Landed one tonight, a very good evening rise on the Manawatu, too bad I was using a spinner.
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Landed one tonight, a very good evening rise on the Manawatu, too bad I was using a spinner.
And some bad news. Check fish samples. But then milk samples are an eye opener. Baby bait.
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A turn up for the books in a very small tidal Catlins creek, one proud dad and an extremely chuffed 6 year old :)
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Beast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparrow
You’ve ruined him for life now [emoji6]
That's a cracker mate well done
Cooling off here in Northern Canada, had a few hours on the House river northern Alberta, fly fishing for Artic grayling, I caught about 8, most were very small, 4" or so, couple about a 1/2-3/4 lb, 10-12", Nice Fall day, loving the new 4wt, Scott fly rod, hopefully new time I catch one worthy of a photo.
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Ha ha That is a worry,he’s a good lad calling it teamwork but all I did was tighten the drag so he could stop it and perform landing duty when got it to me, it’s about 3lb bigger than my pb 😬
Holy shit, well doneQuote:
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Where does the rest of the season go from here?
Cracker looks fat , bet its been feasting on bait .
Was in great nick, very surprised when it’s gut was completely empty, it did take a whitebait looking softbait ��,we let a lot go but the boy wanted to take this one home to show off and fair enough, it’s fed 4 adults and 4 boys tonight, real good and plenty left.
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Just accross the road and never seen it happen, congrats.
Ha ha yep it’s a unique spot, we lost 2 about twice the size in the pads, was bloody cold but.
First trout for me for the new season was last Saturday as the river had just cleared.The heavens opened up while I was down there and river rose fast and got dirty quick too.27 mils fell in the catchment making it dirty for the next 5 days.This was 3.45lb caught on an enticer lure.
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Beaut arvo on the Manawatu R .
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There are no trout in the Waitaki river this year, well except for the six my fishing buddy caught and released, at all times within sight of me today.
The one that got away doesn't count as 7 , right?
I congratulated him each and every time though the teeth were a little clenched by the fourth.
Took me 13 days to get out and get a few runs on the board for 2010/2020 season.
Tried some new water as I was getting bored fishing the same reaches.
First cast success too I hope this bodes well for the coming season. The other 3 I dropped don’t count though.
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Pretty water.
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This guy watched me from his office for a while
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That first fish looks like it has freezer burn [emoji51]Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
I've not been for a decent fish for a while so decided to take the rest of the week off and explore some new turf.
I'm also received my new Lamson Litespeed and another Scientific Angler MPX line. It really loads the Radian well and is an awesome setup now.
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Caught a couple more today
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Landed a solid rainbow on a lure that is the closest to a frog imitation that I have in my tackle box.
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Put up a really good fight.
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Another rainbow from the same pool as above.
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Today I went way upstream where my Grandads brother use to farm after WW1.
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Lost a good rainbow that snapped my nylon and took of wearing a lip peircing!
Saw plenty and landed this nice brown.
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I boated a small half pound rainbow and a pound brown...then as per the norm drove boat and netted browns for the Mrs...she is a fish catching machine some days.
lake opuha sure wasnt going off fish wise,far too many fizz boats zooming around all day long for trout to be settled/comfortable......it seems in last few years the new treand is for jetboats to hoon as fast as possible as close as possible to the shore/treeline.....absolute murder on ducklings aswell as a not so good thing for the fish.
Another good brownie point for me at grandads brothers old farm.
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A couple from Taupo on the weekend. This one is a real munter @ 4.3kg, biggest caught in the lake by the group over 25yrs
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The following would have cleaned up any other year but was a distant second @ 3.01kg
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Are they both "browns" ?Quote:
Originally Posted by 6x47
Caught a few with the family last weekend in Taupo, tried jigging from the kayak which worked well.
Caught another 3 off the Waipakihi last night.
Yup, browns. You're doing bloody well on Toepaw getting a 3kg rainbow in the lake .
I haven't been fishing this year, mainly due to the fact that I live in Jaffaville.
Got down to Rotorua last week and fished a few of the rivers. Fishing was difficult, galeforce winds in abundance and only caught three for the week!
One wee 2.2kg rainbow ended up in the pan, the other two I'll catch again next time.
No pics as Im a lone fisherman.
Finally got out for my first fish of the season. Went to a close local spot that gets a lot of traffic but still managed to pick up 7 on the nymph including this nice hen
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From '97 - '00 I worked with a Sth African bloke in Scotland. We terrorised the Highland lasses, and a good few thousand trout. Havn't seen him since them days, but he arrived here a few weeks ago. We've played around in the Ruahihi canal and Waioeka River with no real luck. Today we hit the Ngongotaha Stream, saw plenty, but no luck. Back down to the mouth and he was chuffed to land a 58cm brown(he literally dropped a second similar from his hands), and a 54cm rainbow. We didn't have scales. Good craic though.
Thought I should add to my above post detailing the gear he used. Clothing consisted of a pair of Croc like things on his feet, a pair of K-Mart type shorts, a cheap long sleeve polyester t-shirt, un-branded baseball cap. Rod is a freebie given to me by neighbour, a Taimer 4pc 9ft #6. Reel, BFR RimFly given to me already spooled with an unknown floating line. Fly was some harling fly he found in my trolling lures. That's it, none of that fancy, expensive, trendy shit you can't catch fish without.
First double figure trout for the season
Upper Grey river
650mm long 90mm wise
Awesome thick fish
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My dog was mucking around diving and looking for trout.
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I landed a small rainbow for the plate.
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River is getting very low.
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Landed another decent bow on the "joe fly".
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Photo bombed by the dog
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Few good feed will come from this one.
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Had a few days on the Tongariro, early this month, landed 20 plus fish, impressive evening rise, normally getting several trout, on the dry each evening.
best fish, touch under six from the bridge pool, swinging a woolly bugger, early in the morning,
Been using my new Epic fiberglass rod, 6 wt, real impressed, super nice to cast,
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Very few trout about here this year, not like last year when I was catching two a morning everyday by 5:30 am on a dry.
Got one last Thursday ( solid 4lber, photo ) and thought I would have a few more photos to post by now. Seems like trout just haven't followed the whitebait up the streams this year ??
Anyway due to a deficiency of trout a cobber and I shot a deer on Thursday evening and floated it down the river 'old school' to the wagon whole. Gutted it where we dragged it out put on the 'Game Gear' cape and carried it head and all to the wagon. Attracted quite an entourage of eels.Attachment 126149[ATTACH]
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Wee caddis worm doing the damage on a nice fiordland rainbow after work before the weather goes ape shit
Caught my PB Brown trout off the kayak at Karapiro, just using the good old black and gold toby. No scales to weigh but guessing around 4.5lb. Caught a few Rudd earlier in the day with the kids aswell.
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Finally managed to upload the picture.
Can I claim NZHS first trout of the year? or can anyone beat a lazy 12pm hen or two?
Both fish 1.6 kg from the TukiTuki (some cock dumped 150m3 off effluent making it unswimable into my local so I’ve had to head inland).
Picked up 5 in total for the afternoon with a couple being sardine material and another at 1kg. All good fit fighting fish. Not one jack for the day either.
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