Canels

Canals are pretty quite at the mo fished most of last night & today for 1 trout around 4 lb quite windy 2 truck is rocking .

look forward to seeing some Canal fish on here.

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Ruff out though

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fuk that's a conditioned fish

How heavy?

and fuk you've got big feet

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Originally Posted by Shootm

How heavy?

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Been here for a few days finally paid off...At a guess 15-20 pound

Nice fish 🖒hopefully get down there one day

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What a beauty!!:thumbsup:

That looks freakishly fat!
What is the main source of food in the canals?

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

That looks freakishly fat!
What is the main source of food in the canals?

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Salmon pellets and salmon smolt (from the salmon farms).

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Originally Posted by kiwijames

Salmon pellets and salmon smolt (from the salmon farms).

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Ah I didn't know there was farms in them.....just thought they were for farm irrigation.

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Originally Posted by Dundee

What a beauty!!:thumbsup:

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Looks like the ones you catch down the back of the farm:thumbsup:

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Been here for a few days finally paid off...At a guess 15-20 pound

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What lure/fly were you using?
When I was down there a pink glow bug with a red spot was all they would take, and I didn't have one.

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Looks like the ones you catch down the back of the farm:thumbsup:

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Some of the bigger ones may require more than a rod .... lol
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That looks freakishly fat!
What is the main source of food in the canals?

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Good question some massive fish jumping but try & catch them usually most commen bait is prawns or shrimp ...there cooked so work that one out or lures anything silver,pink or red but that said soft baits are getting popular as well...been pretty quite on the fish front not many cought but they are there.
Also surprisingly there are good shoals of whaitbait going past & cockabullys so there is natural bait for them

Are all those campervans fishos or tourists?

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Originally Posted by Dundee

Are all those campervans fishos or tourists?

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Fishos Dundee . Normally more than that there .

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Ah I didn't know there was farms in them.....just thought they were for farm irrigation.

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Bloody hell it looks like that one swallowed a rugby ball also!

My sister with a couple of good ones, salmon was over 30lb...
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It's on my bucket list!

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wow she's a happy lady .:XD: love cold smoked salmon on buttered snax biscuits . last one i got done was 8lb , 10 of us ate it all as an entree one duckshooting.:drool::drool::drool:

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Yeap, both were released as with most of her fish. Some might say the canals are "like shooting fish in a barrel" but she set out with a goal to get a 30lb salmon and a decent rainbow and brown and it's taken her a fair while to build up the knowledge and time on the water to make it happen.
She now works for high country salmon on one of the farms so an intricate knowledge of the biology within the canals has probay helped her fishing heaps, pretty proud of her I reckon she should guide but doesn't have the confidence