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After having trouble with getting strikes but no hook ups, lost 8 on Friday nite. I have since tied the fly to a shorter not smaller hook. Last nite I lost one and landed one. The one I landed was in very good condition around 6lbs. Have filleted it for tea tonite.
Had a mean mutton roast tonight.....burrrp! Stayed home to carve the meat and eat with the family.
Left the quad at 1918hrs at the river by 1928hrs and leaving the river at 1950hrs.:yuush:
Jacobs pool again,a nice solid rainbow hen.:)
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This morning Rambo and I headed down river, caught three, released two due to their size. We sighted quite a few more. All an all a good morning.
1. catch and release.
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2. In my fridge (smoker date tomorrow) + my new improvised iki spike.
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Cheers.
Taupo is magic today, went out to the left, round the point from Whangamata Bay Kinloch. Nice rainbow off the reef approx 35 metres. Hit the ginger mock just as it hit the bottom, probably filled them down. Good strong fight on light jigging gearAttachment 35489Attachment 35490Attachment 35491Attachment 35492Attachment 35493Attachment 35494
Looks like a nice day on the water Maca. Had a few feeds of rainbow lately, superb eating!
Not often the lake stays like that all day, can't beat a day on the lake when it's like that, good old ginger mick never fails, spent the rest of the day sleeping and polishing the boat @Raging BullQuote:
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What river you fishing? Love those stones river beds, lived in Masterton in my youth, fished the Waipoua, Waingawa Rumahanga and the lake that fed the power station out Gladstone, good perch fishing there in those daysQuote:
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We hat crumbed rainbow trout and chips last night.:thumbsup:Quote:
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Trout for lunch tomorrow, filleted with skin on, cut into about 20 mm slices, salt and peppered, cooked on their side in butter and little bit of oil, awesome
Number 3 now, will be in the smoker tonight.
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Much weed down your end Rambo? Manawatu or Pohingina?
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Rangitikei dundee, yea strting to weed up again. Was good a couple of weeks ago
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Got a ice cream container of blackberries. Did 2 pools and the 2nd on the 2nd cast had a nice fat trout. Whole of river valley to myself. Only in NZ. It is called paradise.
Manawatu River has had a good flush and is fishable again with all the weed gone.:thumbsup:
Landed two tonight one made it to the fridge:)
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I didn't catch it but had a feed of trout Friday night, bloody nice it was too.
Plenty of trout moving and feeding in the Rotorua rivers. Landed 3 small (2 pound) aggressive feeding rainbows and lost a nice brown (4-5 pound) all within about 45 minutes
Just finished fishing the Police fishing contest. I only caught 1 fish for 2 1/5 days wtf
Oh bugger, thats not the one. Was it decent at least?
Up the ngo anyway they were going crazy, was struggling to get to the bigger fish as the little ones were snapping up my flies before the flies got far enough down to get to the bigger ones
Caught a nice solid rainbow jack this arvo.
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Saw the fins break the water out by those logs so threw it a articulated streamer and it was all on.:)
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Landed another rainbow tonight on my homemade flies tied from a mate in Chistchurch.
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Released this one.
Both were caught on the black streamer on my spinning rod with a splitshot weight behind the fly.
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I'm a privileged bastard! There's not many places in the world as good as this! 10min trout on an imitation mouse
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Bloody beauty Maca,now I just need too click my neck in as the pics were sideways:)
What a beauty:cool:
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Not as good a nick as I thought when I filletted it. But breakfast will be good!:thumbsup:
At Jakeys pool this arvo looking for ducks but gave the lure a swim:D
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And another good result,this pool has fed us well.:)
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Looks like you guys got on better than me. Saw plenty of both rainbows and browns, some of them pretty solid as well but just couldn't get anything hungry enough to eat whatever I offered them. The buggers are getting picky haha
I haven't been out lately because of all the rain we've had, but I got this a week or so back.
My first brown Trout (put up a good fight), the river was just calming down and a bit murky. I smoked it along side a rainbow for caparison, both turned out great but I found the the rainbow a touch better.
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Catch a small koy carp from the same river as the one your fishing on, can't introduce from another source, and live bait it with a hook through its back and a small balloon to hold it in the water. Browns will go for them. You will note a bit of fast balloon action before the trout strikes its prey, wait for it to turn it, has to eat head first because of the scales. Then wamo! Give it a try.Quote:
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Nickel spinner?
Black rublexQuote:
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Cheers mate, but not allowed bait to my knowledge where I am fishing. And I dont think there are carp around anyway. Certainly haven't seen any anyway but thanks for the tip regardless
Did manage however to get a nice brown, just over 8 pound late last night and gave me a good run around though various snags before I was able to net it. Should be some nice eating tonight
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The Waikatos full of the dirty bloody things! Try some cheese on a small hook! :thumbsup:@CspenceQuote:
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Dipped my line in Taupo tonight! All the trout away on QB duty but shit it's relaxing and peacefulAttachment 37007Attachment 37008
Oh nah, I always go back to Rotorua to fish. Grew up right next to the Ngongotaha stream. Some bloody big browns lurking there
Was only a few hits here under breast hills nothing landed but still a good arvo:)
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Fished and froze my arse off yesterday, in the lake, bought new waders, till 10 pm last night, closest I got was a fish that followed the lure in and scared the bejesus out of me by rising about a foot in front of me! Too much moon, three of us fishing for nought. The Hardys rod and reel is very easy to cast!
Heading home, (back to Rotorua) this weekend if anyones keen to go for a fish maybe sunday night or monday
