Frustrating Fishing & Making a Big Splash!
Mark and I went to Te Anau as planned but chose the wrong river to fish for 3 reasons.
1. We fished Saturday and Sunday, The busiest days on any river. On Saturday we were too late to the river to get the best water even though Mark left Dunedin at 5am! On Sunday we were too late to the river because we drank too many pints in the Redcliff on Saturday night.. I think I had some whisky too… Bad idea!
2. The fish in the part of the river we fished hadn’t settled back into their normal routine after a flood a week or so ago. They seemed non existent but I’m pretty sure they were there. To compound it, sighting conditions were terrible on Sunday.
3. The Norwester.
We still managed a few fish but it was a frustrating weekend fishing.
More soon!
Ronan..
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- A great start. This fish came blind from a side brade, obviously missed by the anglers we caught up to a short time later. We then left to find new water.
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- Rods under the wipers and off to a new spot..
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- Heading down river to fish back to the truck..
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- First Rainbow of NZ 2011..
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- I could see one but I didn’t catch it!
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- My only fish of day 2.. Mark also had one but it jumped back in before the 10 second timer fired!!
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- Always respect your truck!
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- A 4×4 is a useful piece of kit in NZ!
