Thread: Catch Any Trout Today?

Couple of Brownies from the Whakapapa and upper Whanganui Rivers, great part of the country

Beautifully coloured fish.

Thanks Shearer,

I must confess to increasing the saturation to pop the colour a tad.. but they were lovely dark coloured browns taken deep in the heads of a pool on the Whakapapa and Whanganui so the main fish in those pools/runs. Both taken on heavy weighted red headed nymphs not on the trailing light weight pheasant tails which is unusual for me anyway.

Cheers

Did a road trip today out to the Makuri Gorge,saw a beaut 12 pointer but wasn't on my hunting permit.

Gave a flick at the domain and landed one.

You should have flicked the rod at the stag Dundee. Now that would have been the stuff that legends are made of. Imagine the headlines in the local rag “Dundee plays stag for eight hours” when questioned, Dundee said “ I only cut the line because a man really needed a beer at that point “. Ha ha ha ha

This little Bow came home for lunch,



Hot smoked over manuka sawdust on a white bread roll.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Did a road trip today out to the Makuri Gorge,saw a beaut 12 pointer but wasn't on my hunting permit.
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Gave a flick at the domain and landed one.
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Ah.....you were going out again and came back with fish the day before yesterday, I drove 300km to a nobody around creek, tried nearly 100 casts, no single bites. Good for you to have your private playground that nearby. How long for you to drive your quad to the river, you said....10 minutes?

Spent a few hours fishing the Tongariro in steady rain this arvo. Was quite relaxing with the area to myself.
The river was murky and had a bit of rubbish coming down but I still managed to hook a few.
A nice silver 6lb hen that fought like a demon, into my backing several times before she finally conceded


And then a nice coloured 4lb jack that put on an awesome ariel display in his attempts to rid himself of the hook

This is really nice fish, the colors, and the taste

Originally Posted by Black Rabbit

Ah.....you were going out again and came back with fish the day before yesterday, I drove 300km to a nobody around creek, tried nearly 100 casts, no single bites. Good for you to have your private playground that nearby. How long for you to drive your quad to the river, you said....10 minutes?

About 5 minutes on the quad to get to the river,but it has been dirty for so long,that is why I try other rivers.Bloody quad not going to flash so I drive the car to the local now,when its clean.

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That Douglas looks very nice. It's one of the Sky G's?
That's one of the newer Hydros LT's also?

@kiwijames
Douglas DFX 6wt
Orivis hydros III
SA amplitude infinity fly line.

New for this trip, really impressed with the DFX, great rod, alot stiffer than my 5wt primal. Have a hydros on my 5wt as well and again impressed with these reels.

I am just a hack fly chucked but can feel difference in this set up over my primal raw 5wt rod and suit me better.

Hāwea dam has very low flow at the moment so have been fishing the lake outlet. Just a couple lures to snags so put a nymph on a float and landed a little rainbow hen for breakfast.

The Upper Clutha and Hāwea trout have lovely orange flesh, there must be plenty of koura about to nibble on.

All ways good river mouth fishing at this time of the year over yr way.Those rainbows love brown trout eggs drifting out the rivermouths.

Not a trout but close.
On the way to work today we drove across a small stream and I saw what I thought was a good size trout take off upstream of us. On the way home we stopped for a look and spotted two salmon in a slow moving part of the stream. One of them was tucked right up against the bank so I crept over and lay on the bank, slowly reaching over until I could feel the side of the fish. I moved my hand down to the base of its tail and gently lifted it from the water. The fish was pretty spent (probably having just spawned) so a few photos were taken and it was released back to join it's mate.

Not the way I usually chase salmon but a bit of fun to end the day.