The one that didn't get away!



read this if you want to know about the one that did
http://www.flyfishingwales.com/newzealandtrout1.htm

http://www.flyfishingwales.com/Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guide

Nice fish Kim, good to see you on here.

BTW are you sure that's not an Usk fish

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With heart and creel in common light,
Complete content, the day has brought it,
They fished for pleasure - and they caught it"

P F Morgan
taken from the catch record book at Llanthony Hotel, Honddu Valley, Aug 1942

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Happy new year Kim hope all is well.

Best regards

Jonathan Tomlinson

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Lovely fish but I wish anglers righly or wrongly would not hold fish at arms length to give the impression that they are bigger than they really are.
Tight Lines

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Arms length or close up - that's one cracking good fish! This time not from the Usk!

By the way - welcome Kim and a Happy New Year to you.

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Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

Agreed SB, a superb looking fish indeed.

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"A homeward tramp thro' mist wrapped night,
With heart and creel in common light,
Complete content, the day has brought it,
They fished for pleasure - and they caught it"

P F Morgan
taken from the catch record book at Llanthony Hotel, Honddu Valley, Aug 1942

www.monnowlogue.com
www.monnow.org.uk

How do you know he doesn't have short arms and giant hands?

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Awesome fish and not much cover on that river either by the looks of it. I bet the fish are a tad spooky!

JRT

In general they're not. New Zealand is so big for the number of inhabitants that there is miles upon miles of water that hasn't been fished for years.

The fish are free rising and if you put a dry on their nose then they'll willingly take it.

And that's from experience

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Well Thanks Guys and Happy New year!!

May take me a little time to get into this posting lark, try to spend more time in or around water if I can instead of in front of a screen if I can help it!!

Sewinbasher thanks for the defence of my 4lbs Usk trout photo, well we where proved right in the end thanks to Rhys Llewellyn of the tourist board and the EA officers in question (4lbs Usk Brown)

Just for the record somewhere South Island New Zealand, not Patagonia or Chile

Have a go at guessing what river?

I won’t confirm or deny, well not publicly, guides prerogative anyway it’s always sweeter if discovered by yourself, harder, takes longer but in the end sweeter