Fishing trips are synonymous with driving. In a country like Australia, this can mean lots of driving. To look at it another way, lots of driving means lots of time that is spent not fishing! So why not spend these wasted non-fishing hours thinking about fishing, learning about fishing or developing a greater understanding of fishing. It was this life…
Category: Film and movie reviews
The Natural Trout Stream Paradox
The paragraph below appeared in my email inbox recently, advertising a fishing film festival. “Gin-Clear Media’s Backcountry: South Island is the feature film of the festival. The South Island [of New Zealand] has vast tracts of some of the most intact, undisturbed natural areas left on our planet—these last truly wild places deliver beauty and isolation in spades but it…
Australian Fishing Basics by Rob Paxevanos: Book review
Writing a book that covers the basics of fishing in Australia is not an enviable task. In case you haven’t noticed, Australia is big. Really big. And incredibly diverse. Australian fisheries range from trout in sub-alpine lakes in Tasmania to the tropical sauna that is the northern territory Barramundi fishery. But this hasn’t stopped fishing writer, TV presenter and local…
Film review: Only the river knows
The editorial of this month’s FlyLife provided a juicy little insight into a new film to hit the flyfishing scene: Only the river knows. Keen to get some more info, I googled the title and found the trailer. It is compelling, to say the least. Check it out here. As Hamish was up staying, we decided to download the full…