Thread: Catch Any Trout Today?

Been a while since I landed a trout. Had all these good buggers offer me new creations from softbaits,home made lures and streamers. @Pengy @Chris @the local sport shop..... I knew that wouldn't work
A fly fishing mate sent up some new streamers which I have decided to wait till the summer to use when I can site fish the browns and rainbows without losing these streamers as they are custom made and can't be purchased.



So tonight I went back to my old tackle box and wacked on a brown veltic lure as the brown beetles were out tonight and landed this nice conditioned rainbow.

Back on your game now Dundee.

The fishing been pretty hard here over the winter but hope fully will start coming right as water warms up .
As for the local sport shop ,most of there lures are made to catch anglers not fish I reckon .

This young fella caught the catch of his life in a HB river.
Six year-old lands huge brown trout | Eastern Region

Originally Posted by Dundee

This young fella caught the catch of his life in a HB river.
Six year-old lands huge brown trout | Eastern Region

Robs a bloody god guy and makes nice salamiswildgame

Sick of the bloody wind!

Anyway hunkered down and cast a few spinners in the gales tonight.



The wind was a westerly blowin off the ruahine range.Hard enough to stand up,even cast.

Landed one on the black toby and three casts later hooked another. Must of been a dumb fish or its twin.

Nice little footballs Dundee. And good to see you've gone back to the Toby consistent as all hell that one.

Looks like to be a night for not trying the fly fishing. There's a reason we call it chuck and duck with a few heavy nymphs...

This is where the deer jumped for cover last night.

Armed myself tonight with a rifle and rod.

And the river was mint.

Someone got lucky

Caught a few with the broker in Taupo.
Best catch of the day was a foul hooked guppy

Mine and his

One of our boys and two mates are camping at the river for 7 days. Well the first two days were windy with NE drizzle and a phone call tonight from a mum. So I had to go and check aye. Two days and wants her boy back

They were all good on day two.



I crept through the long grass on the aproach to their campsite and yelled 'FISH & GAME OFFICER,Licences please!' fuck they shit themselves but I knew they were all licenced.


I hit the river and first cast hooked and landed a small rainbow using a monkey fly which is the closest replica of a cicada.


Looks messy but the trout recovered after asking the lads if they want breakfast and they weren't starving so it was released.

Originally Posted by Dundee

One of our boys and two mates are camping at the river for 7 days. Well the first two days were windy with NE drizzle and a phone call tonight from a mum. So I had to go and check aye. Two days and wants her boy back

They were all good on day two.

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I crept through the long grass on the aproach to their campsite and yelled 'FISH & GAME OFFICER,Licences please!' fuck they shit themselves but I knew they were all licenced.


I hit the river and first cast hooked and landed a small rainbow using a monkey fly which is the closest replica of a cicada.
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Looks messy but the trout recovered after asking the lads if they want breakfast and they weren't starving so it was released.

those dunes look pretty good for pheasant shooting...

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

those dunes look pretty good for pheasant shooting...

A mate flushed two Roosters at Oringi the other day which is about 15km down stream but haven't seen any up here.

Originally Posted by Dundee

One of our boys and two mates are camping at the river for 7 days. Well the first two days were windy with NE drizzle and a phone call tonight from a mum. So I had to go and check aye. Two days and wants her boy back

They were all good on day two.

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I crept through the long grass on the aproach to their campsite and yelled 'FISH & GAME OFFICER,Licences please!' fuck they shit themselves but I knew they were all licenced.


I hit the river and first cast hooked and landed a small rainbow using a monkey fly which is the closest replica of a cicada.
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Looks messy but the trout recovered after asking the lads if they want breakfast and they weren't starving so it was released.

You might as well have thown that fish in the bushes as it has about zero chance of survival. All the sand and dirt will remove any protection and it will die of infection or shock.
Not a dig. Just what I have learnt.

Nice six pounder jigging on Rotoiti this morn , fish were rising like a kahwai boil up !!! Stunning morning