{"id":15115,"date":"2023-01-21T13:54:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T11:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/?p=15115"},"modified":"2023-01-21T13:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T11:57:47","slug":"too-dam-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/21\/too-dam-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Dam Hot!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The season is hurtling along! Here we are in January already. This can certainly be the hardest month of the regular trout season. Rivers get low and warm. Trout can get extra spooky and sometimes stop feeding in the afternoons. It’s very important to know which rivers to avoid so as to prevent undue stress on trout. Catching a trout in a warm river can easily kill it. With the farmers draining all but the last drop out of the local river it’s basically unfishable due to warming. It’s likely to stay that way for at least a few more weeks, maybe months. I have to turn my attention to cooler rivers and lakes. We need rain to top up and cool down the rivers but there’s none in the forecast. I have a very busy time coming up with some regular clients and I have formulated a good plan – I hope!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a positive note, the fishing has been very good so far this season. Happy clients and I’ve managed to get out myself a few times. I had a day out on a dam recently with a morning of fishing to rival just about any dry fly fishing I’ve had. Green beetles on the water and trout feeding on them. Not sight fishing, fishing to rises – even better! Spending so much time guiding on the rivers has made me love the lakes even more. That’s what I want on my days off right now and this day really delivered. Engrossing fishing – moving quickly to intercept fish with fast, accurate casts. At least, that was the objective! Putting a fly in front of a tracking trout is so exhilarating – will he take it?? These’s nothing else going through my mind as that fish is hopefully continuing to track towards my fly. I can’t see him. The cast is based on where he’s most likely to be heading based on the previous rise or rises. To see that head come out of the dark water and confidently take my dry… just magic. 5 out of 6 fish that morning took me well into my backing. I play fish hard and I generally only see my backing once or maybe twice a season so this was just unreal. A breeze got up in the afternoon and the rises almost stopped. I wanted to go and check out a bay I like in the wind. I tried to drive there but ended up getting bogged. It was quite an ordeal to get it unstuck but thanks to Don from Wanaka we got it out. Probably took 5 hours all up! Still a great day. I went back for a day since and parts of the lake were very warm. Guy and I found decent fishing in cooler bays but the number of rising trout compared to the number of flies on the surface told me that most fish were already retreating to the deep. It’s too dam hot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve got another 7 patterns available with Fulling Mill. This makes the range of flies a pretty comprehensive one for NZ. They’ll cover you for just about anything you’re likely to encounter. With willow grubs in full swing on southern rivers and cicadas winding up, there’s a couple of reasons to check out the new patterns. You can see them all here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photos below are from December so I’ll have to get another blog out soon to catch up on the more recent stuff. I’m trying not to overload my blog with pictures!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still some gaps in April and plenty next season. You can contact me ronan@exyloops.com<\/em><\/strong> or visit my website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tight lines.. Ronan..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great day out with David and Sabrina..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They both landed a few solid fish..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sabrina on the last cast of the day!
Icing on the cake..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Time and his brother for a few days..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Good craic as always!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wilderness..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cracking fish for Graeme.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tim has one in his sights..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A beauty. Tim is a big fan of the HT series.
I Think he has them all!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lovely water..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pretty trout..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Graeme with his fan club.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bro’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back to Davids place for food, drink, and craic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back to business..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Graeme releases a nice brown..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This for took Tim way into his backing.
Incredibly fast and powerful trout.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another beauty for Graeme in the last 100m. The last cast!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Out myself for a day..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Magnificent fishing..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Most beautiful.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A fat 5lber on McPhails Blowfly from Fulling Mill.
A great general terrestrial pattern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beetles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I adore this place..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another great trout. Spectacular dry fly action.. and a great day out.. until..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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..bogged.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I walked a few ks to get help after 2 hours trying to unbog my truck..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No better machine to pull me out..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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High lift jack to get me out of the ruts first..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We drove out together.. Big thanks to Don Lousley for his help!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great couple of days with these 2! Plenty trout to just under 7lbs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Almost 7lbs of magnificent brown trout on my new Straggle Nymph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Christmas dinner starter. Cold smoked trout and trout ceviche.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Out for a fish myself..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trusty Claret doing the business.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Checking out some new water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Broke my rod in 2 places.
This streamside repair sort of worked.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spiky fecker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A day afloat with Guy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The lake is warming up fast..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We had okay fishing in cooler bays.
This was my first fish on the HT7 – love it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Guy – and a trout for dinner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First on a bugger then a few on dries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Guy with a lovely fish on my Kiwi Dun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Serpent rock. A hull buster!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great day out..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heading back home through the minefield.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The season is hurtling along! Here we are in January already. This can certainly be the hardest month of the regular trout season. Rivers get low and warm. Trout can get extra spooky and sometimes stop feeding in the afternoons. It’s very important to know which rivers to avoid so as to prevent undue stress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[596,1319,376,375,1318,1162,851,1317],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15169,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115\/revisions\/15169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}