Several years ago I worked in Wellington and it was July
and August, so their winter and I did not even plan for any fishing. One of
the people I worked with was a member of the Wellington Flyfishers club http://www.wellingtonflyfishers.org.nz/ and
I did attend one of their meetings. As it turned out, my friend took me fishing
with everything we needed loaned by members. Wonderful time (great fishing, no
catching). Truly wonderful people. The stories in the meeting were only a tad
shy of having the same experience for myself. Funny there they had the same
"argument" we had on this board several years later about flies with 3 or more
wraps of lead (is it still a fly?). Even more memorable, I am a great Rumpole
fan, and so many of the people in the club were easy to relate to the
characters; so if I watch the tapes or read the books, I get some wonderful
memories revived along with the entertainment. Another thing, at least in
Wellington, don't miss out on the dining. I thought we lived in a culinary
capital with a remarkable variety of seafood (and some other things too) and
fantastic quality, but I sometimes wonder if the only reason I still think that
is because I was not there quite long enough.
Enjoy,
Steve
And along the other line, if we don't do something, who
will? Every so often we get to be [???]s, but the rest of the time we either
must live with our own mistakes or the ones made by those other clowns, or take
advantage of the opportunity we always have to do something about
it.
My impression for others is that it's not cost effective to gear up there, in fact it might very well be cost effective to take gear there that you'd like to sell instead of bring back...of course this depends on the political climate at the time. ;)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dieter
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 6:30 PM
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Subject: morphed into fly gear in New Zealand
Have fun
Paul
On Nov 30, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Vladimir Steblina wrote:
Gee for a while there I was missing the messages in this group.
Of course, my positions are the only correct ones, so if the group is
really bored I can post them on ALL issues known to man.
But I would like one question answered.....Is there any fly gear in New Zealand
worth buying. Instead of dragging all my stuff down there....is it worthwhile
to buy New Zealand rods, reels, and other gear??
Vladimir
