Cheers Ollie and Luke
02/08/2009 fishing report
I was out with my brother on the weekend as Luke was off at the Tongariro over the weekend, but we did not have the best couple of days, Fishing was realitivley slow on both the Hine and the Waitahanui.
On Saturday morning we left for the Hine in search of some good action ( which we had found over the last few weeks out there) but there was not alot to be found. The good ol' Hine was very low and very clear with very few fish around. But the first fish fell in a really nice run which always seems to hold trout. I felt that electric first head shake followed buy some silver flashes about 2 meters in front of me and then slack line.... can't land them all I guess. After making our way down with no more luck we headed north to the Nui. Once again, very slow. I manged to pull a fiesty brown out of the Pois pool lossing it at the net ( thinking what the hell is happening, paranoid that the barb on my hook was blunt or something).
We decided tp head back to HQ and do some stratigizing for the next day. We ended up heading back out that afternoon thanks to Niks little boy wanting to go and catch a 'bish' ( he means fish ), so we headed out and managed to land a little rainbow hen for the trouble ( cheers for that suggestion Ivan mate ) buy this time it was getting dark and we headed home.
We went out the next day fishing the middle and upper reaches for one fish that I managed to pull the hook on straight after hooking it.
The river had a hint of colour and was up a little and the conditions perfect for catching fish. Oh well can't win all the time.
Tight lines.
Cheers Ollie and Luke
09/08/2009 report
Hi all
(Again this week Luke is off doing much more important things like rabbit shooting or something, all the more fish for the rest of us
though)
Plenty to talk about toady as I had a really good couple of days fishing. On friday after school, yes Richard I did actually go to school instead of fish lol. I went down to the river for two hours of really good action. Only the second outing with the new rod I managed to hook 5 fish, haha, but only landing one which was a really nice brown out of the parade. I had a late start on saturday hitting the water around 9 and started at the bridge and man were there some fish around. I must have spooked at least 10 or more fish while wading up the true right of School Masters. Then more in the drum my stalking skills were shocking today. I walked up to Fence pool to see two rather large browns in the middle of that top run before it goes around the corner to Pois. After about 30 cast on from both sides of the river and then standing directly below the fish I changed fly several times from a small glow bug to naturals then ended up chucking a huge glow bug right at ones mouth and low and behold it ate it. I did not realize how big it was until I got it in the net and opened the scales and it turned out being a 7 and a half pond brown. What a rush that was. And what a pleasure to watch it swim back to its place in the pool. I meet up with Andrew, a guy who is over here from the states and this guy was a serious fisherman and a damn good one too. He pulled out his camera and showed me pictures of a 12 pound brown caught from the upper Waitahanui. Hopefully there is a few of these around for us when we go up against the Tongariro team. I ended up with two more fish that day but we saw much more than last week and this is good. The river was very low and clear but not impossible to hook trout although being a good stalker helps a lot. Sorry on Sunday I played golf.
Cheers Ollie and Luke