Time to put up or shut up: Ken....need photos of NZ Fish

[El Presidente]

Time to put up or shut up: Ken....need photos of NZ Fish

No excuses mate. Show us the photo's of last weeks NZ fishing trip ;-)

[mkz]

Perhaps the Possum ate the pictures... ;-)

[BigSlick]

» Perhaps the Possum ate the pictures... ;-)

Perhaps Ken ate the Possum that ate the pictures... ;-)

[Ken Gargett]

like i have nothing better to do. new grange and its friends have arived for tasting but no, i'll put that to one side and go and search.

i do regret that i could not find the fly i used for a few of them - literally a small piece of pink rubber band tied to a hook. nothing more.

[El Presidente]

Love the photo's Ken.

Is the belt you are wearing to keep in the gut?

[El Presidente]

» couple of photos didn't take (or rob has jealously editied them). the belt

» is to prevent water flooding into the waders should one upend oneself,

» thereby preventing one from drowning, hopefully.

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Lose the belt ;-)

[Ken Gargett]

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» Lose the belt ;-)

i drown and who is left to put your kids through school. you might need to go out and get a real job!

[Vetteman]

I'm not into fishing (please don't banish me) ;-) , but your pics reinforce NZ's reputation for beautiful country.

[Sandman]

Great photos Ken! Thanks for sharing.

[rudder]

Great pics. What did you catch most of those on?

[Ken Gargett]

embarassingly, one or twwo got foul hooked. a couple on literally an inch and a half of pink rubber band tied to a hook, think one or two on dry but whenever i would ask the guide for a name, he'd just shrug.

[mkz]

So... how much did you pay for the fishes at the fish-market before dragging them out in the wild? ;-)

Seriously: Great pictures!!

[El Presidente]

So........ I estimate that the trip worked out at around $1000 per fish :-D

[Ken Gargett]

» So........ I estimate that the trip worked out at around $1000 per fish :-D

actuablly probably closer to $600 per fish but think of all the holidays we've all been on where there was not even any fishing. makes this a bargain.

so a bit over $100 per lb of fish.

[Fishhound]

Great photos Ken, looks like a great place. I can wait to wet a line myself, I will be going this weekend.:-D

[Ken Gargett]

» Great photos Ken, looks like a great place. I can wait to wet a line

» myself, I will be going this weekend.:-D

this was around the nelson lakes in the north part of the south island of nz. to be honest, this is close to perfect, aside from being too far away, too exy, too many sandflies. too many kiwis goes without saying.

for all the research, reading, chatting etc i've done, i cannot find evidence of a better place to fish for bown trout on the planet. anyone knows of one, please let me know.

[Miami101]

Ken

I have to come to one of these trips with you.

My brother & I were talking about doing Brazil to fish for Peacock.

[Guest rob]

Absolutely beautiful trout!

Amazing even.

[Ken Gargett]

happy?

sorry, wrong photos, but i knew rob would want another look. back to the files.

[Ken Gargett]

some of the country is really wonderful.

this was the first fish but took until day 2 to catch. toughest fishing i have seen here, for all sorts of reasons but i guess that is half the fun. they all sat either side of five pounds.

this one was last cast of the second day way up the matikitiki. we needed about an hour and a half to walk back on a straight line. put up a fantastic fight as it was foul hooked in the dorsal (they all count) and went into the backing. in the middle of it, when he'd gone way up river, strayed into another trout's territory and they went for each other (mine had a small handicap, given a hook in its back). never sen that before.

[Ken Gargett]

apparently they filmed quite a bit of the lord of the rings around here for the caves scenes. for one section, i'm told by my guide (who was booked to guide viggo mortenson but his dad arrived that day) that they flew 120 people up into the mountains every day for five weeks and then used all of 30 seconds of the filming!

there was a trout behind this rock. i started about 8 feet behind it but by the end was literally over him. reckoni cast 150 times at him. no interest.

this is on the matikitiki - leads into a gorge you cannot get into to fish. have had fun here before but no luck on this day (first day - second day, we went to the same river but much higher up, past the gorge).

from the last day, and a piece of rubber band!

blind casting in the rain on the owen.

an impossibly cute trib of the owen, the fyfe, with a few decent fish. apparently a well known spawning creek. there is a decent fish under here but gave up after almost an hour of different flies. got him to cirlce one and have a look at a bfew others but they were tough.

last one for the trip.

des and i enjoying cigars before heading home (god, that sounds so like something out of the back of cig afic!)

[Ken Gargett]

couple of photos didn't take (or rob has jealously editied them). the belt is to prevent water flooding into the waders should one upend oneself, thereby preventing one from drowning, hopefully.

lot better than those tadpoles from chile!