Early Saturday afternoon produced a nice little brown trout that took size 14 (Mustad 3666) unweighted pheasant tail nymph. This variation (as you can see on the detail photos) has legs from summer deer hair. Not that it makes any difference but one never knows. I fished one nymph about meter and a half from a tiny indicator. I was expecting to do some sight fishing therefore such a sparse setup, also I got sick of tangles that I have to put up with using 2 or 3 fly setup. Simple, fast and deadly.
Fly fishing is more enjoyable every week now that the winter is almost over and I can’t wait for hot summer days where stalking is the best.
Interestingly, I noticed after few floods gravel moved significantly and un-wadeable pools are now knee deep. River is meandering the way it used to but the water levels moved. Unpercievable change to people who look at the river from the bridges but quite a substantial change for those who fish it.
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This post was written by Karol on September 9, 2006
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Hi, my dad and I are both members of the club but primarily fish the Taupo region. We dont tend to fish the Hutt as much and would like to more often. It would be greatly appreciated if you could leave a note as to where we should be fishing on the river at present. (Riffles, pools etc.)
Cheers,
Oliver
Well this is a hard question to answer and I proved myself wrong few times already. Sorry there is no correct answer but I would recommend to start on a nice sunny day with polarising sunglasses scanning shallows close to the banks. Try to avoid wading where possible and go SLOWLY. Watch for “groves” in seemingly uniform shallows, always approach head of the pool with caution.
I don’t think a standard Tongariro technique suits Hutt river but I’m not an expert. It’s not an esoteric pursuit, it’s just experience from hours spend on the water. Write a journal, compare notes, etc… As you can probably tell, everything I write on this website is guessable standard information while the rest I’m keeping closer to my chest. It really doesn’t matter what pattern you are using, when and where you go fishing… The secret is in patience, perseverance and consequent experience. But as with everything there might be someone who knows the secret of an “instant hutt river success”. I don’t think there is any.
Oh, almost forgot, go to the library and read (and re-read, and re-read) “Stalking Trout”. Helps a lot even for moments where conditions are not right for stalking. Alternatively, fishing Wainuiomata with someone like Gordon on club’s fishing outing is even better.
sevas Karol, sľúbil som vanuzovi, že za najbližšie zarobené peniaze dojdem do Denmarku, potom sme s vanuzom uvažovali o Kube no a do tretice by to mohol byť Nový Zéland…:-)..ako sa ti darí ?… nepočuť o tebe akosi, aspoň foto pošli…Ak budeš čistou náhodou na SVK tak Ťa musím dostať na hraničný Poprad…
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