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TROUT FISHING WITH MAURICE RODWAY - Weekly Column: 21-January-00 |
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Away from Home and a Millennium Record There are several guide books available now and these provide information on waters throughout the country. Fish and Game Councils also have access
information more freely available. Every angler should have obtained a regulation and access guide with their licence and this is useful when you are on unfamiliar ground. While the Southern lakes are only 2 to 4 hours drive away
for most of us they are still not that frequently fished. In the holidays Invercargill and Dunedin anglers travel to them in large numbers. Most use boats and troll large lures for trout out in the depths of the lake. Some try the
margins where trout come in to feed, especially in the evening and morning. An off shore breeze helps casting and can often blow beetles and caddis flies out onto the lake margins. If this happens fishing can be productive. Fishing
these areas in the heat of the day, especially if there is little wind is not usually rewarding. The lake shore of Hawea produced something of a record that I have not heard the better of yet. A trout was caught at 10.30 pm on
the night of the 31 December, and another at 6.30 am on the morning of the first, by the same angler! Not big trout mind, but perhaps the last of the old century and the first of the new. Beyond Lakes Hawea and Wanaka lies the
West Coast. A place where there must still be a thousand barely touched trout streams and unknown numbers of unfrightened trout. The coast has a large number of rivers, many of them are larger than any we have in Southland. While
some of these are too big and flood-prone to be good trout streams there are many that hold trout and where anglers have rarely trod. By contrast the streams of Nelson and Marlborough are more accessible and the trout in them
more wary. I returned to the place of my trout fishing apprenticeship, the lower Wairau, and found the narrow track to the river now a sealed road. Where we once shot rabbits and caught eels from amongst the log jams there is now a
sign prohibiting shooting and a gravel crushing plant. Such "progress" hasn't reached the West Coast yet. The road down the east coast crosses some smaller streams and several large rivers too, each holding some promise of trout
or salmon fishing. A trip away from home shows there is a world of promising fishing beyond the back door. Alas, we cannot be on holiday all the time. 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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