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    Quote Originally Posted by veitnamcam View Post
    What lake?

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    Taupo i'm guessing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Taupo i'm guessing
    No salmon in Taupo.
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    Ruataniwha. Just out of Twizel. Down here for a couple of days so hope to fish the shit weather tomorrow too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Taupo i'm guessing
    No, but Taupo was my old home town. All the time I was there never caught a Rainbow that big on the lake.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwijames View Post
    No salmon in Taupo.
    Would be good it there were though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shearer View Post
    Would be good it there were though.
    Yep. They got Catfish instead
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    Best trout of the trip. 15 lb Rainbow hen. I think I spent 2 days as wet as the fish.
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    That's bloody epic!
    Well done.
    Was it good eating ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shearer View Post
    Best trout of the trip. 15 lb Rainbow hen. I think I spent 2 days as wet as the fish.
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    Primo fish @Shearer. How are you catching them. Fly?
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    Quote Originally Posted by veitnamcam View Post
    That's bloody epic!
    Well done.
    Was it good eating ?

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    Haven't had any of this one yet but judging by the other trout I have had from down there you are hard pressed to tell the difference between them and the salmon. They are in such great condition. They actually have fat along their back and belly!
    The only bad fish I have caught down there was a Sockeye that was about to spawn. A bit skinny (by comparison) and the flesh was a dirty brown/grey colour and felt mushy. It went in the bin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwijames View Post
    Primo fish @Shearer. How are you catching them. Fly?
    Basically using a soft bait outfit and a selection of soft and metal lures. Fishing from the shore. On the last day (Yesterday) I caught my limit of 4 salmon in about an hours fishing. By contrast, the first day I fished, I lost about 6 lures, dropped my phone in the lake and caught nothing.
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    Here is a photo of the Sockeye.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shearer View Post
    dropped my phone in the lake and caught nothing.
    I didn't know there was a fishing app. Obviously it isn't very good because you caught nothing but how does it work?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rushy View Post
    I didn't know there was a fishing app. Obviously it isn't very good because you caught nothing but how does it work?
    Nothing to do with a fishing app @Rushy. I just had my phone in the top pocket of my swannie and when I lent forward it fell out. Luckily I got it out of the water pretty quickly and no damage seems to be done except for the camera lens being fogged up for a couple of days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shearer View Post
    Here is a photo of the Sockeye.
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    Well....it turns out (after seeking some expert advice) that this is not a Sockeye at all, but a spawning spent Chinook. It looked so different from any of the others I had caught I had assumed it was a different species, especially considering I caught it near the mouth of the river the Sockeye spawn.
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