Fishing stories, Fly & Tenkara

Aitutaki Bonefish blues

Note: disaster struck once arriving back in Oz. A computer crash somehow managed to delete the 300 or so fishing shots I had from Aitutaki. So, this post, which was going to be fish pic heavy is now filled with “lifestyle” pics instead. Sorry  We arrived on Aitutaki on a Sunday. Aitutaki is a pretty religious island and on Sundays…

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Vintage reel project II: Rebuild complete!

The thing about a broken foot is that you’re not distracted by things like, well, going fishing. Instead you’ve got some spare time on your hands where you might for example, start rebuilding your old man’s 1950-something Penn fishing reel that’s staring at you from the work desk.  If you missed the first installment of the Vintage Reel Project, basically…

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