Smack in the middle of New Zealand’s North Island, just to the southeast of Lake Taupo, is a gin-clear, forest-fringed river called the Tauranga-Taupo. For veteran fly-fishermen like my old friend Dan ...

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Talk of fly-fishing in New Zealand causes little sparks to dance across the fisherman‘s pupils. The non-fisherman doesn’t understand. He asks why, but the fisherman is already gone, in his mind, where ...

IN Gore, a town of 12,500 on the South Island of New Zealand, street signs proclaim that the visitor has arrived in the world capital of brown trout. To reinforce the point, town officials have ...

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Fly fishing at its most basic level is just another technique for catching fish. On a deeper level, it’s both a blood sport and an art form that is partly based around making the act of fishing more ...