|I'd like to ask the owner exactly why his 'wild' trout are so big .... is it just the wonder and excitement of NZ ... do they have better food ? .... are they mystic ?.... nope. They are stocked and fed every day .... please please please come up with a natural reason for multiple large fish in a relatively small body of water with a natural food supply... go on ... please provide some explanation for you're blatant lies about your country's small rivers.(they choose small rivers 'cause they're easier to maintain a head of fish ... and it's easier for the idiots that part with 2-3k to travel to catch a big lab pet livestock trout) Someone should investigate NZ's 'wild' claims. I'm pretty sure 'wild' is misleading at best and downright fraudulant otherwise.
😂😂😂. Oh where to begin, I suspect You think the earth is flat also? Did we go to the moon? The Great NZ trout conspiracy is that people are sneaking in to the backcountry to feed trout.
Here is a list, tho just to entertain. 1. Very Healthy river systems that are very rich in aquatic life. 2. a Consistently Low Water Temperature that remains inside a trouts optimal metabolising range for much of the year. 3. Clear water that makes feeding more efficient 4. No natural Predators. 5. Good catch and release practice. 6. We secretly feed them all.
Couple of highly respectful gents with the kayaks. Thumbs up for taking them around in the least disturbing places. I have people that will knock you down or float straight through your fishing spot without a word out here in Utah. Refreshing to see courteous outdoorsman.
I’m a retired professional touring drummer, and I was playing in Australia, grew up in New Jersey love trout fishing never a big fly man, but when I lived in Washington state, I had friends who were a huge fly. Fisherman taught me how to fly fish. When I was in Australian finished touring, I had a week off. I flew to New Zealand for three days for today trout excursion with guides the first day we were in a small river or lake dish got me sharp my fly skills on the second day, we were in a big river, and it was to guides one in the water with me and one out on the trees that climbed out over the River and was site fishing where the trout work for us it was one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve ever had in New Zealand is an extremely beautiful country
Love watching fish go back in this is proper fishing putting big fish back People don't realise how long it takes and what the fish goes through to get to this size well done lads spot on lads
Excellent quick releases. Would like to hear you emphasize how important that is in your wonderful videos. Too many videos out there of fisherman telling a story while the fish is gasping for its life. What an amazing paradise. Beautiful, healthy looking fish.
no wonder ... these fish belong to the river owner who put them in ... this is ALL stocked rivers that cost a fortune ... i catch wild fish in perth scotland on the Tay ... we don't have 6lb freaks ... a trout is panmorphic yes ... but they never outgrow they're environment ... laws of physics .... a DREAM trout is just that ... selling holidays to tourists. NZ does it in spades. All lies.
Hi Gareth, there were some beautiful fish, well worth the hike. Watching the two blokes floating by, ( very courteous giving you lots of room) made me wonder about a floating, camping and fishing trip next year. Cheers mate. Harera
I'm sure I'm not the only one that gets excited when the clip starts with the quad bike! DB tells me his big moment in the spotlight was ruined by a "technical fault"!
WOW! What a great section of river! Nice size Rainbows 🌈! Thanks for the awesome videos this year! Happy new year! Looking forward to next year’s Vids 🎣🎣🎣
Absolutely luv your videos. Got mates on the North island, the Naki. Been thinking about heading back for a trout fish adventure, now checking flights. Cheers Aussie
nice fish caught at about 6:00. For all the world, that looks like a McCloud Rainbow, which is a sub-species of the Shasta Rainbow. both strains are native to the Lower McCloud River. The Shasta Rainbow from the McCloud River hatchery in California was widely planted in New Zealand and also in Australia, but the McCloud subspecies was not. I used to not only fish on the lower McCloud but would also guide on that river. You can tell immediately when you hook a big fish because you won't move him with the hook-set, but you will tilt him. And usually when you tilt him, you'll see his side flash. If the flash is either pink or silver it's a Shasta Rainbow. If it's an orange flash though, that's a McCloud rainbo. That flash will be orange because The McCloud Rainbow has an orange stripe along the side instead of pink, orange cheeks, and some even have orange cuts under the jaw. They really get orange during spawning in the Spring and the orange fades a bit by mid summer to look like that fish he pulls up at 6:02. That's a really nice buck and they are strong fighters.
Yep those are really nice trout, but its just like fishing in a barrel or hatchery which doesnt require any talent! but hey im not complaining its still better than working lol
I have never been to New Zealand although I'm familiar with some of the fishing because the fellow that I taught The Orvis West Coast Schools with from 1987 to 1997 (Dean Schubert) started going down there in about 1990. And unfortunately for me, he would bring pictures back. He would go there in January and come back in April in time for our fist Fly-Fishing School. The first year he went there he fished both the north island and the south island. Every year after that he would fish the South Island. He got introduced around down there because a friend who was a steelhead guide on the North Umpqua River in Oregon, would also guide with some family in new Zealand. I can't tell you how many 8 to 10-lb Brown Trout he caught and brought pictures back to show me and our students. His Girlfriend (now his wife), Debbie, actually catered our 3 and 4-day fly-fishing schools in different locations and she met him there in new Zealand once in a while and would stay for a month. The first year she joined him there, she didn't have the casting skills that she really needed for the big and spooky browns, although she landed plenty of 18" to 20" fish on the Arcularius Ranch (5-miles of private water on the Upper Owens in CA) so she had good fishing skills.. But you didn't need to make 40 to 45-ft. delicate casts on the upper Owens and if you spooked a fish, there were plenty more close by. The places Dean and Debbie fished in New Zealand had big fish but if you spooked them, you'd have to walk at least half a mile to a mile for the next big guy. Like they mention in the video, one person will be fishing while the other person is spotting and coaching both the cast and the drift. It got to be that when it was her turn and she knew she didn't have the casting chops to make a good presentation to the fish, rather than spook the fish with a splashy cast and walk to the next fish, she'd tell Dean to go ahead and cast the fish. And of course he'd usually catch it. The next year, she'd get up around 5AM and started on breakfast which was served at 7:30 if I recall correctly. After breakfast was done, She'd clean up and then head out to the river to practice her casting. Then back around 10 AM to prepare lunch. After lunch, she'd again clean up and then head out to the river to practice her casting once again for 2 or 3 hours. Then she'd come back and cater dinner along with dessert, and after dinner she'd actually go fishing instead of just working on her cast. She knew how far away she needed to be able cast and the type of drifts she needed to make, so she spent a lot of time working on them. We spent 75 to 85 days each year teaching schools on the Arcularius Ranch until it sold and closed down in 1997. Debbie catered every one of those meals. So she got a lot of casting practice in before she headed out to meet Dean in New Zealand. The following year at the first school she catered, she brought out pictures of some of the large fish she caught that year including a wonderful shot of a 10-lb Brown Trout that she took on a dry fly about 45-feet away. New Zealand fishing will inspire that kind of dedication to improving your casting and fishing skills. Oh, and by the way, leave your 6X tippet at home. It got to
Yeah you guys have the best strain from our north coast river the sacremento. I live on the Smith way farther north we have rainbows AKA steelhead to 30lbs. I have landed many 20lbers and one 26lbs
Nice videos. When nymphing what length/tippet leaders do you use? In your opinion is nymphing overtaking dries in productivity? I normally think dries when fishing in New Zealand. Thanks. Have fun out there!
one of the coolest parts of fishing is going out into the middle of nowhere and meeting new people, like what? so random! well i guess not as fun if in the amazon 😅
I've been watching your videos for the past year and it always makes me jealous, but I'm finally making my way to New Zealand here in the next few months! I'm starting my journey in Queenstown. I'm hoping to buy some more fly fishing gear/flies when I arrive. Do you happen to know of the best stores in that area I could check out? Thanks, and keep up with the great content!
Whats the point going on fishing trip just to catch and release. Like Idc if it’s big or 400-600gram i’mma take it home and eat it the small once release the big once keep. Maybe only Americans do this for fun but us in Norway most of us takes it home and eat it
Great fishing but those fish were all so very thin, obviously they're not getting enough food. This is what happens when you introduce none native fish, rainbows arent from NZ. Would have expected you to have kept some of them, this would have helped to achieve a more healthy population.
NZ has some of the best conditions and largest trout in the world. They don’t compete with anything and very little predation on native species. An abundance of aquatic insects makes up most of there diet. This was filmed at the start of the season so these fish are a little down on condition but not to bad. This is what a proper wild mountain rainbow looks like. I’d say the perfect fit for NZ
This comment is posted on behalf of fish everywhere: Imagine the pain and terror a fish experiences when a needle-sharp hook rips into its flesh; then the agonizing struggle for its life as it frantically swims to get free. Next, imagine a fisherman eating a juicy cheeseburger when suddenly a treble hook (hidden in the burger) rips into his cheek and he's yanked out of his chair, then lifted to the ceiling with his entire body weight supported by the hook in his jaw. Now, that's a video worth watching! Happy Fishing, everyone!
|I'd like to ask the owner exactly why his 'wild' trout are so big .... is it just the wonder and excitement of NZ ... do they have better food ? .... are they mystic ?.... nope. They are stocked and fed every day .... please please please come up with a natural reason for multiple large fish in a relatively small body of water with a natural food supply... go on ... please provide some explanation for you're blatant lies about your country's small rivers.(they choose small rivers 'cause they're easier to maintain a head of fish ... and it's easier for the idiots that part with 2-3k to travel to catch a big lab pet livestock trout) Someone should investigate NZ's 'wild' claims. I'm pretty sure 'wild' is misleading at best and downright fraudulant otherwise.
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I have seen this drivel on the net for a while now ... last time i did this i got a threatening email offering violence from an ex miltary
😂😂😂. Oh where to begin, I suspect
You think the earth is flat also? Did we go to the moon? The Great NZ trout conspiracy is that people are sneaking in to the backcountry to feed trout.
Here is a list, tho just to entertain.
1. Very Healthy river systems that are very rich in aquatic life.
2. a Consistently Low Water Temperature that remains inside a trouts optimal metabolising range for much of the year.
3. Clear water that makes feeding more efficient
4. No natural Predators.
5. Good catch and release practice.
6. We secretly feed them all.
This is awesome
Couple of highly respectful gents with the kayaks. Thumbs up for taking them around in the least disturbing places. I have people that will knock you down or float straight through your fishing spot without a word out here in Utah. Refreshing to see courteous outdoorsman.
happens here in nz aswell the difference is we have people in jetboats that will roar past and not care
I’m a retired professional touring drummer, and I was playing in Australia, grew up in New Jersey love trout fishing never a big fly man, but when I lived in Washington state, I had friends who were a huge fly. Fisherman taught me how to fly fish. When I was in Australian finished touring, I had a week off. I flew to New Zealand for three days for today trout excursion with guides the first day we were in a small river or lake dish got me sharp my fly skills on the second day, we were in a big river, and it was to guides one in the water with me and one out on the trees that climbed out over the River and was site fishing where the trout work for us it was one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve ever had in New Zealand is an extremely beautiful country
i have no problem that the fish are there ...... they aint wild.
All bred for purpose.
Love watching fish go back in this is proper fishing putting big fish back People don't realise how long it takes and what the fish goes through to get to this size well done lads spot on lads
it wont do anything, as long u didnt fishing with net or even worst equipment, it won't hurt environment at all
Excellent quick releases. Would like to hear you emphasize how important that is in your wonderful videos. Too many videos out there of fisherman telling a story while the fish is gasping for its life. What an amazing paradise. Beautiful, healthy looking fish.
no wonder ... these fish belong to the river owner who put them in ... this is ALL stocked rivers that cost a fortune ... i catch wild fish in perth scotland on the Tay ... we don't have 6lb freaks ... a trout is panmorphic yes ... but they never outgrow they're environment ... laws of physics .... a DREAM trout is just that ... selling holidays to tourists. NZ does it in spades. All lies.
What a day man! Beautiful river, great fish, hell yeah gents! Plus, those yakkers were super cool.
Hi Gareth, there were some beautiful fish, well worth the hike. Watching the two blokes floating by, ( very courteous giving you lots of room) made me wonder about a floating, camping and fishing trip next year. Cheers mate. Harera
Beautiful fish! Love trout fishing 🎣
I'm sure I'm not the only one that gets excited when the clip starts with the quad bike! DB tells me his big moment in the spotlight was ruined by a "technical fault"!
Wow, what a beautiful day and gorgeous fish. Thanks for sharing!
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WOW! What a great section of river! Nice size Rainbows 🌈! Thanks for the awesome videos this year! Happy new year! Looking forward to next year’s Vids 🎣🎣🎣
That’s a magical spot. Those fish are some beautiful HOGS! 😌✊🏽
magical is correct. Not natural fish ... all stockees fed every day.
Good looking water and great fish. A great day fishing and catching.
Отличная рыбалка!
У нас много снега, и очень ждем весну, что-бы тоже половить этих прекрасных рыб!
На связи 🤙🏻
Lifetime day that was epic! Cheers from Montana👍
Beautiful spot, beautiful fish. My goodness. Thx for sharing.
Enjoyed watching you catch those great big Rainbow Trout.
Thanks ....greetings from Turkey
Our pleasure!
Massive rainbow trout there. Looks like the steelhead up here in Washington. Excellent fishing great video!
as an angler...we call it paradise fishing spot....congrats bro...u r lucky...
Absolutely luv your videos. Got mates on the North island, the Naki. Been thinking about heading back for a trout fish adventure, now checking flights. Cheers Aussie
Those are freakishly large rainbows. Amazing.
'freak' is correct ... they're stocked and fed.
nice fish caught at about 6:00. For all the world, that looks like a McCloud Rainbow, which is a sub-species of the Shasta Rainbow. both strains are native to the Lower McCloud River. The Shasta Rainbow from the McCloud River hatchery in California was widely planted in New Zealand and also in Australia, but the McCloud subspecies was not. I used to not only fish on the lower McCloud but would also guide on that river. You can tell immediately when you hook a big fish because you won't move him with the hook-set, but you will tilt him. And usually when you tilt him, you'll see his side flash. If the flash is either pink or silver it's a Shasta Rainbow. If it's an orange flash though, that's a McCloud rainbo. That flash will be orange because The McCloud Rainbow has an orange stripe along the side instead of pink, orange cheeks, and some even have orange cuts under the jaw. They really get orange during spawning in the Spring and the orange fades a bit by mid summer to look like that fish he pulls up at 6:02. That's a really nice buck and they are strong fighters.
It's always great. Your video is excellent quality. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks
What a beautiful spot. I thought we had great trout fisheries here in Canada but that river is next level.
Jeez man those fish were enormous! Looks like an incredible day on the water.
too big ..... obviously stockees.
Thanks for the great videos this year, Gareth. All the best for 2024.
Hey thanks so much Brydan, Really appreciated. Merry Xmas and a happy new year to you. 🙏🤙
Lies Gareth eh ? ....
Great video. Such a big size rainbow trout seen for the first time.
Beauty!
They are some beautiful looking fish nice rainbows I enjoyed your video Say my friend
Good fishing, you guys are catching some beautiful fish!
Great river, nicely done
You release the caught fish, that is very nice👍👍
beautiful fish, what a session
great video.... again. Thanks for the continuing inspiration
to travel to NZ after fed stockees .... yeah right.
Stunning!
Is it a lighting thing or do they look less pink there and more of a salmon color? stunning none the less.
pale stocked fish
wow... a river with lots of fish
Yep those are really nice trout, but its just like fishing in a barrel or hatchery which doesnt require any talent! but hey im not complaining its still better than working lol
It’s definitely not like that. Completely wild fish. I don’t guide this river much as it’s tuff
Those waters over there in NZ are beautiful! Not
Much of that here in Pennsylvania unless we travel
I have never been to New Zealand although I'm familiar with some of the fishing because the fellow that I taught The Orvis West Coast Schools with from 1987 to 1997 (Dean Schubert) started going down there in about 1990. And unfortunately for me, he would bring pictures back. He would go there in January and come back in April in time for our fist Fly-Fishing School. The first year he went there he fished both the north island and the south island. Every year after that he would fish the South Island. He got introduced around down there because a friend who was a steelhead guide on the North Umpqua River in Oregon, would also guide with some family in new Zealand. I can't tell you how many 8 to 10-lb Brown Trout he caught and brought pictures back to show me and our students.
His Girlfriend (now his wife), Debbie, actually catered our 3 and 4-day fly-fishing schools in different locations and she met him there in new Zealand once in a while and would stay for a month. The first year she joined him there, she didn't have the casting skills that she really needed for the big and spooky browns, although she landed plenty of 18" to 20" fish on the Arcularius Ranch (5-miles of private water on the Upper Owens in CA) so she had good fishing skills.. But you didn't need to make 40 to 45-ft. delicate casts on the upper Owens and if you spooked a fish, there were plenty more close by. The places Dean and Debbie fished in New Zealand had big fish but if you spooked them, you'd have to walk at least half a mile to a mile for the next big guy. Like they mention in the video, one person will be fishing while the other person is spotting and coaching both the cast and the drift. It got to be that when it was her turn and she knew she didn't have the casting chops to make a good presentation to the fish, rather than spook the fish with a splashy cast and walk to the next fish, she'd tell Dean to go ahead and cast the fish. And of course he'd usually catch it.
The next year, she'd get up around 5AM and started on breakfast which was served at 7:30 if I recall correctly. After breakfast was done, She'd clean up and then head out to the river to practice her casting. Then back around 10 AM to prepare lunch. After lunch, she'd again clean up and then head out to the river to practice her casting once again for 2 or 3 hours. Then she'd come back and cater dinner along with dessert, and after dinner she'd actually go fishing instead of just working on her cast. She knew how far away she needed to be able cast and the type of drifts she needed to make, so she spent a lot of time working on them. We spent 75 to 85 days each year teaching schools on the Arcularius Ranch until it sold and closed down in 1997. Debbie catered every one of those meals. So she got a lot of casting practice in before she headed out to meet Dean in New Zealand. The following year at the first school she catered, she brought out pictures of some of the large fish she caught that year including a wonderful shot of a 10-lb Brown Trout that she took on a dry fly about 45-feet away. New Zealand fishing will inspire that kind of dedication to improving your casting and fishing skills. Oh, and by the way, leave your 6X tippet at home.
It got to
Hi from far distant Scotland. Superb river and great fishing. Are the hoods, buffs and gloves to protect you from the sun or bugs or both?
Замечательная рыбалка! Очень хочется поймать такую же рыбу, как у вас. Но к сожалению у нас такие не водятся!
Great fishing' gentlemen,
Beautiful river!!
Well done Garath!
Dayum that was pretty crazy, tank after tank. Some real quality ones like that last one for Kieran, yewww 🤙
Great fishing video! You guys got many pretty trout❤❤❤
Yeah you guys have the best strain from our north coast river the sacremento.
I live on the Smith way farther north we have rainbows AKA steelhead to 30lbs.
I have landed many 20lbers and one 26lbs
Every fish a dream fish .
great fishing video!
everything in the video is great❤️💐
Great Video Gareth, thanks.
Nice spot and some great fish
after the bouncy hairy ride to get in there
Awesome guys!
wow love these trouts
'Incredible' just about nails it.
Nice videos. When nymphing what length/tippet leaders do you use? In your opinion is nymphing overtaking dries in productivity? I normally think dries when fishing in New Zealand. Thanks. Have fun out there!
Great fishing in amazing water. Lucky you guys don't have snakes, makes bush bashing a bit more interesting.
one of the coolest parts of fishing is going out into the middle of nowhere and meeting new people, like what? so random! well i guess not as fun if in the amazon 😅
I've been watching your videos for the past year and it always makes me jealous, but I'm finally making my way to New Zealand here in the next few months! I'm starting my journey in Queenstown. I'm hoping to buy some more fly fishing gear/flies when I arrive. Do you happen to know of the best stores in that area I could check out? Thanks, and keep up with the great content!
Frankton. remarkables park, hunting and fishing the guys in there are great
Again a wonderful video happy Xmas
Great Video. Big Rainbow trouts. Where is it. New Zealand? A lot of fun for you. God luck
Μπράβο πεδια πιασατε ωραια ψαρια👍👍
So beautiful place
Do you guys know any good guides in New Zeeland? Im looking to go on a fishing vacation there 😁
Come to Pakistan broo especially Gilgit baltistan
so great
perfesstional fisher 👍🏻
Fishies where fairly large and some looked like they where old so i assume that's not a high pressure river.
we are all lucky that there's no poisonous animals in nz
Good lord! Some lunkers over there
😳Wow, shocking big fish
Nice rainbows! I suggest to change color of your indicators 😉It was hardly to see..
Have a nice Christmas and e prosperous New Year, Gareth.
Hey, little bit of a different question for ya. Do you ever run into animals to be careful around or insects that are harmful?
Na mate nothing here can get you. Bee sting is about the worst.
I LIKE FISHING
Please put the net into the water before you bring the fish closer!
O is for Awesome!
Great video. May i ask what fly line are you using?
I need this fish😮😮😮
Pack rafts on trout streams, hmmmm. They are everywhere now.
awesome.
what size rod/reel what wt are you using for these big fish?
keep it up
We also have big lake with loaded of huge big trout fish brooo
❤❤❤❤❤
Megnufficent!
Nice broo nice enjoy
Nice 🎉❤
Whats the point going on fishing trip just to catch and release. Like Idc if it’s big or 400-600gram i’mma take it home and eat it the small once release the big once keep. Maybe only Americans do this for fun but us in Norway most of us takes it home and eat it
This is a New Zealand thing catch and release and that’s why we have lots of big trout
Guess which river?
What wheel is that?
Where are the big Browns
There in there just a bit harder to find some times
Thanks , U r defferent not like khasi bamduh . ❤
Whats the name of the river? North Island?
Steelhead!
Great fishing but those fish were all so very thin, obviously they're not getting enough food. This is what happens when you introduce none native fish, rainbows arent from NZ. Would have expected you to have kept some of them, this would have helped to achieve a more healthy population.
NZ has some of the best conditions and largest trout in the world. They don’t compete with anything and very little predation on native species. An abundance of aquatic insects makes up most of there diet.
This was filmed at the start of the season so these fish are a little down on condition but not to bad. This is what a proper wild mountain rainbow looks like. I’d say the perfect fit for NZ
💕Wow💛💛💛💛💛💗💗
This comment is posted on behalf of fish everywhere: Imagine the pain and terror a fish experiences when a needle-sharp hook rips into its flesh; then the agonizing struggle for its life as it frantically swims to get free. Next, imagine a fisherman eating a juicy cheeseburger when suddenly a treble hook (hidden in the burger) rips into his cheek and he's yanked out of his chair, then lifted to the ceiling with his entire body weight supported by the hook in his jaw. Now, that's a video worth watching! Happy Fishing, everyone!
Are those Native or Hatchery guys?
Love this stuff, video quality is a bit average though. need a camera upgrade?
What does NZ stand for, New Zealand???
Correct
Thank you. Beautiful fish!!
you will eating one of this or not?