Flats fishing for trout

My mate Nik and I managed something a bit rare yesterday; having a day off to go fishing! You'd think that as a producer of NZ's top rated fishing show, Big Angry Fish, that he'd have lots of fishing time. Not so - in order to put on a programme there approx. 300 hours of editing and stuff that goes on outside of actually getting the footage.

We grabbed the show's 5m ctr console - Apple Core and headed away from our previous days' commitments (getting footage for an upcoming episode), arriving in bright sunshine at the lake we were to fish. Apple Core is fitted with a Minn Kota electric motor, perfect for getting around quietly.

Apple Core

As we got ready to launch cloud suddenly blew in - even though it stayed warm the spotting would be difficult and without sun on the water, less damselfly nymphs would move.

We put the boat in and got underway, soon arriving at the spot. Nik lowered the Minn Kota and I rigged up. We silently cruised over weed beds and as we did I put a few cats out and soon hit the first fish of the day, a neat little brownie in the 3lb class which took me straight into the weeds before I could extract him.

The next couple of hours passed with constant fish action; this style of fishing is very visual and having the silent motor made all the difference as we could approach fishy spots carefully and mostly undetected - although we still spooked a few.

Early afternoon soon came and it was time to get away home. As always it was great catching up with Nik.



A few holes in the fly box, always a sign of a good session

We're hatching a plan to get away again as soon as we can....