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TROUT FISHING WITH MAURICE RODWAY - Weekly Column: 08-December-00 |
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Close To Rivers Almost every spring we have patches of cold weather. Those of us who have gathered up new wood for the next year's winter have to resort to fetching it from the woodpile, even though it could do with another summer of drying. The cold westerly wind dries and chills the beans whose tendrils have trouble clasping the trellis, so their progress towards crimson flowers and juicy green tenderness falters. So the evening is a time for trout fishing. This is especially true when the evening is warm and calm. There are many places where
evening fishing is good in Southland. All of the estuaries are home to many trout, mostly small but with a sprinkling of larger fish. Some as big as anywhere in the country. Best
fishing is with a silver lure about 5cm long. Cast this into the faster flowing water or along a bank where trout lie in the shallows. Often they give themselves away by a noisy swirl.
In the gathering dark their fear of the land is overcome by their thoughts of an evening meal. The Oreti estuary is the closest for Invercargill anglers, but those in Riverton have
the Aparima and people further inland have the evening rise to caddis flies on any part of the many rivers and streams that are never too far away.
The Upper Waiau is a wonderful caddis fly river. The abundance of these buzzy moth like flies is due to the constant flow of water from Lake Te Anau. The lake water carries tiny
food items which the caddis fly larvae catch in their underwater nets. When it is their time to hatch and fly they attract trout to the surface. Almost always this begins in the
evening. At present the Upper Waiau is low so it is an excellent time to fish the caddis rise. A rainbow in the darkness along the shores of the Waiau sharpens the value of the
evening. The upper Clutha also has a reputation for its caddis hatch. Like the Waiau this river carries a mighty flow so once hooked trout are fully in control. A fair measure of luck,
and well maintained fishing gear are necessary to ensure a trout comes to the shore. Our offices and workshops are close to rivers, no matter where we live in the South.
Those who think it is too often rainy or windy here for their liking are indeed the unlucky ones. Maurice Rodway |
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Frontier Fishing Gazette has been published |
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Introduction | Main Pool | Rules | Bliss in Te Anau | Southland Angling Bible |
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Trout Encounters | River Descriptions | Fishing in Southland | Ring-A-River | Salmon Days |
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First Publication: 29 September 1996, Updated 01-Mar-03. |
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Frontier Fishing is a South Island, NZ-based, owned and operated enterprise. |
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Occasionally however a day or two arrives when a bubble of high pressure pushes far
enough south to calm the wind. In the evening when the estuary rests, mirrored wading birds dot the shallows. In the river where trout sense the growing darkness little fish crowd the shore, knowing that
deep water brings the ultimate uncertainty to their lives.