I usually make up a batter and deep fry (yummy) one of my favourite fish.
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I usually make up a batter and deep fry (yummy) one of my favourite fish.
Yeah I think you need a decent surf caster to get way out to catch them. I went back up river on the Waitaki again this morning and thrashed a really nice piece of water for a few hours but came up empty again :oh noes:
It was a beautiful morning to be out on the river though :thumbsup:
Heading out in the morning for my last crack at the salmon for the season, Here's hoping. Has anyone else got one yet?
Going to have a go tomorrow.
Mate has had 2. Both around 6lbs.
I seen a fish of around 8 pound caught a week ago.
Smaller again this year on the coast for some reason.
Went to my good spot on the Hoki before the weather hit and the hole was all current. Nowhere for them to sit. Perfect colour but I am assuming rock work further up river diverted more water down thru the hole.
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Sounds good @R93 I hope you get one, I have 2 mates coming with me in my boat tomorrow so I hope one of us gets one. I will let you know how I get on. Good luck and fingers crossed.
No luck for me today, the other guys got a trout each but the river was up and a bit milky. Never mind there's always next year :oh noes:
I have a wee theory about Waitaki Salmon. They used to spawn in pretty big numbers in the side streams. I suspect over the years they moved down from the Haka and a good portion spawned lower down. You certainly used to see a heap spawning. Now the Dairy farmers have cut almost all of those backwaters off. There is only a thin marginal strip of willows. I also think the run has got later, like well after the season. I say this because I know one stable piece of forgotten backwater and come late may, it will look like a stream in Alaska.
You could be right about them running later, they have only just started showing up over the last week or so and the weather pattern has changed so it is warmer for longer so agree they could be coming up later. Also the season used to go until the end of April but now its the end of March.