Thread: Catch Any Trout Today?

My local river, the Tutaikuri has not been clear since around October 2022. That's over 6 months looking like chocolate milk so I tried some new water today in CHB.
After the floods and summer of non-stop rain the rivers and trout have not had a good time.
This stream was nice as one thing a flood will do is clean the place up if there's not too much.

The fish were in poor condition as is to be expected. Most look like they are freshly spawned when at this time of year they should be getting fat. I saw one old jack that was missing nearly most of his tail. I'm surprised the guy could still swim. He was tucked into the side of the river as I think the main flow would be too much for him. I was going to fish for him but it didn't look right. On closer inspection, there was just a white nub where his tail once was. Hope he makes it through winter.
Of the 3 fish I did catch one came out looking pretty good with the phone camera.