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Pieter with his rainbow trout taken spin fishing on a black and gold Toby. |
Well this is just my story in short. I'm a migrant from South Africa and I've been living here in New Zealand for just over one year. I am a registered member on your site and tried just a couple of times to catch a salmon at the Waimakariri River last season, but the salmon run does not live up to the name "run" as we are used to the Sardine run back in South Africa!
My wife, my 2 girls aged 6 and 10 and I decided to go camping last weekend and enjoy the beauty and tranquility that I believe only New Zealand can offer. We drove to Lake Coleridge but were greeted with a very "angry" and strong Norwester - after this weekend I can now see what all the "fuss" is about this wind. We decided to camp at the southern side of Lake Selfe behind some bushes to try and stay out of the wind. We were the only ones there and apart from the odd car going past we did not see many people around us for the whole weekend.
I only went down to the lake side a bit later in the afternoon even though the wind was very unpleasant. After a while I gave up and went back to make dinner.
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Can you maybe identify these little fish and the probably cause of their death. If you know the answer please send an email to allan@fishingmag.co.nz |
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We saw a lot of these smaller fish washed up on the shore. Can you identify this fish and the probably cause of their death. We picked up around 15 of these little dead fish.
After a night of little sleep in a three man tent and the still gusting Norwester, I went down to the lake shore to try again at around 06h00.
After a couple of casts....fish on. It breached the water three times and I was concerned that it will spit out the lure. After a couple of exhilarating minutes I finally saw that it was a nice size rainbow trout. Being still an "amateur" in fishing for trout and salmon I did not have a landing net, waders or scale with me. I had to jump in the water and push it on to the bank. I caught it on a black and gold toby.
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Afterwards it was quite funny to see the rainbow right "over" the sport where I caught the Rainbow trout. |
"Well done Pieter. That is a great catch and a good positive fishing story from one of my all-time favourite fishing lakes. The black and gold Toby was also a very good choice of spinning lure. You are off to a great start. Welcome to New Zealand." - Allan Burgess
The surface water temperature in Lake Selfe can reach 20 deg C during January. On a cold day in high summer you can put your hand in and it feels like warm tap water.
See more about trout fishing at Lake Selfe.
