This is just to introduce myself, my name is Mike and live in the central South Island of New Zealand.
I have been fly fishing for about 11 yrs and tying for around 6 yrs. I frequent a board in NZ and was searching
for something on fly patterns when I found your site (great database by the way).
It's funny when you join a new forum it takes a while to navigate the different setup/layout for the site....
the New Zealand one is a lot smaller so much easier to keep up with.
I have recently built my own house so now live about 500m from a lake, surprisingly I don't fish it as often as
I expected. My target species is Brown trout 99% of the time with the odd Rainbow thrown in to keep it interesting.
With tying I enjoy tying emerger patterns the most and a lot of nymphs... I have just recently built a compartmented
display box to house my overflow of flies in an attempt to carry less flies while fishing. I now carry 3 boxes while
fishing and keep the stock pile of around 2-3k at home. Here in New Zealand you don't need to carry specific patterns
for hatches so much so it's easy to carry a staple array of nymphs all year around. Being summer now, I do carry
an assortment of terrestrials for some top water action, I'm still waiting for some decent Willow grubbing action to
really kick off. I am on my summer holiday now, only to have heaps of rain blow out most of my favorite waters.
It just gives me some time to tie flies )
Well that's enough from me, just a quick intro.
Cheers
Mike.
A couple of pics to accompany my intro...
