Incredible Winter Fly Fishing For BIG Rainbow Trout! [like Steelhead]
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- This winter fly fishing in this river is incredible! It holds thousands of steelhead-like rainbow trout during winter and we had some of the best fly fishing I have ever had!
#flyfishing #steelhead #troutfishing #rainbowtrout
The rainbow trout run up from a big lake to spawn in winter and behave a lot like steelhead except they live their lives in a lake and not in the sea. The river's lower reaches remain open for fly fishing during the winter, allowing for some excellent trout fishing as the fish run up.
The video was filmed with a concession from Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board.
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Amazing footage from the drone on that pod of trout 👍 good job
Thank you 😊
River of 1000 trout is right, its going to be a big learning curve on all the CNI rivers after the floods, I hope it hasn't affected this years spawning survival to much. Great to catch up with you in Turangi and all the best for the future of the channel.
Yes, they will be different rivers by the time we see them again. Hopefully the spawning isn't affected but I guess it will be a few years before we find out. Likewise was great to meet you. Hopefully we cross paths again soon. Not long now till we are back in the backcountry
Best TT video on youtube! thanks for this
Glad you enjoyed that. We were there again on Tuesday but it was so crazy busy for a weekday. Still got a heap though. It's fishing very well.
Great aerial views!!! Hopefully we'll catch up soon on another production!!!
Yes, yes it's been a while since you've been in a video. Hopefully it doesn't rain too much more before I come down your way!
Awesome video and great footage Johan, tight lines and thumbs up mate,, Tony.
Thanks Toney, glad you enjoyed it, tight lines
Those top down shots are awesome
Yeah was luck to get some good shots. Hope I can get another go before the end of the season
So GOOD Johan! Cool to watch the fish eat and the delay to the indicator. Great watch, thank you.
Yeah, it makes you wonder how many we miss and why the euro is so effective with that direct contact. Glad you enjoyed it
This has to be one of your best videos yet. Not just the fishing, but the editing on this is top notch! Really well done Johan!
Thanks Eric, that's so good to hear. Glad you enjoyed it and much appreciated
great video!!! love the music and the aerial shots!
Excellent, get ready for more things are looking good
Hi Johan, that river just gave you heaps of fish, they were not even spooked by the splashing of a caught trout. Marvellous aerial shots that read showed off the huge school of fish. Nice one! Cheers mate. Harera
It's been so good to me this season. The drone footage is cool to watch on a big screen too, you can even see when the trout swing to grab the fly. Very neat. Glad you enjoyed the aerial shots. We have been lucky with shots like this last couple of trips.
Godz. 23.30 jestem w pracy spanie męczy ale po takim filmikuuuu odrazu jest przebudzeniee🎣🎣🎣 o 6. 00 kończę także 7.00 jadę na kropki 🙂👍Dzięki Pozdrawiam
To wspaniale słyszeć, cieszę się, że Ci się podobało, dziękuję za oglądanie i komentowanie.
Wow, the cinematography in this video was incredible, you did an amazing job capturing the beauty of that river. The trout you caught looked like so much fun too, I really enjoyed this video!
Thanks so much. Hopefully I can keep producing more videos like this. I'm trying to improve a little each time.
i love your video nice... love it
Fantastic, thank you 😊
That was an amazing video! Enjoyed it! Definitely I will watch again. All the best.
Awesome to hear and thanks very much. Tight lines
Like I said on your CZcams short I love fishing I fish with my brother I catch bluegill catfish and sometimes huge Bass sometimes small Bass and I subscribed I'm only 10 and I love fishing I have my own fishing rods I have my own fishing kit I got it from a festival not Festival a tournament where you fish it was in Bella Vista and I caught two fish I think and yeah it was fun I know this is a long comment but I love this video plus those trout you caught or rainbow trouts and in a game I play I catch so many types of fish I catch flounders trouts sunfish and many more I hope you read this comment
Bass and bluegill ate great fun to catch. Enjoy the time you spend with your brother and the outdoors. Gald you enjoy the videos. Tight lines
Hell Yohan I thought when you casted into that bunch they were going to do what they regularly do to me!
Well done 👏 ✔ mate.
Craig
Thanks Craig, yeah they were pretty good to us. They just stayed there and let us catch a heap of them. Was a great morning
Loved this vid, drone shots are sick as mate! Keep up the good stuff, will hopefully meet you on the river one day!
Awesome thanks Adam, much appreciated and if you see me on the river make sure you come over for chat. Always keen to catch up
Nice to meet you guys that day, awesome fishing. I wish I could have stayed longer, the Tongariro was unsuccessful for me. I was going to head up this morning, unfortunately the river went back up overnight
Thanks Mark, was good to meet you too. There seems to have been a alot of rain down that way lately. Might be worth checking out the Hine? About the only one that might not be flooded. Hope you get some fishing in. I'll be down again next week for a couple of days.
Some great photography, you have upped your game!
Thanks Mark that's awesome to hear. Hopefully I can keep building on that each time and keep on delivering better content each time.
Back in action!!
This video is awesome mate, 💣💥
Finally indeed, hopefully I can get myself sorted and get the SI stuff edited and out as well
Beautiful Work Team . 🚀🚀🚀🚀
Thanks mate, we've gotta catch up for a fish down there some time too
@@CrazyAboutFlyFishing for sure . That would be cool to catch up . 🎣 keep the amazing videos coming. #inspo
That immediately reminded me of the "steelhead" of Pennsylvania and Ohio in the US. They are very similar to these trout but the great lakes are quite a bit saltier than a normal lake. Still, the instinct a lot of trout have that turn them anadromous doesn't go away regardless of the location. That's why South America has runs of sea trout and steelhead since that instinct seems to be present in a percentage of all trout. Or I believe that's roughly the basic biology that causes many of them to do so, that some trout are born with the instinct and some aren't. I know even brook trout are known to run in the oceans in the few rivers that they exist in that connect with the oceans. And again like these rainbow trout, the brook trout of the great lakes are very similar with many of the biggest brook trout ever caught coming from the great lakes and migrating up the Nipigon river. It just runs in those salmonid's blood to do that and my goodness the growth they experience is staggering. Look at those fish and in those numbers. I know you said it wasn't your day but any day on water with that level of trout fishing is a good day! Not to pretend like you take it for granted, but what an incredible video and incredible fish.
Thanks Adam, appreciate your insights. The trout here I believe are decedents of California river steelhead. At least so I am told. They behave much like anadromous fish do. They live their lives in the lake growing fat and big on the food there and run up the tributaries to spawn. The do still look like rainbow trout though when they run up, just big. The photos I have seen of large steelhead looks quite different and much larger. I don't know all that much about the subject though but I know the fishing is great and has been exceptional this season. We are very lucky to have such an incredible fishery. I saw your message about the indicators, I'll respond later today. Tight lines and thanks for taking the time to comment and hope you enjoy all the videos, more coming soon.
@@CrazyAboutFlyFishing Thanks a lot buddy! Yeah the true steelhead are much larger and they tend to lose all those nice spots and stripe along the sides when they're fresh from the ocean. They only start to look more like a huge rainbow trout after they've been back in the river/creek for a while. The reason I put steelhead in quotations is because some people don't consider the transplanted steelhead of the great lakes to be real steelhead, but they do in fact come from steelhead broods from many years ago and are distinct from the local rainbow trout which of course are also transplanted as their native range is the plains of the US to the pacific coast.
Though, I do think biologically rainbow trout can birth steelhead and steelhead can spawn rainbow trout. I may be wrong on that, but I remember looking into the differences or lack there of and if rainbow trout were genetically identical to steelhead. And I do believe they are, however, in adult hood, even adolescence, they're much different fish. Having caught even some of the 16 or 17 inch steelhead from the great lakes, it's unbelievable the additional power they have. And if nothing else, they absolutely have a distinct appearance from the majority of rainbow trout, again unless they've been in the creeks and darkened a lot. Even then, I don't remember if they ever regain their spots I'd have to double check that.
All I know is from what I remember, they're fairly odd creatures, the rainbow trout. Genetically identical are steelhead and rainbow trout except I think just a hormone or some thing else genetically/biologically that dictates anadromous or diadromous fish. Yet the difference is incredible. If you ever get to fish for steelhead, especially the real deal ones on the pacific coast of the US and Canada, they're something else entirely. As tough and hard fighting my biggest rainbows have been, they've never compared to even a little 15 inch first year jack steelhead. A little one like that can put you in your backing in seconds and will unless you horse it.
I never forgot the first time me and my dad fished for the great lakes ones and after he caught about a 22 inch steelie, he was trying to horse a little 15/16 inch one in like he could just over power the thing. It absolutely worked him over and broke his line lol. It was incredible.
Thanks for the great info. I think these trout are similar in nature to the Great lakes fish. They are also very silver and sometimes spotless when the leave the lake and turn dark in the river. A silver fish here is referred to as a fresh, being freshly up from the lake. They average around 3.5 - 5lbs and this season there have been good numbers of 6 and 7lb fish as well. I don't know the length as we tend to weigh fish here. Not sure why. The difference here is that the lake is entirely fresh, no salt but just productive with lots of food and baitfish. They are also super strong fighting especially in the currents and the only place where trout have put me into the backing regularly. Hopefully I make it over one day to come fish for steelhead. Tight lines
@@CrazyAboutFlyFishing You too buddy, I always enjoy talking fishing, learning what others experience especially when they're on the opposite side of the globe.
Yes I would imagine they're very similar, that's what I've noticed myself about most rainbow trout. They all tend to look similar and behave similar. Anadromous trout always turn a much more silvery clean color, and as you say those are the fish that are coming in fresh/freshly run. Some places just use different terms for the same thing, but the silvery rainbow trout are fresh in from the oceans or lakes. But as you say and as those trout show, you don't need an ocean, just a big lake for the same effect. That's exactly how the steelhead of the great lakes are. They just go into the great lakes of the US and Canada and then migrate into the streams and rivers that feed the great lakes to spawn. The only difference is many of the spawns aren't successful due to pressure from fisherman and/or lack of water quality where we are.
When I said the 16/17 incher, that's a first year returning fish which would be about 2 - 2.5 lbs. Though I don't know the kilogram conversion but that should give a better idea of the power they hold, even the smaller fish. Though, I have little doubt those trout you're fishing for from a big lake too are just as powerful. I really don't doubt it. I think the only steelhead/rainbow trout that are probably even bigger and stronger are the pacific ocean steelhead, the original steelhead.
I also saw those trout run you into your backing and didn't doubt they did haha, I just was marveling how the steelhead we've seen here, even at little sizes, will easily put you into your backing and it's an amazing difference. Regular trout that we have over here need to be two feet, 4-6lbs to run most people into their backing. But the steelhead/anadromous rainbow trout can do that at a much smaller size, like 2-3lbs.
But, the trout are so big and healthy in New Zealand I'm not sure if you see many small trout or fight too many but all I can say is fishing for the regular rainbow trout often here in Pennsylvania, they only have about 2/3rds the power to weight of a their steelhead brothers. And I want to emphasize again that the fish we have aren't close to the strength and quality of New Zealand fish because many of them are brood stocked and not stream born and raised. Or they're stocked as adults. Where I am, we just don't have the quality of water or the respect from 99% of fishermen to sustain wild trout.
It's sad but most dick heads I see use huge barbed hooks to catch little 9 inch trout, drag them on dry shore, don't wet their hands, squeeze the fish to hold them still and often kill them even if they release them. That and people are happy to harvest 5 trout a day multiple days a year where I am and don't care about longevity let alone sustainability, so every year we need new fish. Anyway, that's just another digression, but it's all to say New Zealand is blessed in how it treats it's incredible trout.
@@adamg7984 These lake trout definitely have some extra gas in them and fight very hard indeed. We do have a few rivers around where there are some similar size and strenght resident rainbow trout. We are very lucky here with the amount of great rivers and low human population and average size of trout. For the time at least. Like any other country New Zealand is focussed on growth so won't be like this forever unfortunately.
Nice video :)
Thanks 😊
Enjoy your videos a bunch.
Would you briefly describe the gear you’re using.
Weight - line - tippet.
Appreciate it. Thanks again.
Hi Dave, that's great to hear. Gear is fairly simple. 6wt rod, floating line with and aggressive taper to turn over the heavy flies. 9ft 3x tapered leader plus 4.5 ft 3x tippet to the first fly, which is a heavy fly in this case a double tungsten beaded Simon's ugly style nymph. Then 30cm off the bend of that of 3x tipped to an egg fly. Globug, soft eggs all of them work. The indicator is a NZ strike indicator with wool and tube but any yarn strike indicator will do. Hope that helps. The key with these winter fish is to get down to the bottom quick as that's where they are
Very nice video, Johan. Can you tell us about the song you used at about the 4:55 mark? I'm guessing the name of it is To the River, or On the River? It really struck a chord with me.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. My songs are all licensed through artlis.io and this one is indeed called To The River by Michael Shynes here is a link to it artlist.io/song/39692/to-the-river
Also found it on Spotify open.spotify.com/track/2N0QMW6G4A9vApaWFeuigN?si=V5vKqrjgQPyYnbHpr6v7Ng&
where do you buy the fishing rod?
Fly fishing store is your best option
Awesome video!!!
What is the title for the song??
Thank you. The song is called To The River by Michael Shynes, I posted the spotify and artlist link in an earlier comment.
can really see you have been focused on upskilling yourself in the editing department! Really good.
Thanks, that's really good to hear. I will try to keep it up
Where?
New Zealand, North Island, Taupo region.