Hooked On Waitahanui

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4th generation angler with over 100+ years of intimate living fishing knowledge and 45 years of personal experience, fly-fishing the Waitahanui river learning from two other legendary masterful angling generations,local secrets and honoured traditions

18/06/2026

Good pulse shifted in with that westerly wind done a good job at hiding from me as well eventually tracked them down

16/06/2026

After drying overnight into the smoker they go low and slow not to hot and not to cold keeping an eye on it so they don’t get overdone the flesh rehydrates with with their fat,gave six out and my daughter and wife ate one

15/06/2026

Phase two of the preparation split and salted draws all the water out hung for another 24 hours preferably with a breeze hitting them until stiff and dry they are naturally sweet when in prime condition so no need for sugar just like how I fish it’s kept simple and basic and we have done it this way for generations

14/06/2026

Good hit during a tough phase of fishing they have been there all along just not in the usual runs pools and lies and notoriously fussy unless you know their nature and put in the effort and work to get them

14/06/2026

One of those frosty mornings where the fish are there and biting some pulses been sneaking up and hiding well in the mid reaches

08/06/2026

Don’t know if this got published but thank you Rich,Ants and their father Dave for the piece of history showing the rip close to thirty in the line up how I remember it as well as a young boy the original picket fence I think he said this pic was from the 60’s

08/06/2026

Nice fresh hard fighting fish although it’s been tough managed to land 10 during that wind my supreme fly has been productive the fish are really playing hard too get not holding in main pools but in little runs and hard to get too places especially in the mid reaches

07/06/2026

Few fish here and there and I’ve never seen it this slow before but totally up to the fish when they decide to run

02/06/2026

Big bad brown hanging out easy high double figure fish cant quite see the one ahead of it another good double half the size of that brown

30/05/2026

Bit slabby but not fully spent actually let it go which is rare for me😂 action is action though when fishing is tough virtually no one on the awa which suits me fine

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Waitahanui

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Tuesday 6am - 5pm
Wednesday 6am - 5pm
Thursday 6am - 5pm
Friday 6am - 5pm
Saturday 6am - 5pm
Sunday 6am - 5pm

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