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    Quote Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin View Post
    No trout today, but I did get a new weapon...
    It's a 7/8 NZ Green reel, which goes for around $120. Let me know if there is interest, and I'll write up a review on the forum. So far, so good...
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    How is the reel working out ? Decent drag? Sharp price

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    Using savage gear softbaits,landed this one the other day.I rig up a 4gm ball rig for deeper pools and a light 1/4oz tear drop rig for shallow water.
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    Nice little brownie
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    "Thats not a knife, this is a knife"
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    @Dundee Great looking wee swim tail softbaits. Are you sure the 'tear drop' is 1/4 oz looks like a 1/16th ??
    I use some little fine clips made by 'Dragon' instead of swivel clips. They are very good and avoid the clanging that swivel clips can make when the soft is pulsed - sink, lift, sink, lift
    I'm glad to see you fishing again, but isn't this the time of year to be stacking Hares in the freezer for Bo ?
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    1/4oz Moa Hunter,Bo is on day three of hare meals tomorrow, then back to Tux for a bit.Fishing has been tuff lately in the upper section of the mid Manawatu the spawning runs haven't quite got this far up yet.And only a few tribs above where I fish. Might have to try Oringi again next weekend where more tribs flow into the river.
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    I was wrong @Moa Hunter the tear drop rig is 1/8oz
    "Thats not a knife, this is a knife"
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    18/8 Oringi Manawatu river
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    Caught on the rooster tail
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    24/8 Five minutes from home.
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    Rooster tail again.
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    "Thats not a knife, this is a knife"
    Rule 2: Always point firearms in a safe direction
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    Got this the other day....not sure if its a jack or a hen
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    A couple from the last two days.
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    Soft bait paddle tail,hooked the jack.
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    And the hen was caught on a rooster tail.
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    "Thats not a knife, this is a knife"
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    Typical hen eh. Chasing rooster tail.
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    Experience. What you get just after you needed it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trapperjohn View Post
    Two from Northland, each just a shade under 4lbAttachment 150108
    Northland?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauli View Post
    Northland?
    Yes Northland, The region north of Auckland.
    Trout are releasies from the Rotorua hatcheries, released by Fish and Game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by trapperjohn View Post
    Yes Northland, The region north of Auckland.
    Trout are releasies from the Rotorua hatcheries, released by Fish and Game.
    Some years ago, my mother was sequestered in Whangarei Hospital. Not being able to keep a bedside vigil for too long and being a keen fly-fisherman, I ventured out and fished any stream I could find that Mrs Google had identified. I did catch a very small trout in a stream off just north of Kamo on the by-pass.

    Kai Iwi Lakes perchance?
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    Nailed it.

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    Opening day blank!

    First stream up and dirty, second up but clearing.

    Caught my first streamside vegetation for the season...a bit rusty.
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