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To: rabidralph; Grampa Dave; shaggy eel
..... It's a shame we can't exile them all to there.

Nah.

They'd spoild Dave's fishin' trips.

Meanwhile, Dave, go to New Zealand and catch your self a few 8-10 pound Rainbow.

Every day.

New Zealand has the best trout fishing in the world, by far!


28 posted on 04/23/2002 8:41:58 PM PDT by Brian Allen
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To: Brian Allen
Three guys in our fly club went to New Zealand this past Jan/Mar.. One actually lives over there for 3 months each year from after Christmas to the end of March.

One runs a travel service for fly fishers and can go anywhere. Until the NZ trip, he preferred Chile. He took his wife, a non fisher, and stayed at some great ranches. He and his son, his partner in the travel business now prefer NZ over Chile. The slides that they showed us were incredible re the beauty of the land and the incredible fish from all types of streams. They did the helicopter thing, where the copter dropped them off and picked them up at the same spot or up/down stream from the drop off place.

The best fly fisher in our group went in March, and he loved it. However, he and I have the same problem. We have a local stream that goes to fly fishing only every Nov until the end of Apr. I have caught many 6 pounders and had three break 6# tippets this year. I will leave my house today at about 12 pm and be fishing by 1 pm.

Then, we have the Williamson River in Oregon, a 6 pound trout in July/August is common for a good fly fisher. My son had caught several in the 8-10 lb range. He had one a few years ago that turned him around 360 degrees in his Hobie Pontoon Boat (my son weighs 200 #'s of Muscle). The guide on a holiday with my son said that his eyes on the second turn had deer in the head light eyes. Then, the fish broke a 10# tippet with no snags or ledges in the pool.

So I can be into big trout for a lot less $'s than a trip to NZ. The trout in NZ are the same as here, the McCloud Rainbow, an incredible rainbow specie.

My wife is now starting to get interested, she doesn't do much fishing, but would enjoy the trip my travel friend did. The costs are great compared to Alaska and Chile.

Just about everyone who goes to NZ for the fishing loves it! Great people, great country, great fishing and incredible food and wine.

50 posted on 04/24/2002 9:51:01 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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