We do thank our sponsors very
much for their support, and hope that the course participants will show
their appreciation to our sponsors in the future, buying their products.
Saturday afternoon proved too
windy to hold the casting practice on the park, so we had to resort to
the Hargest Gym.
Sunday on the river proved
very interesting, dashes of sun here and there, mostly cloudy conditions
with plenty of wind (coming in gusts) laced with a few brief showers, and a river
that was a little higher than normal and coloured, but still fishable.
Despite the weather, casting
practice was held and fish were caught during the practice session.
After a leisurely lunch, people were split up into small groups and went
fishing with a club member. While some fish were caught, probably
the best aspect of the course would have to be that people learnt that
despite all the un-favourable conditions, you can still fly fish, and if
you think positively about fishing, you just might end up with a trophy
on the day.

(Right) Kevin McNatty holds a nice little Mataura
brownie, caught in the afternoon session of the course.
Click
here... if you would like to see more pictures from the course.
Click
here... to see pictures on the "Roll Cast" being demonstrate
by our course tutor Mike Weddell.
The Southland Fly Fishing Club acknowledges the support
of our sponsors, and ask that you support them.
About Manic Tackle Project
Manic Tackle Project has been established because we love fly fishing
and we
wanted to create a business that we would enjoy working in and would
benefit
the people around us. We're lucky to have a great group of friends in
the
tackle industry, both retailers and suppliers. There is no question that
Manic couldn't have happened without these friendships and for that
we're
extremely grateful.
Our simple goal here at Manic is to design and distribute cool products
and
teach people everything we can about fly fishing. We've created this
website so you can check out the products we are selling in our products
pages and even look at the products we're working on in our Manic Blog.
More
than anything we believe that if you're keen enough as an angler to be
reading our website then we want to hear from you so feel free to drop
us an
e-mail or better still log in and post a comment on our blog or photo in
our
galleries.
Check us out at
www.manictackleproject.com and our magazine at
www.flyfishersinc.com