simon
-
Posts
459 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Articles
VIDEO'S & other MEDIA
Forums
Store
Downloads
Events
Gallery
Posts posted by simon
-
-
i cant remember if i posted this but i found this pic from early spring
-
Great fish and look at that weather ! Bare feet
you will be please to know if caught that fish on your boilies...
-
Beautiful pics, Simon, as usual.
I was 2 hours from you one week ago, locked in biz meetings in Auckland. But no way I could fit a day of fishing in the agenda... Grrr. Next time!
its a shame you didnt have more time! it would have been great to meet up... let me know if you are ever in nz and have a bit of spare time
-
id say its a hybrid
this is a hybrid i caught a few weeks ago
-
Nice fish Simon and a nice looking location too!!.. do you ever get any commons or mirrors(non Koi)
All the best...Val
unfontunatley its all koi here plus some hybrids
-
Beautiful koi!
thanks mate! i was reading your article in a previous NACA while i was fishing yesterday... interesting stuff man.
-
the first pic was taken yesteday... when i got the koi i was already dealing with a hybird similar to the one i had during the night a few weeks ago. I had to get a person going for a walk to hold the rod while i un-hooked the hybrid and put it back so i could use the net for the koi
-
Ive been out fishing a lake called Ngaroto a bit which is only about 20 mins from my house! here are a few pics from the last few weeks
Awesome sunset over Mount Pirongia
-
here are a few from the weekend
-
ive caught plenty of ones with the top half coloring but never with orange on the bottom! awesome man!!
-
good stuff jake! love the photo of you playing the fish mate
-
i know the feeling when you loose the trophy fish! you will get it next time mate!
-
love those fish.. my wife has a couple scrapbooking friends in NZ... trip maybe???
they live Christ Church area and Invacargill... is that near you????
unfortunately all the carp are in the north island in the auckland/waikato area... i live in hamilton which as you can see is a fair way away from invercargill
-
yes its a lovely lake alright! here is the other pic i took and a close up of the 12lber i got showing the spots on its head
-
I went out to my favorite lake (lake Ngaroto) on saturday and ended getting some some nice fish! everything hotted up after lunch and the afternoon was especially nice!
I got 2 fish on the float rod and 1 on the carp rods....
got this 12.5lb bad boy on the float rod using 6lb line! it took a fair bit of playing before i managed to get it in!
got this late in the day!
here is a shot of the lake in the late afternoon
-
They should be- yellow perch are a disaster for trout fisheries. Several dozen former trout streams in the US are no longer because of perch and sunfishes (inc black bass).
Are there any native trout to NZ or are they all imports as well?
all trout are imports to nz just like the coarse fish... but since trout are seen as awesome game fish everything else is seen as rubbish.
-
they were introduced around the turn of the century by the accliamtisation society's... basically they were trying to make nz like england! its a pity they didnt introduce commons and mirrors here to! or pike for that matter.
-
What kind of perch are those?
they are the European perch
-
the shirt made me laugh.... i actually didnt notice it at first! i apologise if anyone doesnt like it.
-
Check out these big Perch! this guy has been catching them on a regular basis this size! the lake is also a great trout fishery but now all the trout anglers are up in arms because Perch got in there somehow! naturally they blame coarse fishermen.....
-
Here are the pics from today... I took a guy called Doug out for his first real carp fishing session at Lake Ngaroto. The annoying thing was that he caught all the fish at my spot!!
i didnt catch anthing except a small hybrid on my float rod while he got all the decent ones!A nice 6lber
And not long before we left he got a bloody 12lber!!
-
thanks guys! its certainly one of the nicest fish ive caught
im pretty sure this lake is going to produce a monster soon.... -
Well today is the first day of spring here in NZ and i decided to go out and try my new match rod out and do a bit of feeder fishing... i had a great day and got about 7 fish in total! this awesome koi was the best of the lot
it was about 8lbs... not big but i just love the colours.
-
good stuff jake! i got my first set of bank sticks and alarms last year from Wacker Baits and it was great to be finally fishing with some decent gear
Latest night fishing expedition
in Pictures, Stories & Video
Posted
Well it was a funny old trip to lake Ngaroto at least i got one decent fish (hybrid) and some lovely nature shots
I had put out alot of bait the day before and some when i got there but the Carp just didnt show up.... i guess thats fishing eh 
I Love being able to park next to the bank!
A nice dusk shot
Then came a nice fish
and now its morning