Thread: Catch Any Trout Today?

Hitting the Canals tomorrow, I will post a report if I do any good.

pics of what you are using will be good too,fly,spinning?

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

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Are they sea runners? They look very "fresh". I'd love to see a few more browns in Hawkes Bay.

Report from canal as promised.
3 am start, on the road by 3.30 and a great run through to the canals.
Absolutely no flow at all and I mean none through the entire Hydro system from one end to the other. It was very strange to see the areas in front of the Dams mirror still.
As it turned out I met a worker who informed me they are doing a big maintenance / service on intake grills and other stuff .
No flow in the canals means very slow action and hard work along with changing the technique to more of a lake style .
Water was also a little milky from all the rain.
Landed a small Brown of around 2lb that I released , dropped 2 more and landed this Rainbow of around 5 - 5.5 lb. Great scrap.
Funny how many different colour softbaits I have but it's always one colour I get results on.
All in all a hard won day at the canals but lots of fun.

Can't be stuffed typeng a story tonight but yeah I got worms!

Originally Posted by Dundee

Can't be stuffed typeng a story tonight but yeah I got worms!
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You should learn to fly fish.

Few phots from the week after the toby shoot, fly fishing around Queenstown with an old mate, nothing real big, but we caught a few,
spent all day fishing round Gore for no luck, stopped at a flooded creek on lake Wakatipo, and couple flicks with the spinner in the lake, too high to get out over the drop off, first flick in the stream and hooked a trout, lost after 5 minutes. got a another couple hits on next two casts and a follow,
back to the ute and got the fly rod, fist cast to a nymphing brown and hooked on the dry, landed and second cast was at a brownie a few meters further up, and a rainbow flashed in and took nymph, gave rod to mate Ash and his second cast, was a nicer rainbow, lost one more a few casts later, funny the way it works out, Sum days.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Are they sea runners? They look very "fresh". I'd love to see a few more browns in Hawkes Bay.

Yes they will be but been in the river a while. I was fishing in a stream at full tide, the water being 60cm higher than low tide. Fish seem to like that inter-tidal zone.
I like to put a few of these ones in the freezer and then release any caught inland through the rest of the season.

Two more in the creel.

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Two more in the creel.
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Whitetail cast?

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Whitetail cast?

No, roll cast actually ! + Elk Antler - Trout are a 5 1/2 and a 3 1/2 Lb'rs

At the river at 5:05 am this morning. Good solid 6 pounder netted about 5:30 am. On a dry during the pre-dawn rise. Home by 6:30, and you blokes were all still in bed !!

Bloody tough fishing at the moment down here- upper waiau.

Weather patterns have been up the f!$k causing the rivers to almost become right after the rain just to then colour up again :-(

More leg work involved and man the fish are just picky as hell.

2.5pound rainbow this evening using a Rapala as usual.

Originally Posted by Rock river arms hunter

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Bloody tough fishing at the moment down here- upper waiau.

Weather patterns have been up the f!$k causing the rivers to almost become right after the rain just to then colour up again :-(

More leg work involved and man the fish are just picky as hell.

Not just you mate. Our rivers are like brown yo-yos. From nearly clean to dirty again. I’ve just bought two new setups and want to give them both a good thrashing it can’t due to this weather.