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Good vibrations!
Mon 3rd August, 2015
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  Myles and his son Adam sent me these last night. They were in town visiting a mate over in Amori and managed to get in a sneaky couple of hours on the middle river before heading back home.
" Hi Mike only had two hours fishing, but it was great… Truckloads of hook ups and about 7 landed. Adam connected with a lot of fish so he’s pretty rapt!"
The middle and upper river has been fairly consistent for weeks with the upper stretches in particular getting a lot of attention. Looking at the photographs Myles emailed me ties in with reports from other anglers that there's a mixture of fish in the river now ... which is what you'd expect at this time of year.
Its well known that fish will eat some funny things. And last time he was down Myles sent me some images of a rainbow he'd caught in the Tongariro that was stuffed with feathers!
Well this time his supper was full of seeds!
"Mike not sure if you've seen this before ... trout stomach chocka full of Kowhai seeds?!?! Interestingly, the seeds didn't digest and were still complete right down to the vent... Probably just as well because the kernel of Kowhai seeds are reputedly poisonous. This fish took an egg imitation."
It really does make you wonder. Have a read of this from an article in the February 2009 edition of Field and Stream under the heading Pop Quiz:
"Guide Lonnie Osterholm has during his career caught a lake trout on which of the following: a socket wrench, Batman action figure, or Kit-Kat bar? Give up? The answer is a Batman action figure. As the story goes, Osterholm told a client he could catch a laker on anything, so he was handed the Batman and asked to produce. They even put some cash on it. "I rigged it on a hook, dropped it to the bottom and a fish slammed it," said Osterholm. "I got it to the boat and won $1,000. Then I dropped Batman down again and the second strike was so hard it broke the line."
I know all this because Osterholm is one of a ton of guides I interviewed for a story on lures in the March issue of F&S. I asked most of these guys what the most bizarre thing they ever caught their target species on happened to be. The answers were great. Jeff Sundin once used a strip of black garbage bag to imitate a leech. A walleye nailed it. Striper guide Gene Quigley hooked into a bass on a cigarette filter, which won him a $20 bet. During a cold New Year's Day trout outing, Ernie Calandrelli tossed out a leftover cocktail shrimp from the prior night's party and bagged a fat steelhead. Though it wasn't his personal catch, guide Bobby Liedberg told me about seeing muskies caught on certain, well, uhh, "adult" toys."
I don't think it'll catch on somehow but Grant in Creel is stocking them in 6's and 8's ... inches!
Tight lines guys.
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