Thread: Catch Any Trout Today?

Originally Posted by bomber

Just on dark is awesome to watch heaps rise, willow grubs I'd say, i need a decent camera to film it.

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Evening rise would just as much be caddis flies. I remember going into the Caltex in Dannevirke and the whole forecourt was alive with sedge one late summer evening.
Willow grubs on the other hand will go all day. I watched a procession of trout the other morning feeding on the little buggers. I too need a better camera. Would have been very cool to video.
The trout become very selective then and are hard to fool.

It sure can be frustrating when they're on the willow grub. I remember countless hours watching large Hautapu browns sitting under overhanging branches gorging themselves on the little buggers and completely ignoring anything else.

I use to tie lemon coloured thread on a #14 0r #16 caddis hook and fish it on a 15-20cm dropper under a Blowfly Humpy with reasonable results.

Originally Posted by wsm junkie

It sure can be frustrating when they're on the willow grub. I remember countless hours watching large Hautapu browns sitting under overhanging branches gorging themselves on the little buggers and completely ignoring anything else.

I use to tie lemon coloured thread on a #14 0r #16 caddis hook and fish it on a 15-20cm dropper under a Blowfly Humpy with reasonable results.

Got half a dozen on order. Size 16

That's pretty similar to what I tied less the foam bit and the thread came round the bend almost to the barb and had a little black thread for the head. I also used a more pale yellow.
Be interesting to see how they go for you.

The trouble that you fellahs go to for a fish. Whack a mouse on a hook. Sorted!

Originally Posted by Rushy

The trouble that you fellahs go to for a fish. Whack a mouse on a hook. Sorted!

A possum with the gut open tied by the tail to a rope awesome for eels, throw it in eels wrap up in intestines....feed caught.

So prefer trout fishing tho😛



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Originally Posted by kiwijames

Got half a dozen on order. Size 16

Must try that, some evenings on dark seen upto 50 rising just they not interested in my lures then..

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Originally Posted by bomber

A possum with the gut open tied by the tail to a rope awesome for eels, throw it in eels wrap up in intestines....feed caught.

So prefer trout fishing tho��



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Bomber at least fifty years ago I was fishing for eels in a similar way. First find road kill possum, next rip the guts open and throw it in the shallows and then stand by waiting with the old man's slasher. Whack. Off with the head

Originally Posted by Rushy

Bomber at least fifty years ago I was fishing for eels in a similar way. First find road kill possum, next rip the guts open and throw it in the shallows and then stand by waiting with the old man's slasher. Whack. Off with the head

Fark @Rushy are we now classed as old cunts

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Originally Posted by bomber

Fark @Rushy are we now classed as old cunts

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Yep you both are

New lure,not the ammo ...brown one hooked it.

Released

Dog was going what the "fuck wheres my trout?"

Crate evening fish 1st one out from under the willows Change of lureRiver cross and castOne in the bagSmall brown in side stream.

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https://vimeo.com/194140767
Trout rising this evening 1st one was a good size..hope video comes out

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We call a river that runs that way a waterfall up here.

nice fish this morning, kept 1 and lost a couple