Thread: Catch Any Trout Today?

Any tips for spin fishing the waikato river between Cambridge and Hamilton?have 12ft tinny and the kids swim a lot ,bought licences a while ago and have spinning setup,what lures work best?casting tips needed as well,current,calm Eddie’s?close to willows?what’s best?have a bunch of different types of lures I inherited recently..cheers

Got monstered on the Tongariro yesterday, indicator dipped and at the strike it felt like i was snagged, gave the rod a few wiggles to try and free it....nek minute my snag is swimming off heading back to the lake it wasnt a blistering run but you could just feel the power as it cruised down stream. Well into my backing and with it almost about to head into the rapids above the next pool i tried to put the brakes on and we parted ways
Got a nice consolation prize later in the evening fishing a stream mouth into the lake

@wsm junkie the dog gives you approval.Shame about losing the good one but hey thats fishing.

Back on my local.Bought this lure in Taihape..."Taihape terror" should of got a few of them.

Fished all the way down to the end of the run with only one hit.On the way back I changed to the brown vibrax.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Back on my local.Bought this lure in Taihape..."Taihape terror" should of got a few of them.
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Fished all the way down to the end of the run with only one hit.On the way back I changed to the brown vibrax.
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Good trout that Dundee, I always think your water looks like prime Rapala territory.

Dragged 3 out this am, and smoked.
Released 12, all rainbows, one shabby jack, all the rest beautiful condition, all in no time.

Again tomorrow, got to love these fresh run lake trout this time of year.

Not so much- Grumpy cunts who own the place, (one idiot cut another’s line after tangled by the idiots own fish)…


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I had my best day ever with the same lure today on the rangitikei. 13 fish only 1 small one. brought 1 home for dinner

Originally Posted by Danny

Dragged 3 out this am, and smoked.
Released 12, all rainbows, one shabby jack, all the rest beautiful condition, all in no time.

Again tomorrow, got to love these fresh run lake trout this time of year.

Not so much- Grumpy cunts who own the place, (one idiot cut another’s line after tangled by the idiots own fish)…


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Not wrong, the place certainly has its quota of stale old buggers that think all the good pools belong to them.

Got this last night on the Taihape Terror.,it was hooked in the gob when I landed it but after shaking around on the bank got rehooked as I took the pic.

green lumo soft bait tonight.

Yea ha good fighter!

Lucked another happy jack rainbow. Yesterday was a stunner day in the back country.

Went further upstream fishing on the edge.

It paid off..on the brown vibrax again.

Originally Posted by kukuwai

Took the boys up for a fish in lake argyle today. Got this one which was a bit different, first tagged fish I've ever seen in my life



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Any word on your prize yet? Just seen this post come up below.


Nearly half of the tags have been handed in from the Lake Argyle tag comp, and the first of the $500 Henderson's vouchers has been won already (well done William!). We've also given away a rod/reel set and a bunch of lure packs. There's still plenty of tagged fish out there and one of them is worth $500, plus there are some other great prizes swimming in the lake, so good luck!
Thanks again to Henderson's Ltd for their generous sponsorship!

Heading back upstream now,got one earlier on the toby.

@Dundee no prize for that tag number unfortunately but it was bloody tasty

Cheers for that info on the comp tho, interesting to read that. We are all pretty keen to go and catch a few more

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