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« on: September 17, 2007, 07:57:40 pm » |
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any tips on what fies to use in the waitahanui rip?
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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2007, 07:59:09 pm » |
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i mean what flies
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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2007, 07:33:58 pm » |
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i thought id let some locals answer this but my 2 would be taupo tigers and rabbits. p.s this is for SMALL STREAM rips as ive never been a big fan of crowds but it should work in some of the bigger more popular ones aswell
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« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2007, 07:15:38 pm » |
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I have never tried using tigers , rabbits . Do you catch many fish on these flies???
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« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2007, 07:30:03 am » |
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Hey hooked on Fishing,
Yeah it is a good idea to have a red, green and orange rabbit in your box over winter and a yellow one for summer conditions. The yellow Bodied Taupo Tiger can be a good fly over summer as well. Green and brown woolly Buggers account for a heap of fish both over summer and winter and you want these in different sizes. Booby flies are excellent, I have a few friends who swear by these, over summer last year I used a white booby with a pink tail to good effect. I guess the fly to use though especially over winter would have to be the Heave and leave. Love em or hate em they catch fish and that is what you are standing there for! sometimes I go out there and go through my fly box to no avail and come home skunked, other times I hit it right and get onto a fly that apeals to them and have a blast, the main thing for you is to have a few options in your fly box.
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« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2007, 07:25:34 am » |
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yeah thanks for the tips catch and release. I have been using champagne pink dot glow bugs with a shooting head and i have been nailing a few good jacks on these flies. LAst season i was using olive green woolly buggers with a intermediate line and i caught a whole heap of fish ( including an 8lb jack) so i always carry these in my fly box.
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« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2007, 07:27:24 pm » |
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Whoa what a topic. Could go on forever about flies to use on the Waitahanui rip so will start with at the beginning and that's about 30 years ago. Used to use orange rabbits (2) during the day and if they didn't work red setters. At night black/red fuzzy wuzzie's (2). Approx 1 foot between flies, intermediate line and 6 foot trace. These flies came highly reccomended by better aglers than me, the Wall's, My namesake Mr Hintz etc. They still work today!
Started using black booby's about 10 years ago with some glow wrapped around the body, based on a pattern used by a previous lodge manager. Still working today. Pink ones seem to work well at change of light.
Another little trick during the day is to tie a std champagne and orange glow bug about a foot behind whatever you want to use ie wooly bugger, silicon smelt... Don't just leave it out there, knit it in just like a normal wet. Dynamite.
That will do for starters.
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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2007, 07:23:25 pm » |
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gidday callum here..just saying thanks to shane..seen him on the top of the waitahanui and pointed me to gordan williams with a few fish in there..fishing was a little on the hard side but..yeah..went up to there an got on to the fish right away..all good fresh fish an all taken on naturals..cheers..
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« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2007, 07:22:01 am » |
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my other trip. i wasbridge by some people claiming we werent allowed to fish there 'coz there uncle said so. then they started to throw rocks at us but scene as they were about it we told them to f*&% off and they ran in the waitahanui for the first day, picked up 4 PIDDLERS im the straight along with 1 in a pool that was unknown to me. next day, believe it or not, m.e and my mate got harassed just above the 2nd away calling us white c&*#$ on the way.on that day on the waitahanui i picked up one from just below the 2nd bridge and one in cliff, a ripper that smoked me in pig pool. today me and my mate went to TT when a fresh run went through at about 1 pm when we headed back. BTW shane a DOC officer that you met on the hine today is gonna have u on about hooking yourself. had a quick fish and my mate picked up a small freshie of about 3 pound (released) but the guys we met on the way dwn seemed 2 have a ball
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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2007, 07:33:14 am » |
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Hey Cullem,
No problems on the tip off. Excellent result, there looked to be a few big fish in there as well. Cullem you are on the Waitahanui quite a lot and certainly this school holidays you were out. Have you as a teenager ever been abused by other kids on the river. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't do it to me, although I don't generally tell them to #$%@ off either!
Cheers Cullem and see ya out there.
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« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2007, 07:39:20 am » |
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mate you would if they threw a rock the size of a baby at your mates head. bad decision on my part though, coz they had more rocks. good thing they were a bad aim. they said their uncle says so, who i guess lives at the place with the dogs
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« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2007, 07:03:11 pm » |
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The kinloch fishing contest which I wanted to enter but it was full anyway so I am asking this for next year you aren't alouded to fish in the rivers for the contest but I was wondering if you are aloud to fish the rips because are they classed as part of the river or lake?
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