Thread: Productive Flies - At the moment

She was probably a wild hen

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

you must have been a hungry jack......

If she is ever over this way I could spend a bit of time with Her. The fly fishing is starting to happen as the trout move in to spawn.

Originally Posted by Gapped axe

If she is ever over this way I could spend a bit of time with Her. The fly fishing is starting to happen as the trout move in to spawn.

Cheers will let her know, you probably know each other from the Maketu days

Had 20mm of rain overnight and was still pissing down at 11am when I hit the rising waters.Only sighted three trout and had a good brown hit this articulated streamer snapping the front hook off as it lept out of the water.


I fished till 1300hrs then had to bail as the water was rising,lost two streamers today but least the rod isn't smashed again yet.

Gave the softbaits a swim and a few lures and was ready for the rise with the streamers but the river rose instead. Heaps of insects out there hitting the windows so next time the river is fishable will give these flys (streamers) another flick.

That is a lot of tying right there Dundee.

One fly I used to tie and if I were to get back into fly tying and I would tie a batch of them is a version of the variegated wooly bugger with green crystal flash under the tail and a tungsten bead head it was a really successful fly for me especially in the awahou stream mouth, I used to twist the hackle into the chenile before wrapping it onto the hook I had a whole tackle box full of those flies until i had some fly fishermen line up at my car wanting to buy those flies from me as the ones they had on that day were doing stuff all and mine just kept catching them, so I buggered off with some cash in my pocket and an empty tackle box

That fly box of mine was looking close too empty tonight,the river has stolen them

Originally Posted by Dundee

That fly box of mine was looking close too empty tonight,the river has stolen them

Borrow a mask and snorkel from Stingray and go look for them Dundee. Ha ha ha ha your kids could sell tickets as the thought of you arse up in the river looking for hooks is quite entertaining. I am sure the neighbours would pay to watch that.

A good fisherman buddy has just sent me some streamers,some are articulated. They look totally different when wet. The river here is still high and slightly discoloured. Now would be a good time to give them a swim.

Well get yourself down there Dundee.