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Well it's not a trout though I did get a 6lb brown which I released.
Third trip to the Canals and nothing but poxy trout so far, I have never caught a Salmon and it's the wife's favorite eating fish so I had the excuse to keep going back.
Water colour very cloudy and different canals flowing at different rates.
I have ALOT to learn yet and it's not easy going at times when nothing is happening. Anyway I got my first Salmon yesterday, not huge but a good eater.
They fight well for their size, stubborn like a brown but with heaps more go and stamina.
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Been a few days since i landed a trout but haven't stopped eating them,still a few trays of trout fillets in the freezer.
Tonight I fished the same area for an hour 100metres up and down stream and just on dark landed this hen full off eggs.
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Got one last weekend, kinda feel like im cheating fishing in the canals but still a trout! off getting cold smoked should almost be ready mmmmmm
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Yeah I used to think fishing in the canals would be like shooting fish in a barrel ( excuse the pun on a hunting forum ) . However after 3 - 4 trips there I know it's certainly not.
I was there last Friday and it was bloody hard work, I got a fish or two but saw nothing else caught.
Everyone I spoke to was getting no results.
The problem with the canals is they are so featureless being man made. It's not like you can look up the river and see a boulder or log that might hold a fish, the canals just go on forever and look the same.
I have yet to experience it when it's firing.
Nice fish @silentscope
They certaibly have their moments but i usually try something for half an hour and if no luck ill switch methods and keep doing that till something takes. Got that one on a egg glowbug under the tekapo farm nets i was the only one that got something that afternoon of about 20 fishermen i saw.
Caught a good trout tonight left the house at 1910hrs and headed home just after 2000hrs.The eels are hungry after the march floods.
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So the fly fisherman use hare and copper flys ..well I'm a spin fisherman...lol
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Well the word has got around that me Dundee is a trout fishing junky.Got sent these "Joe Flies" from the USA
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Took 7 days to get here almost faster than rural delivery:D
Gave them a spin tonight and got results!
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First brown trout on the "Joe Flies"
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These Joe Flies are bloody awesome.Trout spotting after the March floods is epic.
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Afternoons results
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Did some cliff jumping today to land this one! Still on the Joe Flie.
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https://youtu.be/3xHkWftGENg
Tried some new water earlier last week still using the "joe fly" from the states.
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Tonight I got a message from an Aussie company to trial their lures:)
Certainly got this thread covered Dundee. Wondered how you’d being..
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