Hi Gareth, as you said, huge fish, many times! The nicest part for me was to watch you fishing under a clear sky and no other angler in sight. Thats the type of fishing we all love. Cheers mate. Harera
@@jumpninthedarkalley yep, there is an idiot in every location. Our problem is that we don’t have just one, we have more, many more! Cheers mate & Harera
@@TroutHuntingNZ Hi Gareth, you remember what your mother use to say to you?, “Now Gareth! Just because all the other kids yell to jump of the cliff, does that mean you have to yell the same thing?”. Keep it up mate, you are worth watching just for your fishing technique and your photo shots. If I wanted info, I watch Alex! Cheers mate. Harera
No kidding I was wondering if anyone else caught that on the video. It never fails if you have a lure, bait or fly in the water the very moment you place your attention on ANYTHING ELSE...bang a fish eats it.....he was lucky he got that one for sure.
Awesome fish! I usually keep my mouth shut, but you seem to lose a lot of fish right after touching the blank above the cork. Great to see you so happy making a few videos again!
I have learnt something valuable from you today That is how far you start away from the waters edge reducing your disturbance, I am in the UK, I do this when approach a lake, I must try on the river. Thank You so much.
Those waters are absolutely breath taking. Never seen water that is that blue. I have fished the the Big Thomson in Colorado and several rivers and streams in Austrian alps but never have I seen water like that. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing. If you ever get a chance try and fish the state of Colorado you need to especially for brook trout. Got my PB brook trout at 11 pounds. In my area the closest you can catch brook trout is the smokie mountains and those fish although wild....if you are lucky you will catch a 8 incher.....thats a trophy in the smokie mountains. Thanks for sharing.
Ok, I must visit New Zealand. The beauty is amazing in the video, can't imagine fishing that clear of water in California, honestly. And the Trout, we have Salmon here that don't get as big!
An awesome days fishing, what beautiful specimens, I never realised they had such mouths with the hook like a salmon, very interesting, thanks for showing us, good video sir.
I’m going change fly after this one…boom…fish on, love it🎣🎣🎣. Watched loads of videos of this canal but most use a spinner. Nothing better than fly fishing though, in my opinion. Would love to have something like this in Scotland. Another great video👍
Are they good eating at that size as they are huge, I’ve seen them under the shot over boat in Queenstown they are everywhere, are they fussy what fly they take? 👏
Excellent video again Gareth sure were beasts. Fished the canals once and got a few 5 pounders was over the moon. Keep them coming great way to spend the evening and dreaming of going over again when this Covid is under control. Regards Con
Fantastic. Beautiful fish!! Where is that located on the South Island? I've been all over down there when I used to travel to NZD on business- Gore, Queenstown, Invercargill, Dunedin, Nelson, and Christchurch (unfortunately spent time there after the earthquake). Loved all my trips to both the North and South. Makes me want to drink an ice cold Steingrenade right now!!
Could you imagine if there were trout like that in oregon? You would be fishing elbow to elbow with people. NZ has so much good fishing people don't have to fight over rocks to stand on. Hahahaha
When I was single I fished every weekend for years. where the Deschutes empty's into the Columbia their is a Green Island. Between Green and Miller Island their is a channel it starts at 25ft deep then falls to 70ft I anchor at the 25 foot with enough rope to drift over the 70 foot. I back bounce using a 4 to6 oz weight and 0/6 barbless J hook Fresh frozen squid from safeway for bait. You need rubber thread to keep the bait on the EXPOSED hook. The lowest # of white sturgeon was six but that included a 8 footer that jumped out and I had to look UP to see it! The most I ever caught was 36 I had to stop because I couldn't lift my arms. The channel between Miller and WA is fun 50ft deep FLAT purposely dragging anchor and placing my bait in the slipstream I caught a 10fter my boat is only 17ft long! Fun watching all the Salmon fishermen at the mouth of Deschutes fight for a little bitty Salmon. HA!
Here on the great lakes we have trout this big both rainbows and browns and you'd be surprised how much open space there is. So many times you can be the only one fishing on a great bite with big fish.
have you ever considered giving center pinning / float fishing a try? its what I do here in the states and its really effective for trout, salmon, and steelhead. it looks like it would work really well there in there canals.
Using an indicator is basically,, the same thing😄 Indicator is a Small Bobber. Canadians did it decades before, anglers did here in the US. I know because I saw it on my way for Archery hunting for Moose and Caribou in BC😒
The Canal fish are that big for a reason the canal has large cage salmon farms in it the pellet food from those farms seeps out into the canal and the trout sit under the farm and eat that food which is designed to put weight on fast so the big trout while mostly naturally bred are all artificially fed to those proportions. So they are the Lie Great fun to catch though I have been a few times :)
Are these fish born in this canal? Not that it matter, they are gorgeous fish. I'm just curious. What are they eating that makes them so big? They gotta be eating a lot of protein, right? Shrimp, crawfish, sculpin, minnows, all of the above? Cheers, man. Incredible.
It’s the fish pellets in the water from local fish farms. Fish hunters nz are not disclosing that for some reason. Shame, shame. Dishonest to their RUclips audience for some reason.
Just wondering... were you just showing select fish that you caught? Or is that place only loaded with huge fish? You didn't catch any smaller ones? LOLI
Bro, I feel for you after losing that MONSTER. But ill say, I KNEW that was a mammoth trout when you set the hook and the fish just sat there like a log for a second. AMAZING.
There are plenty of trout like that in the States! Try Lake Michigan. Or Arkansas White River. The World record Brown trout comes from Arkansas, USA .....NOT New Zealand!
They've got big football shoulders in them and aren't long and lean like most of our steelhead. Do they come from our stock? Even in remote Alaska, where the 'bows have access to a healthy diet of salmon eggs, that don't get this big
Yep, that's the hydro canal south of Lake Tekapo. I haven't been over from Oz for a few years but when I fished that canal the fish were mostly escapees from the salmon farm. Interesting to see all the big rainbow trout now.
Been there but didnt have the correct set up to fish the huge trout. Nymphs and markers. asked a fella if I could hold up and take a pic of his catch. The trout was 3xs the size of this one caught. Massive. True story.
So I've watched a few of these videos and it looks amazing, the water is so blue. Why are the fish so big? Is there some super abundant food source or something? Great video
@@lupegalvan9993 Just pellets. They look like the pellets you can get for dog food. You can call in at the Mt Cook salmon farm and feed the salmon in the pens. It's pretty awesome to see the big fish rampaging around the pen chasing the food.
Epic fish, epic place to fish. Really, if there is a place on earth that is the definition of epic, then its NZ ;-) My dream is to fish there (and in some other places, others i've already visited) one day. In my homeland we have a river that i use to fish in for many years now. Old fishermen often told me about the giant trout that they used to catch there in their youth, i've seen pictures of fish that match the size of the fish you caught. I catch my fish, not only trout but also pike, also in good sizes, but very, very seldom big fish, and that "big" is far away from the "mammoth size" of your fish :-P . You have to really know the river and be creative, it's difficult, the fish are wary because nowadays there are many fishermen there, and most of them keep every fish they catch if it's legal size, some even keep smaller fish, so there is a high pressure on these fish - a mistake often means death. That's most likely the main reason why there are no more giant fish there.
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Hi Gareth, as you said, huge fish, many times! The nicest part for me was to watch you fishing under a clear sky and no other angler in sight. Thats the type of fishing we all love. Cheers mate. Harera
No other angler in sight until this fool posted his location right in the title. All for the glory and attention. What a fool
@@jumpninthedarkalley yep, there is an idiot in every location. Our problem is that we don’t have just one, we have more, many more! Cheers mate & Harera
@@jumpninthedarkalley yeah cos no one's ever heard of this spot 🖕
Dude these canals are all over social media. Get over it
@@TroutHuntingNZ Hi Gareth, you remember what your mother use to say to you?, “Now Gareth! Just because all the other kids yell to jump of the cliff, does that mean you have to yell the same thing?”. Keep it up mate, you are worth watching just for your fishing technique and your photo shots. If I wanted info, I watch Alex! Cheers mate. Harera
This dude cracks me up. He is chill.
Thanks I think🤙
NZ is comically beautiful. It's like something out of a dream.
Thanks heaps
Too bad their government is doing their damnedest to make it an authoritarian hell hole.
Love the take and hook set around 9:35... clear waters... sure helps when the canal is loaded with giants, wow!
Cheers mate
Got to love catching those huge rainbows eh, never gets old. Specially when you’re getting them on the fly rod. Great video mate, bravo 👏
Cheers bud
the drone b-roll resquence at the beginning is awesome, nice work man
Thanks heaps dude
Appreciate your establishing shots. Congrats on your recent vid with 1.7m views & thanks for another great video, Garreth.
Thanks heaps bud I appreciate it
This is epic. I must admit to yelling at the screen when that take happened while you were in the phone - classic! 😂
Love your videos - thanks again.
No kidding I was wondering if anyone else caught that on the video. It never fails if you have a lure, bait or fly in the water the very moment you place your attention on ANYTHING ELSE...bang a fish eats it.....he was lucky he got that one for sure.
That was freaking amazing. Love what you do. Keep up the great work
Cheers bro
Awesome fish! I usually keep my mouth shut, but you seem to lose a lot of fish right after touching the blank above the cork. Great to see you so happy making a few videos again!
Yeah I don’t think there is anything in that . Cheers mate 🤙
@@TroutHuntingNZ Completely fair! :)
I'd say you've reached the pinnacle of the Trout Hunting dream my friend!
Check that I think you might need one or two Siberian Taimen first.
Oh yeah I want to catch them so bad. Hopefully one day
I have learnt something valuable from you today That is how far you start away from the waters edge reducing your disturbance, I am in the UK, I do this when approach a lake, I must try on the river. Thank You so much.
Cheers glad u got something from it
The fishing and scenery look amazing. Cheers from North Carolina!
Hoping NZ will welcome tourists back soon. Bucket list fish.
Hopefully yeah
Great video of some spectacular fish and fishing. Im envious
Big or small, the Rainbow trout is truly a magical fish. Keep up the videos!
Cheers mate
That’s absolutely amazing my friend.Areas that hold that quality fish is harder and harder to find.Pleasure to watch…thanks for posting
Simple, look for a fish farm and fish the water behind. These trout eat pellets from a fish farm ... explains the lack of fighting power.
Those waters are absolutely breath taking. Never seen water that is that blue. I have fished the the Big Thomson in Colorado and several rivers and streams in Austrian alps but never have I seen water like that. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing. If you ever get a chance try and fish the state of Colorado you need to especially for brook trout. Got my PB brook trout at 11 pounds. In my area the closest you can catch brook trout is the smokie mountains and those fish although wild....if you are lucky you will catch a 8 incher.....thats a trophy in the smokie mountains. Thanks for sharing.
Welcome to the Monsters Ball! I love fishing those “grassy knolls” or “moss pods”
So darn beautiful there. Great edit. Thanks for a great video
Thanks mate
Another epic adventure. Awesome as always brother!!!! 🇳🇿🤙🏻
Thanks mate
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@@TroutHuntingNZ a q aqq!a! Beautiful
Stunning fish Gareth, the frustration was worth it prehistoric bohemiths...
Cheers bud
Absolutely awesome!!! If it was possible I would move to New Zealand just for the fishing!!!
Ok, I must visit New Zealand. The beauty is amazing in the video, can't imagine fishing that clear of water in California, honestly. And the Trout, we have Salmon here that don't get as big!
Dang dude. Absolute monster trout! I love it
New subscriber from the USA specifically the state of Idaho... Epic trout fishing 🎣🎣🎣
Cheers bud I really appreciate that 🤙
A lot of red of them rainbows baby!! Beauty
Wow great video man!! Those fish are absolutely beautiful, along with the location! Keep up the great work!
Thank u
Awesome Vid! making me very excited to get a new rod and my new licence next week. I will have to take a drive down there for some fun.
Oh my God why A Nice fishing man 👍👍👍👍👍👍🎣🎣
Cheers bud
@@TroutHuntingNZ TQ
An awesome days fishing, what beautiful specimens, I never realised they had such mouths with the hook like a salmon, very interesting, thanks for showing us, good video sir.
Absolute monster, nice one.
amazing ,and huge trout there
youre a total genius mate
Love watching your vids bro keep it up
I know this took a lot more work than it looks. Well done mate.
Cheers mate I appreciate that
Have to add this to my bucket list 👍
Do it
I’m going change fly after this one…boom…fish on, love it🎣🎣🎣. Watched loads of videos of this canal but most use a spinner. Nothing better than fly fishing though, in my opinion. Would love to have something like this in Scotland. Another great video👍
Are they good eating at that size as they are huge, I’ve seen them under the shot over boat in Queenstown they are everywhere, are they fussy what fly they take? 👏
They take any flies on a good day. Nymphs and eggs work best. Not sure about eating sorry I put them all back
What a beautiful place you are fishing at.
Excellent video again Gareth sure were beasts. Fished the canals once and got a few 5 pounders was over the moon. Keep them coming great way to spend the evening and dreaming of going over again when this Covid is under control. Regards Con
Cheers mate
Fantastic. Beautiful fish!!
Where is that located on the South Island? I've been all over down there when I used to travel to NZD on business- Gore, Queenstown, Invercargill, Dunedin, Nelson, and Christchurch (unfortunately spent time there after the earthquake). Loved all my trips to both the North and South. Makes me want to drink an ice cold Steingrenade right now!!
Right in the middle. Mackenzie basin
@@TroutHuntingNZ Thank you. Amazing country. Loved every bit of my time there.
How many of us were yelling “strike” when your indicator dipped while you were texting 😂😂
I was when I edited it
Could you imagine if there were trout like that in oregon? You would be fishing elbow to elbow with people. NZ has so much good fishing people don't have to fight over rocks to stand on. Hahahaha
Less people doesn’t hurt either.
When I was single I fished every weekend for years. where the Deschutes empty's into the Columbia their is a Green Island. Between Green and Miller Island their is a channel it starts at 25ft deep then falls to 70ft I anchor at the 25 foot with enough rope to drift over the 70 foot. I back bounce using a 4 to6 oz weight and 0/6 barbless J hook Fresh frozen squid from safeway for bait. You need rubber thread to keep the bait on the EXPOSED hook. The lowest # of white sturgeon was six but that included a 8 footer that jumped out and I had to look UP to see it! The most I ever caught was 36 I had to stop because I couldn't lift my arms. The channel between Miller and WA is fun 50ft deep FLAT purposely dragging anchor and placing my bait in the slipstream I caught a 10fter my boat is only 17ft long! Fun watching all the Salmon fishermen at the mouth of Deschutes fight for a little bitty Salmon. HA!
Here on the great lakes we have trout this big both rainbows and browns and you'd be surprised how much open space there is. So many times you can be the only one fishing on a great bite with big fish.
Laughed when I saw the conservation license plate here that said Oregon “HAS NO” Salmon. But it was a sad laugh.
Kiwis generally prefer wild fish to pellet grown canal fish 🐟
Thats some gorgeous water.
Just awesome mate what nice drone footage
have you ever considered giving center pinning / float fishing a try? its what I do here in the states and its really effective for trout, salmon, and steelhead. it looks like it would work really well there in there canals.
Yeah lots of people do a form of that here
Using an indicator is basically,, the same thing😄 Indicator is a Small Bobber. Canadians did it decades before, anglers did here in the US. I know because I saw it on my way for Archery hunting for Moose and Caribou in BC😒
Centerpinning is alot different than indicator nymphing. Various different concepts involved.
Here in Denmark a 2kg trout is a good fish.... I feel like ive been living a lie haha! Nice vid!
The Canal fish are that big for a reason the canal has large cage salmon farms in it the pellet food from those farms seeps out into the canal and the trout sit under the farm and eat that food which is designed to put weight on fast so the big trout while mostly naturally bred are all artificially fed to those proportions. So they are the Lie
Great fun to catch though I have been a few times :)
`Amazing fish....Wow!
You are one lucky man - astonishing fish! You did well to keep the language in check!! Keep 'em coming!
Can’t help thinking “delicious !” when I see a nice rainbow like that. Do you not ever keep one of these trout for your dinner?
8:29 fall hits right with the beat.
Glad you noticed 🤙
I need to go to NZ and do this - great video - lovely fish dude.
Cheers bro 🤙
It’s amazing how that big fish could see that tiny fly.
Can't you see flies?
@@christophermillett2273 no I’m blind. If you must know.
PIGS. That is crazy fishing. Pulling trophy fish consistently is insane.
Certainly some big fish there...but nothing beats stalking 'em on the Ikawatea !
OMG! Amazing, the last one was bigger then Grover.
Gotta love the eat while on the phone, that happens to me every time 😂
Thumbs up was a sign. Liked.👍
Amazing Gareth.
👌👌👌
Thanks mate
waooo i like it that was amaizing fish but i wonder why you catch n release them again
Really cool intro and just incredible fish. Enjoyed the editing too. Great vid.
Cheers mate
Welcome back Alex...great stuff. Will you be hooking up with Alex at all? Always liked the way you two fished together
I mean welcome back Gareth duh
Haha yeah we will be fishing together soon
When your line wrapped up on your reel. I felt that.
Yeah that was stressful!
A couple of things. One what flies are you using and sizes ? Two one is your setup? Beautiful fish..Congratulations
Nice shootin' Tex
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Are these fish born in this canal? Not that it matter, they are gorgeous fish. I'm just curious. What are they eating that makes them so big? They gotta be eating a lot of protein, right? Shrimp, crawfish, sculpin, minnows, all of the above? Cheers, man. Incredible.
Wow!
Chur
Beautiful trout!subscribed
My god those trout are huge 😮
Looks like a strain of rainbow called red-band, mostly in the high northwest of California and a little more north. Are you in New Zealand ?
Yes these fish are from that area so you be right. Yep NZ
@@TroutHuntingNZ , Do you reckon that those trout are eating Galaxide fish or smelt ?
@@sugarsnap7883 Feed from the salmon farms.
Even man-made canals are beautiful in NZ.You guys must have prayed a lot to the fish gods. 😛
Those are some nice gar.
what a fishing, 10 meters from the river.
Amazing work mate keep it up it is my dream to go to nz and catch some massive trout
Come do it . Cheers 🤙
@@TroutHuntingNZ I want to I just subbed
@@downunderfishing105 thanks mate
How do they get so big there!?!? Is it a lack of predators? Here in California everything eats our Trout/Salmon, Bears, Eagles etc
Combination of a lot of factors. Things just line up here to create big trout
It’s the fish pellets in the water from local fish farms.
Fish hunters nz are not disclosing that for some reason. Shame, shame. Dishonest to their RUclips audience for some reason.
Just wondering... were you just showing select fish that you caught? Or is that place only loaded with huge fish? You didn't catch any smaller ones? LOLI
All fish in Themis canal are huge. The small ones can’t come out and play as they will get eaten
Beautiful water.
What size tippet are you using to catch these trout ?
Umm in this video it was most luckily 4x or 3x 6lb-8lb
Bro, I feel for you after losing that MONSTER. But ill say, I KNEW that was a mammoth trout when you set the hook and the fish just sat there like a log for a second. AMAZING.
First fish he says "It's not massive." Holy cow that thing WAS massive. Can't imagine catching something like that in the states.
There are plenty of trout like that in the States! Try Lake Michigan. Or Arkansas White River. The World record Brown trout comes from Arkansas, USA .....NOT New Zealand!
I walked the full length of that canal in 2010, saw so many huge trout
What are they eating to get that big. "Only 12 pounds". That buck looked like a steelhead. Are some of them sea run I'm NZ?
There not searun but are genetically identical to your steelhead. They just have some interesting living conditions in the canals which makes them big
They've got big football shoulders in them and aren't long and lean like most of our steelhead. Do they come from our stock? Even in remote Alaska, where the 'bows have access to a healthy diet of salmon eggs, that don't get this big
good to see someone with your caliber gets as frustrated as i did.
Haha yeah and I cut out the really bad bits
I remember driving from Mt Cook to Queenstown.Sometime after Lake Pukaki i saw man made canals like this (i think)...do they hold fish?
Yep, that's the hydro canal south of Lake Tekapo. I haven't been over from Oz for a few years but when I fished that canal the fish were mostly escapees from the salmon farm. Interesting to see all the big rainbow trout now.
Well? Take your hands out of your pockets and go take a look!
Awesome!!
Gorgeous
Cheers
Fantastic skills.
Would love to fish there. Great video
Thanks heaps mate
Could you please put a link to the cloths you have, boots pants etc?? id like to get some quality stuff and your gear looks awesome.
Been there but didnt have the correct set up to fish the huge trout. Nymphs and markers. asked a fella if I could hold up and take a pic of his catch. The trout was 3xs the size of this one caught. Massive. True story.
So I've watched a few of these videos and it looks amazing, the water is so blue. Why are the fish so big? Is there some super abundant food source or something? Great video
I heard it's because there are salmon farms upstream and the feed filters down to be gorged upon by these trout.
@@karlmaddd oh. What are farmed salmon fed exactly?
@@lupegalvan9993 Just pellets. They look like the pellets you can get for dog food.
You can call in at the Mt Cook salmon farm and feed the salmon in the pens. It's pretty awesome to see the big fish rampaging around the pen chasing the food.
Epic fish, epic place to fish. Really, if there is a place on earth that is the definition of epic, then its NZ ;-)
My dream is to fish there (and in some other places, others i've already visited) one day.
In my homeland we have a river that i use to fish in for many years now. Old fishermen often told me about the giant trout that they used to catch there in their youth, i've seen pictures of fish that match the size of the fish you caught. I catch my fish, not only trout but also pike, also in good sizes, but very, very seldom big fish, and that "big" is far away from the "mammoth size" of your fish :-P . You have to really know the river and be creative, it's difficult, the fish are wary because nowadays there are many fishermen there, and most of them keep every fish they catch if it's legal size, some even keep smaller fish, so there is a high pressure on these fish - a mistake often means death. That's most likely the main reason why there are no more giant fish there.
Thanks heaps mate
I wanna go there. Mean vid brother.
Cheers bud 🤙
Looks awesome bro 👌 wish we had trout that big here in Washington
You DO have trout that Big in Washington!
@@jonness8927 true just not browns
These must be steelhead - they are rainbows not browns
The UK: We have canals here. They have roach and stuff in them.
NZ: That's not a canal. That's a ditch.
Ditch in the UK, Canal in NZ, and a Channel in the US. 🤷♂️
Beautiful fish. Tip: set downstream you set the hook back into the fish instead of out of its mouth. Best of luck!
Do people ever keep those things or are they allowed too? Epic video as always man!
Yeah u can keep 2
Dope vid! Beautiful fish. We need a addicted x nz collab
Cheers mate
Incredible video, really enjoyed it!
What weight and length leader/tippet did you go for here?