Thread: Catch Any Trout Today?

Shit thats a beaut kiwijames I had a bit of a flick today in the Manawatu River,it is still high but starting to clear only saw one and it flicked the pink lightening toby twice. Nothing landed.

Nice fat looking fish James

Walked up and down Ngongotaha Stream today, spooked about 10 odd trout, caught 30 odd branches with my line and drove back to Auckland empty handed.... FML!

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

Walked up and down Ngongotaha Stream today, spooked about 10 odd trout, caught 30 odd branches with my line and drove back to Auckland empty handed.... FML!

That sounds like my attempts at fresh water fishing, but without the trout

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Originally Posted by kiwijames

picked up a nice brown just up from the first bridge on the Waititi. Not a big fight but with 3.9lb tippet I was pretty shy to horse him too hard. Got it on the GoPro so will try to get it up. No net made for a hard landing job but it tailed well. Would have gone 3.0 - 3.5 kg.

Nice trout.

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

Walked up and down Ngongotaha Stream today, spooked about 10 odd trout, caught 30 odd branches with my line and drove back to Auckland empty handed.... FML!

The conservationists will like that.

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

Walked up and down Ngongotaha Stream today, spooked about 10 odd trout, caught 30 odd branches with my line and drove back to Auckland empty handed.... FML!

I figured I was on form picking up the last brown inside the first 5 min on the river only to be skunked yesterday afternoon. The Waiteti had a lot more colour even from Friday. Was the Ngongotaha less than clear?

Originally Posted by kiwijames

I figured I was on form picking up the last brown inside the first 5 min on the river only to be skunked yesterday afternoon. The Waiteti had a lot more colour even from Friday. Was the Ngongotaha less than clear?

it was slightly coloured tho clear enough to fly fish. did see a fish rising to feed to the top, others were mainly still until I spooked the living shit out of them. went with nymphs mainly, but no takers.
waiteti was also good and was my first pits stop, until few f-ckers kayaked down stream.

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

it was slightly coloured tho clear enough to fly fish. did see a fish rising to feed to the top, others were mainly still until I spooked the living shit out of them. went with nymphs mainly, but no takers.
waiteti was also good and was my first pits stop, until few f-ckers kayaked down stream.

You were wearing a Simms cap?

Got that vid yet kiwijames?

Messed around a bit with iMovie. Ben Harper is cool but doesn't do a 9min track. Edited out the bit where i tried to phone my wife to get the kids to bring a net.
The fish was solid especially through the shoulders (typical Rotorua brown). It looks a bit slabby in the video but was a pretty fit fish in the flesh. Beautiful colours.
No messing around to go back so hopefully not too tired and should recover well. I think I saw it again this morning in the same spot.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Messed around a bit with iMovie. Ben Harper is cool but doesn't do a 9min track. Edited out the bit where i tried to phone my wife to get the kids to bring a net.
The fish was solid especially through the shoulders (typical Rotorua brown). It looks a bit slabby in the video but was a pretty fit fish in the flesh. Beautiful colours.
No messing around to go back so hopefully not too tired and should recover well. I think I saw it again this morning in the same spot.

Beautiful.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Got that vid yet kiwijames?

Yep @Dundee

That was cool!

Cool vid. What was up with its pec??