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Thread: Catch Any Trout Today?

  1. #3721
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    Quote Originally Posted by kukuwai View Post
    I will be keeping an eye out for #50 tomorrow then

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Caught this rainbow on the Manawatu River #55 for the year.
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    You mean size #15 right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahr View Post
    We are neck and neck again. I'm on 49 deer.
    @Tahr Never thought you do fishing, thinking you might too busy with deer and reloading I just wondering where those 49 deer went to, pet food?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Black Rabbit View Post
    @Tahr Never thought you do fishing, thinking you might too busy with deer and reloading I just wondering where those 49 deer went to, pet food?
    The deer mainly go to people in need.
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    what a bloody legend Tahr and thanks for your help on the employment job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Black Rabbit View Post
    You mean size #15 right?
    It was a bit heavy but swung it in a deep pool,joe gave me some lighter ones also.
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    Still plenty of fish in the Taupo rivers.60 odd for a few days fishing.Name:  B591652A-3EAB-4F43-A1DB-B6082F6E217A.jpeg
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    Yip the Tongariro is fishing well river mouths still pretty slow. Hooked 3 out of the same pool in 30min. This amateur fly fisherman managed to land one.
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    Only 2 sleeps to brown time !!!!
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    No luck off to the bigger river
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    Gotta get ya nuts wet apparently
    Well two fish later I was convinced...
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    He was out of the truck,and gone
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    Result pending.
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    Nice bit of river there,gota be trout in those deep holes.
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    Ended the day 50/50 four hooked two landed, cover a few miles , saw good number of fish nothing over 3 pound! Water clear but fish weren’t to spooky! Great day out in the sun!
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    Did you use the rig heads on the spinners from @Joe Schmo
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Did you use the rig heads on the spinners from @Joe Schmo
    Yes they are damn effective, them Rapala and a few other bits and pieces were tried over the course of the day!

    That’s Joe Schmo doing the fishing.
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    @stingray’s Discount Guide Service
    It was a great day!!
    Soon to be Joe and Joe’s trout slayers incorporated…in a decade or so
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