October
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Season opens for back country streams. Fish are at their least wary as they have had no angling pressure for 5 months. A weighted nymph generally does the trick. Water and weather is still cool. |
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November
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Temperatures are warmer and fish are mainly caught on the nymph but opportunities with the dry fly do regularly occur. |
December
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Warm temperatures and surface feeding begins in earnest. Dry flies or dry fly/nymph combination are the norm. From Christmas onwards the annual NZ summer vacation is in full swing. Readily accessible streams can be under angling pressure. |
January
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Warm temperatures - surface feeding in full swing. Holiday makers at their most prolific. |
February
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Hot. Waters are low. Trout are wary but when surface feeding are suckers for a well presented dry fly. The NZ holiday makers have gone back to work. |
March
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Temperatures cool off. Holiday makers are not common. Trout take nymphs and dries. Often very good dry fly fishing up to end of the month. |
April
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Cool. Mainly nymphing but I've had some wonderful dry fly fishing on small streams during this month. |
May- September
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Our winter months, cold temperatures. Many of the back country rivers close to allow the fish to spawn in peace. My guided fly fishing is confined to the Lake Taupo river system for river running rainbows. The fishing is very similar to Western USA steelhead fishing - big fighting fish caught on nymphs and wet flies. |
The Taupo winter fishing is very popular with NZ and Australian anglers and in the early part of this century really put NZ trout fishing on the world map.
