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went to the canals today. fished at Ohau B and C, was pretty slow overall but then we didn’t get there till about 8.30 and buy that time is was already pretty hot. Nothing caught at Ohau C cought a Few salmon around the dam wall at Ohau B but nothing huge, something interesting to note some of the Salmon we caught where already starting to colour…[Read more]

Yes im sure they where there, Lake Opuha has a quite high population of Trout. Was a easterly/southeasterly wind blowing from mid morning which seems slow the fishing down on most stillwaters/lakes.

first Time at Lake Ophua this season, Slow fishing today with only 1 rainbow around 2lb caught between 3 of us didn’t see many fish rising or any along the edges..

Yes and they taste pretty good too if properly looked after, Normally don’t get them this early in the season down here, maybe with all the floods over winter and sustained higher flows they have been attracted in by the freshwater?

Good numbers of Kahawai at The Orari river mouth today was after Searun Trout but ended up Only catching Kahawai..

Fished at Ohau C yesterday, was fishing pretty good, got a bag limit of Salmon biggest about 5lb plus one about 3lb with a full tail.. also this Rainbow Trout, didnt weight it but looked about to be in the 25-30lb range

Yes the mouth is still open to the sea.. I have some of those softbaits but not allowed to use scented baits in the Opihi during the winter season.. will be trying the Dragon softbaits in the coming season, have used them in the canals and caught salmon and they do look a lot more realistic than Gulp.

fished Opihi mouth on sunday, lots of fish splashing around with the best caught being this 4lber bit skinny but still had red flesh..

Yeah was bank to bank at one point could see logs and debris 3-4m above the normal river height. normally only flows at 4-5cu at sh1.. it peaked at 1400cu at the peak of the flood. had another look yesterday and its dirty again probably snow melt and bit of NW spillover rain in the headwaters..

had a look at the Opihi river today for the first time since the big flood 3 weeks ago. river still carrying a lot of colour but fish able, was pretty slow but still caught 1 small searun on a silver and green spoon..

normally pretty slow until august, but just before the fresh last last week it was going good in the section of river about 1km up from the mouth. most fish where small though. was using brown trout Rapala

normally pretty slow until august but just before the fresh last last week it was going good in the section of river about 1km up from the mouth but most fish where small. was using brown trout Rapala

Fished the lower Opihi today, river in good condition with no algae and good flow. but seemed devoid of fish with nothing seen or caught.. was fishing much better before the fresh/flood last week with lots of small maiden searuns around 1-2lb landed plus my mate got a big resident brown around 5lb.

fished at Ohau C yesterday still a few spent salmon around but managed a couple of good silver ones at 7lb and 3lb plus mate lost a good sized trout.

Was up at the canals yesterday lots of manky/spent salmon around. fished at Ohau C wall and could see them swimming in schools of around 15-20 fish but they where still pretty hard to catch. biggest I caught was about 10lb didn’t see many silver ones caught.

must just be the browns in average/poor condition, as I got 2 fat rainbows this morning at Opuha, both 2.5lb with red flesh. lots of browns feeding on the surface near the dam but not interested in spinners.

last time I went up to the canals I tried the savage gear softplastics They look really good in the water but haven’t caught anything on them yet. i think its just a matter of using something that the fish don’t see all the time as a guy next to me got a good sized rainbow trout on traffic light toby, with most people using shrmips and…[Read more]

went up to lake Opuha last week lake level has dropped at least 3m in the last month fishing was slow but seen some nice fish cruising taking flies but not interested in spinners. still a few skinny fish around though with the 3 browns me a mate caught all in average to poor condition.

photo below shows the how skinny the fish are that was the…[Read more]

went up to lake Opuha last week lake level has dropped at least 3m in the last month fishing was slow but seen some nice fish cruising taking flies but not interested in spinners. still a few skinny fish around though with the 3 browns me a mate caught all in average to poor condition.

seen one caught on the north side of the Opihi mouth a couple of weeks ago after the mouth blew out, looked about 10lb..