Thread: Salmon

well I do know that 34 years ago when I first came to Timaru...at certain times of the year,smaller salmon were being caught from the wharves in town....happened in Dunedin too... doesnt happen anymore...the run of hatchery released/bred fish just isnt there anymore to be caught.
had an early fishing magazine with huge catch limits ...the ashburton river at one point has traps in it to kill off the trout for benifit of the salmon... oh how times change.Ive only caught one river run salmon and that was just below the opuha dam weir..on 5lb nylon and a yellow veltic spinner while after trout...it had got as far upstream as it could go.... the Waitaki river doesnt have the same uninterupted flow from mountains to the sea anymore. but we all like to have light and hot water at flick of switch or turn of tap...progress=change,some good some bad and some ugly.