Winter is definitely on it's way now. Although the mornings haven't hit the single digits yet, the days have lost a great deal of their warmth along with the hour we lost after daylight savings ended. I miss not having enough bloody time to go fishing after work!
Anyway, with the change in temperatures, a few different methods of catching our trout in particular will start coming to the fore. Dry flies will generally spend their days locked up next to the rest of their kind, wishing it was warm again like a lot of us. Their strike indicating prowess will be replaced with synthetic indicators which will be able to stay afloat with more weight dragging them down. This point leads to the nymphs.
Heavier nymphs will appear once more as the depths of larger rivers are plumbed with a myriad of bright heads in often coloured water.
Another fantastic technique is targeting them with streamer flies. Cam and I were on the Tongariro river yesterday swinging some wet flies with fairly good results! You can generally cover a lot more water and fish it more thoroughly. Best success was on darker olive woolly buggers fished on relatively long leders on the end of fast sinking poly leaders. Seemed to work for us but there are certainly no rules to catching fish!
So best of luck for the coming cold months. Air out the warm gears and man up (or woman up) and brave the cold wet days for the shot at some brilliant fishing!
Just to leave you on a totally unrelated subject (still have to put the footage together from yesterday) here is a great little clip to get you thinking. It is based in the States but we can certainly relate this to ourselves here in New Zealand. Our waterways are precious and you just don't mess with nature man!
DamNation | Trailer from FELT SOUL MEDIA on Vimeo.
So give it a watch, and even some of their other cool stuff as well, and let us know what you think. Cheers Felt Soul Media!
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