NZ Fly Fishing Expeditions - late season Brown trout
I’ve been busy shooting ducks over the last week and have a bit of success so the freezer is filling up slowly. We are having a wild game dinner with some friends in the weekend and on the menu is Mallard duck, Paradise duck, rabbit back steaks, hare back steaks, paua, trout and blue cod so it should be quite the feast.
I had a friend fishing on backcountry river “X” yesterday in bewteen the nasty cold wintery fronts that are blasting us at the moment. He had some good fishing with a bunch of brown trout to the nbank between 2 -4 lbs in size and finished the day with a nice 9lb brown trout. There has certainly been a good run of brown trout going up these systems in preparation for spawning so there is some very good May fishing to be had.
The stream mouths have also been offering some good sport with both brown and rainbow trout waiting off the lips and some quinnet salmon also being reported.
If there is a break in the weather next week I am going to pop around to some of the streams in the Te Anau area that stay open until the end of the month that are also fishing well with brown trout running.
NZ Fly Fishing Expeditions - fish on
I can’t tell you how much I appreciated everything you did to make my fishing trip unforgettable. That trophy brown was totally unbelievable! Frankly, I’m surprised we were able to land him. That was one of the longest fights I’ve ever had with a fish. Fighting that trout and the river current was a whole new experience for me. Your advice and help were invaluable. I will definitely call you the next time I get to New Zealand. And I really enjoyed your website article and photo. Thanks again for putting me in position to catch the fish of a lifetime. And it was almost a few fish of a lifetime. All in all…brilliant!!!
