Indholdsfortegnelse for Issue 190 - Spring 2024 i Trout Fisher

Excerpts from Chapter 6 of The Klink, by Hans van Klinken © Hans de Groot, Franklin Moquette and Ton Lindhout came up with the striking name … while editing my story for the Nederlandse Vliegvisser and it has stuck ever since … Personally I believe that most mistakes that are made while tying Klinkhåmers occur because people are stubborn, don’t read the instructions properly, and tie my fly from looking at pictures and don’t listen to the thoughts behind the pattern, and why I use certain materials. I have dozens of examples why Klinkhåmer Special flies fail and most I can refer back to people using different materials to the ones I suggest in my dressings. I think before attempting to tie a Klinkhåmer Special properly, you would benefit from…

While my actual salmon fishing for the 1995-96 stopped with me finally having employment in what was meant to be a reliving casual position, it turned out to be mostly night shifts that left not enough time to fish. However I then started to get short term contracts. Filling in while other social workers took well deserved annual leave gave me days off but the salmon season was finished. That gave me a chance to move on to the 4th stage of my salmon addiction, “Learning about the salmon fishery”. This started with looking for written information. Most up until now had come from fishing magazines such as Fish & Game, which then came out bimonthly, but the one I got the most salmon information from was Allen Burgess' South…

It’s an early 1960 Spring and a boy is targeting a heavily-overgrown section of a Somerset brook, already fully aware that’s where to find the least-disturbed fish. He’s still fixed spool but it’s as light as he can realistically keep it in this environment – the Intrepid Elite loaded with a 3lb breaking strain nylon spool and a worm threaded onto a hook. His 6' solid glass Milbro spinning rod will cast this dead-drift set-up a surprising distance but there’s no need here; find an opening in the overhanging brush, get into a position to cast without exposing yourself, wait for a target, cast, hook anything that takes and then, try to land it. Within moments he’s faced with a small shoal of roach and immediately, out from under some…

GHOST NET KNIVES Did you know there is enough fishing line abandoned each year to wrap around the equator 400 times, and enough abandoned fishing nets to cover the entirety of Scotland? Drifting for years, these ghost nets terrorise everything in their path, from marine life to the marine environment. Nothing is safe. To help untangle this problem, NZ brand, The Ironclad Co. has created the first ever range of knives with 100% discarded fishing net handles - Ghost Net Knives. The commercial-grade knife range, made in partnership with 97-year-old knife maker Victory Knives, uses fishing nets recovered from nearshore areas of the ocean and every knife sold will haul a further 1kg of discarded fishing nets from the oceans. The 22cm Ghost Net Filleting Knife is the hero in…

One afternoon a few summers ago, on another river not too far from here, I was carrying a good sized trout back to my car when I stumbled across the farmer who owned the land we had trespassed on. Fortunately he did not mind in the least so I offered him a fresh caught fat Rainbow for his dinner. "Nah" he retorted -"I only eat Taupo trout!" How many times have I heard that? Considering the condition of the catches we have seen, or heard about when they escape over the last three seasons, we understand what the farmer meant. Trout are what they eat. Any fish growing up cruising around a clean pure snow-fed lake eating an abundance of smelt and Koura (freshwater crayfish) has to be a delicacy.…

Japanese tempura is recognised as the lightest form of frying. This recipe called karaage, is used when a larger fritter is fried rather than individual items. It is a good way of making a small amount of fish go a long way. INGREDIENTS 400g fresh trout or salmon fillet; 2 peeled carrots (around 120g); 1 small peeled kumara (around 160g); 1 courgette (around 170g); ½ small red onion; cauliflower (around 140g) TEMPURA BATTER 2 cups all purpose flour; ¾ cup potato or cornflour; ½ cup chilled water; 1 egg; 2 teaspoons salt DIPPING SAUCE 4 tablespoons Japanese soy sauce; 4 tablespoons mirin; 2 teaspoons sugar ACCESSORIES 1 litre Vegetable frying oil – canola or soya is fine.; a couple of tablespoons extra flour; ½ cup Kewpie Mayonnaise (Japanese mayonnaise but…