New Zealand

North and south island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean

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A Year in the Life Dec 9. 2017 Exiting Jonathan Tomlinson's video "A Year in the Life" is an hour of mesmerizing fish porn. Or should I call it fish erotica? That sounds a bit more sophisticated	Trout Bohemia Dec 6. 2015 Excerpt “I need to go away for a while. Let’s put some time and space into this.” Read the first chapter of Derek Grzelewski's book Trout Bohemia. Find it here
Derek Grzelewski Dec 6. 2015 New Zealand Some 30 years ago I came to New Zealand and fell in love with the place, its landscapes, rivers and its trout. Read his bio here	The Searunners Jun 14. 2015 Estuaries An introduction to an underappreciated and almost unknown fishing in New Zealand: fishing for sea run trout. Read more here

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Review Only the River Knows Dec 7. 2012 I have no idea why this DVD has the subtitle "A Fly Fishing Tragedy". It's not a tragedy. It's a celebration! A celebration of New Zealand. A celebration of friends going fishing.	Blog entry The video formerly known as... Nov 8. 2012 I attended the sneak preview of the video Only the River Knows, formerly known as The Trout Also Rises. Great video! I'm looking forward to reviewing the DVD.	Article Only the River Knows The Trout Also Rises Oct 4. 2012 Support Another crowdsourced video is emerging, and we at GFF think it deserves some support, so we call upon the GFF army to chip in and get some nice perks. Read about the project here
Review The Trout Diaries Jul 6. 2012 Derek Grzelewski's book The Trout Diaries takes the reader on a relaxed, yet exciting trip through the seasons of a year in a fly-fisherman's life.	Article Fishy photos: Stu Hastie Jun 12. 2012 Pictures Stu Hastie is a New Zealand photographer whose work first came to my attention through our user's image galleries and his posts on Facebook. The quality was top notch, and being in NZ he didn't seem to have a shortage of subjects. Read about Stu and see his photos here	Article The Trout Diaries Aug 8. 2011 Book "Yous fellas fishin'?" a Maori guy asked on the shore of Lake Otomangakau. I said we were having a look. "Plenty a fish here, bro. Big bastards, too. But bloody hard to catch, ay." Read an extract of Derek Grzelewski's book The Trout Diaries here.
Review Destination Trout - New Zealand Jul 20. 2011 If you have plans to go to New Zealand or just want a confirmation that New Zealand is a worthwhile destination to put on your list of places to fish before you lay down your rods, this is a DVD yo	Review The Source - New Zealand Jul 11. 2011 The Source DVD's are growing into a series with chapters on Tasmania, New Zealand and Iceland.	Review Green Tide May 11. 2010 We are used to seeing New Zealand in connection with fly fishing. The North and South Islands renowned fishing for trout is so well covered in video and text that it's almost tiresome...
Review Revolution Jan 19. 2010 I feel a poem coming... Don't say that I didn't warn you! Here goes:	Review Catch the moment Dec 17. 2009 A fly fishing video made by Germans is a welcome addition to a continuous stream of Commonwealth and US based videos.	Review Trout Bum Diaries - Kiwi Camo May 27. 2007 About 56½ minutes into this DVD one of the participants says: "When we woke up in the morning, we had no idea where we were. It kinda looked like we set up camp in some farmer's driveway.
Review New Zealand Trophy Waters Dec 25. 2003 I'm watching a guy wading an ice cold snow melt water stream in New Zealand as I write this. On a video of course (or should that be unfortunatly?).	Blog entry New Zealand Aug 21. 2003 I wanna go there!	Article Fishing New Zealand Feb 28. 1999 Down under In this article I will give an in depth explanation to why people fly half way around the earth to fish for trout. Besides that I will offer advice to people who have speculated about going there on a fishing adventure. The reasons why New Zealand is considered the prime destination when it comes to trout fishing are many...

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