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Still got the zeddy on my truck keys that I caught my 29 lb salmon on.
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Not very silver ne more.lols

Makarora a great river mouth for night fishing years ago.

Use to make all my own zeddys,spoons and ticers out of hex brass.Power houses use to have a lot of copper earth strapping left over to make zeddys out of.Get them plated in Timaru bottom of north...

Nice old photos Boss,thanks.

Salmon egg milk shakes.Seagulls loved them when the bucket got accidently knocked over.

In the Glenavy pub in Mervs photo cabnet diplay.Theres an old photo on me with a 13lb trout,i caught on a 6wt sage fly rod in the Tekapo river way back in the late 70s.Buitifull fish caught on a...

Yrs ago i had a scrap book with photos from news papers articals on salmon from our Southisland rivers.One photo i had was of a 57lb salmon caught in the Rakaia just below the main road bridge.Not...

November 2000 i caught my 29 pounder up the rangi about 8ks from the mouth.Day befor a guy from Rangiora caught a fish about the same size from the same pool.Buitifull fish with some power,i had to...

50 yrs ago you could walk across the salmon in the feeder stream of Glenarriff ?so many fish jammed in there.I still got some of those Salmon Association mags about somewhere,good reading.

Forty plus years ago the Rakaia salmon runs use to be up to 8000-9000 a year till the fast fishing boats use to fish the Canterbury bite in February March north of the Rakaia mouth.Only took a few...

Mid 70s down the Waitaki for xmas holidays,use to catch salmon.About February the 6th,the big runs would start coming in.Youd let 14-16pounders go,not big enough.

40 od years ago on the Waitaki river they had a fish counter.Generally now they do fly overs,over the spawning grounds n cound the reeds.

You live in a prime place there RS,10 minuts from the mouth in the evening.Big sea run trout rise on the evening tide there.

Park about 3 to 5ks up from the mouth when the river is low,120cu/scs you should find a place where they are shooting the rapids.Generally hug the south side of the river.

My wifes old uncle from way back in the 60s caught a 42 lb salmon from the Ashburton river mouth.I live to far away from the salmon rivers to be allowed to catch one salmon only.More bang for your...