Some NZ fish and scenery
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Hi Tim
Absolutely spot on.
The canals produce rainbows, some browns and the odd escaped salmon for those who use bait etc and are prepared to sit it out.
the odd one does get caught on the fly and one of my friends has developed a method where he landed several pigs last year but…..its not quite the most attractive environment to fish and they do look a little obscene.
The canals can be fun in summer though, you can ride your bike or drive!! 😮 along the canals looking on the edges for rising fish and away you go. Heaps more attractive water nearby though!Just a last blast on the eels, some people would say they are nearing endangered levels in NZ through habitat loss and overfishing (sound familiar?
Carter, you’ll have to join the southern migration. Tim’s really putting a damper on travel plans for next year with his educational aspirations, so we’re still in the planning stage – and will be for some time.
Winter (Kiwi Summer) 2010.
Be there.
Awesome photos again Simon.
I won’t be around to follow along, but I’m sure everyone would love to see photos from the Taupo winter fishery. I got to see the tail end of the run when I fished the Tongariro and Tauranga Taupo. I can’t imagine what it’s like during the height of the run.
I’m sure Tim could budget those, but we’re going sans helicopters.
Here’s a few more, not as impressive as Simon’s though.
Side note: Pink polarized sunglasses from a gas station are not equivalent to Maui Jim rose lenses. Trust me.
One more eel photo.
Hi all,
This is my first post. Simon pointed me in the direction of this thread so I thought I would contribute some more NZ images. I have been visting the site for a while now and really enjoy the photographic section. Have learnt alot from you guys so thanks. Anyway some more NZ dreams. I am based in the UK now and can’t wait to get back there. By the way great fish Ian.
Some fish
A silver trevally. These guys feed iin massive surface shoals on tiny krill. Fussy, tough and when you fool one fight like your typical trevally
A typical NZ brown. Beautiful wild fish
Yellowtail king. The meanest fish in the ocean
The hike in
Spring Creek
A cowboy in the backcountry
cheers
Matkeep it coming, ya’ll.
Choppers, dubs, bikes, hitchiking, vespas, however you want to roll; unless I’m in jail I see myself with nothing better to do.
Nope but you are very close Tim! ::) ::) :-X
No more asking and I will take you there! 😉 ;D 😉
We are not really that secretive…..all the time.. ;D ;D ;D..but half the fun will be spinning you round, blindfolding ya and taking you.
Have a look on the otherside of the main river
Hi Guys, First time here – looks like a great site. I’m an Aussie.
Just wanted to add to this NZed thread but should point there’s a lot of competition between Aussies and Kiwis, we’re like brothers who can go pretty hard at each other but when push comes to shove we’ve also died for each other. This rivalry sometimes gets warmed by what we call “sledging” – taking the piss in another’s language so don’t be dismayed by some of the exchanges.
I had a great time on the South Island this year and really enjoyed fishing with a bunch of guys, great guys including Simon and Matt (but whatever you do don’t let them blindfold you) – it was a “mouse” year when a brazillion mice hatch in the beech forests and migrate, of course they have to cross rivers and lakes and the fish eat them and grow very big. It happens every 7 years or so. We fished for them on lake Monowai which is surrounded by beech forest and we caught some big fish (thats bug fush in the local dialect). The eel stories here reminded me of this – we fished on into dark and I was in a floatboat. Eels also like mice. When I returned to the big boat they shined a torch onto me and there was half a dozen BIG eels swimming around my legs – I didn’t know they were there and nearly shat myself. Only the night before I’d been telling the guys the story of the homopsychosadistic notoriously murderous gangster Kray brothers and their favourite form of torture, which invloved live eels. I got out of the boat pretty quickly.
We had some sensational fishing on the Waiau, a big river full of big rainbows. Simon and I floatboated it one day, drifting about 5 miles of it and had an incredible time getting to rarely fished stretches of water and the ‘bows were stacked up everywhere we went. We went back there the next day to drift it again and at the boat ramp met a guy who said “There’s fook all fish in here, they’re all small and poorly conditioned anyway. That shot of the rainbow Simon’s holding was from the day before and we were stunned by this guys attitude. Simon went and fished right where this guy had been and hooked and landed a beautiful fish. I’ll run a string of images from my trip with a few brief captions.
Morsie
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