“Fly-in” fishing for giant trout is what most people can only dream about and a few fortunate ones get to do. But when flying a plane or a chopper is part of your profession, this becomes part of your job! My buddy Sean is one of those fortunate ones!

Sean, who is a pilot, shuttles between NZ and Singapore on a regular basis. What a job! Shuttling between two different paradise (Business paradise and fishing paradise). In any case, Sean wrote back about his awesome trip just two days ago with some pictures to prove that this wasn’t just one of his fantasies in the middle of the night.

Here is an excerpt of what Sean wrote in his email :

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Up early this morning 0430hrs to prepare the aircraft. It is another beautiful summer day here of 17ºC. It started off a bit cloudy as seen in the attached pictures. It cleared up in the late morning to be a perfect dry fly ONLY fishing day.

Yesterday I mentioned about our intention of chasing these rainbow in this ” private property ” and here we are! We have the whole place to ourselves.

I landed 10 rainbow trout today, all dry fly action; they took Royal Wulff, Blow Bottle and Red Humpy. Awesome fishing! All visual sight casting! They were not big fish but hard fighting silver bullets! Sighting them was half the fun already and to sweeten it, present a dry fly first time on target and you will surely be rewarded.

The rod I was using was my 6wt Winston LT!! The wind was light; the river condition was perfect and a sunny day to give away the fish position. You can see their “greenish back” or a moving shadow. It was total enjoyment with the LT playing these rainbows in fast running waters.

The second day was another hard working day… . The awesome fishing on this river goes on the whole day. We hiked another 11 km upstream today. Note how clear it was and a lot of “holding waters” for the fish. This is a classic rainbow trout river!! I have my “Yu” (Fish) for the New Year! (My good friend Black Fish on this email list, sorry no “Yu Sheng” for you, I am not taking one of those trout back to you on Chinese New Year! ) I will be happy to buy you one from Market Place.

Tomorrow, we are planning another “reconnaissance” trip to a closely guarded trophy brown trout river. I had landed 15 browns there in a day before, and all were big.

If we find them there tomorrow, they will be big. Only way in is by air! So it is very remote, and very much protected from other anglers.  It all depends on river condition and after that it is another 10km walk each way to work upstream and back to the airstrip. It’s all part of a day’s work here!

I have no idea if they will be there, but I will certainly be delighted to update you again tomorrow.

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You can see more of the pictures in the slide show here

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