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Johnno 
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Posted on: Oct. 20 2005,23:18 |
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SO: What are they? ? Not that I ever would, but if limited to 5 of each:
Dries:
- Greenwells Wulff
- SQB (Small quilled brown) Parachute
- Mohawk
- CDC and Elk (best dry EVER!!)
- The Fly (Blowfly pattern)
Wets:
- Grouse and Purple
- Partridge and Orange
- Mulloch's favourite
- March Brown
- Love's Lure
Nymphs
- Sawyer's PTN
- Sawyer's Grey Goose
- Hare and Copper
- MYG (My Green Stonefly)
- Horned Caddis
Streamers
- Woolly Bugger
- Orange bodied (or green bodied) rabbit Matuku
- Olive and Black BUB Fly
- West Coast WB
- John's Bully (my own natty wee bully)
Could be a few others added, but if limited to a top 20, these would be the ones I have the most confidence in.
and You??
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CDCNZ
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2005,00:33 |
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Don't know if I would call them favourites but more what I fall back on when the flavour of the moment fails
Dries would have to be: Dads Favourite, spent spinner, cdcemerger, N.Z black gnat and para adams
Wet flies; Purple Grouse, red butt black gnat, march brown, turkey tail and starling and the black and peacock
Nymphs: American pheasant tail, hare and copper, halfback and variations of the H&C that I tie so no real name for them.
Streamers: None.....yet
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Steve
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2005,12:58 |
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emm,
Dries;
-Black Gnat
-Dads Favourite
-Dads Favourite Para
-Adams Para
-Royal Wolf for rainbows and as an indicator fly
Nymphs;
-H & C in black, gold and copper, standard and tungsten BH
-Hare & Pheasant black tungsten BH
-Hares Ear black tungsten Bh
-willow grub
-Caddis pupa
The first 3 nymphs are pretty similar, recently I've found black tungsten nymphs accounting for loads of fish, I'm sure it's the lack of flash and the sinking ability. Getting small nymphs down in front of the fish does the trick.
Hard to go past a Black Gnat in this region, it deals to a lot of fish, and the Dads favourite is so reliable
I don't use wets or streamers....but I'm thinking some little wets used on a double nymph rig might be interesting.
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Johnno
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Posted on: Oct. 30 2005,01:15 |
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Steve,
I used to only now and again use streamers across and down, but last season and this, I have started to use use a streamer more often and more actively than across and down. I'll strip - pause across stream and up stream as well and also use them in even smaller rivers like the Riwaka and Rai. A full sinking line or a detachable sink tip seems to work best rather than a full floating although in the smaller stuff I stick to floating.
Made a committment to myself to use streamers more and the results thus far have been very pleasantly surprising. Usually a #6 or maybe #8 olive or black Woolly Bugger although trying out a few others like a version of the Kiwi Muddler and a version of an American pattern, the Zoo Cougar. Got a lot to learn but getting the hang of it I think.
The other day, two of three trout from the Upper Wangapeka were on streamers. One was 5 lbs and the other a little bigger. One was stalked and the other caught prospecting across a shadowed pool. Even on low clear pressured waters, they work and work well.
(A good book available via fishpond.co.nz is "Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout" by Linsenman and Galloup.)
Wets fished up, across, and down and across during an evening caddis hatch are well worth the effort: Partridge and Orange, Grouse and Purple are notable fish catchers.
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"I never understood the appeal of flyfishing Jim. It's too much like masturbation for me, without the payoff".
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Chris Dore
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Posted on: Nov. 26 2005,10:54 |
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Hi guys, I have been playing with a few of stu tripneys foam creations the past few days, and am fast converting to his foamback emerger. A nice wee fly on a curved hook, which worked a treat on the mataura last evening. Cannot wait for a chance to try out his backswimmer and quiver bug
however these are based on last seasons results
dries
1 deer hair emerger
2 para dun (with cdc hackle, tied parachute style)
3 blowfly humphy
4 carty's GT
5 traditional adams
nymphs
1 hares ear variation
2 audio caddis
3 aoteapsyche caddis
4 spanfles mayfly (basically a phesant tail tied using black and brown spanflex for durability)
5 black and peacock
streamers
black woolly bugger was all I used in this category, and is my first choice fly for when things are coloured.
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scottrods
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Posted on: Jan. 01 2006,11:56 |
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Since I have only a limited experience of fishing in NZ so far I've caught on:
- Love's lure
- Claret and mallard Bumble (Irish pattern wet)
- green buzzer with feather breathers
- PTN
- spent spinner
- lumo flies
- craig's night-time
I would like to try a few more places and a few more flies, but since I'm usually on my own it's not easy.
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Posted on: Feb. 09 2006,13:43 |
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Johnno,
I have recently taken to nymphing upstream in the normal way, then returning back downstream with a sinking line and a small (10 or 12) woolly bugger - olive or brown, fishing only the choisest bits of water. I have had some great results, admittedly mostly for rainbows. Often more successful than the nymph early in the season.
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