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You could be right. From memory the salmon smolt I saw released were quite small, 2 inches in length. All were about that size give or take

Oh it was the "lucky lure" for sure! :D

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Yes or white or fluorescent orange or green although the last one I caught last year was on an American Import :D

I would suspect from what I saw on hatchery "open days" when I was a kid, any hand male fish got mixed with any handy female fish! That was about the extent of any genetic "selection"

Lived at Rangiata Huts on North Side 1991-1993. The fish runs were starting to lessen by then.
Last Salmon I caught in 2000 just before moving to Nelson was 28lb just below the Main road bridge....

Originally were wild fish and thru 70s/80s ish supplemented by Acclimatisation Society (Now F&G) stripping eggs from wild fish and hatching them / returning smolt to rivers.

Biggest issue with Ashburton, Rangitata and Rakaia is the loss of water compared to earlier times. Also for many years young fish ended up on paddocks due to poorly designed/function fish screens on...

Well fish and game used to run a salmon hatachery at Glenarrife and release salmon every year. Does not happen now i believe.
Water is extracted for a multitude of uses leaving rangitata, rakaia and...

Yeah only allowed one per day and total of 2 for season. Total farce as thats really the only answer "a learned organisation" can think of!

Not as far as I know. Salmon fishing has deteriated largely thru loss of water taken for "other things". I remember watching my Grandad catch Salmon in the Ashburton river, now its just a poluted...

I will be Jan/Feb in the Rakaia.
Hopefully I will be as successful as last time!
:)