3-Day Fly Fishing Adventure into NZ's Backcountry
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Big trout, clear water and sight fishing!! This was our best fly fishing trip into New Zealand's pristine backcountry rivers. It was all sight fishing to big trout in gin-clear water. Challenging but very rewarding fishing. What a stunning place.
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**DRONE FOOTAGE**
The drone footage is all old footage from a trip a few years ago with Lewis and was filmed with the permission of East Taupo Lands and Helisika. We did not take a drone this time.
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Beautiful fish and scenery. Thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it mate, should be some more coming once the new season starts in a couple of months. Tight lines.
Great story, Johan. Unforgettable memories. Thanks.
Thanks Pawel, look forward to our next one!
spectacular footage and a wonderful aerobatic display from the first dry catch. Beautiful
Thanks Haydn, that rainbow went a bit mad like a tailing marlin ay. Was pretty cool.
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Best thing is the opportunity to share it with your friends.
Absolutely Dave. It's much better with a good friend than solo and even better when things go well.
Enjoyable watch that. It's great to see you and Pawel embark on a journey like that in pristine water. Along way from civilization, how good is that. Some lovely rainbows caught and brown. Some spooky fish also, which is no surprise in water like that. A lot of it is in the drift. Some pools can be tricky to get the ideal drift
Yeah it's a great spot, we got lucky no-one else was in there too as it's relatively well-known and the hut is always busy with trampers and hunters.
Great job Johan and Pawel, appreciate all the work that goes into making these for us to enjoy, I'm getting pumped as I head off in two weeks fora back country mission, hoping for some dry fly eats.
Cheers Mike
Thanks Mike, appreciate the kind comments. It's great to know you enjoy the videos. I hope you have a fantastic trip and get some good fish on dries. Tight lines.
Excellent Johan, great that you and Pawel were able to make a back country trip come together, I imagine that river has seen a lot of traffic over summer as so much of the country has been blown out.
Thanks Neil, it was great to make it out there. I think it always sees a fair bit of traffic and certainly even more this year so the fish are well versed in fly fishing by this late in the season. Always a fun challenge though and I think we did reasonably well. Very enjoyable.
Great video , amazing when the sun comes out the picture quality was incredible .
Some nice fish, thanks for your efforts. 👍
Thanks Jamie, that place is just stunning with a bit of sunshine and the fish are pretty neat. Glad you enjoyed it.
You two have great chemistry.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Always great fishing with Pawel
So beautiful river!
We are luck to have some stunning rivers here
An epic episode. really captured the essence of the adventure. Well done m8.
Thanks mate, it was a fantastic trip. Will have to drag you along on one of these. You will enjoy the challenge
Awesome video
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully not too long before I have another one.
What an awesome trip boys!! The views spectacular. Glad you all had a great one!
Thanks very much my love! Will have to take you and the kids in there one day.
@@CrazyAboutFlyFishing i may need a zipline through the forest!
@@balbirg3 we'll just get a chopper, the kids will love it!
@@CrazyAboutFlyFishing zipline willl be way more fun and a little cheaper maybe?
Hat we were there a few weeks back
Great place fantastic
Thanks, I really enjoy it in there. Look forward to my next trip in the summer. Might give it a go early season this time.
Beautiful river~
It's such a stunning place. Thanks for watching, tight lines
Great video and scenery Johan. Mark & I usually say as a last resort..."worm the bastard".....:) Tight lines mate.
Haha I like that. It's often my last resort with browns or late in the season a even dirtier egg 🤣
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Thank you very much. Best regards from New Zealand 🇳🇿
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Hi Johan, beautiful river but running a bit shallow so obviously the fish are skittish. Accommodation looks good and beats having to carry all that extra gear! You two make a good hunting pair. Cheers mate. Harera
I'm not too familiar with the normal levels in there but it did seem lower than the last time I was in there with Lewis. I also think it gets a lot of pressure so the fish know flies very well. Still a great place and I much prefer staying in a hut and not having to fish with packs on! Tight lines.
Awesome adventure guys 😊👍
Thanks mate, it was a great adventure indeed.
The longest walk I've ever done to get to a fishing spot is around 40 minutes. I plan on a few long hikes to lakes this year . Seems to be worth it. Better quality fish
It's worth it if you find the right spot. I have also walked a long way for no or very few fish. But the experience is pretty cool deep in the backcountry with or without fish. Give it a go and hope you have a great trip.
Love the video! What a cool adventure. The dead fall on trail definitely adds to the excitement! Curious what each of you were using for rod, line, etc? Thanks for sharing! 🎉
Thanks so much, great to hear you enjoyed it. We were both using 9' 5wt rods. I had a 4 piece Primal Bold and he had a 6 piece Epic. It's a custom built blank from a kit as far as I am aware. We were both using floating lines and 12 ft tapered leaders plus tippet to the dry. I was using an Airflo Universal Taper with ridge 2.0 and I think he was using an SA smooth infinity amplitude. Let me know if you need any more details. Tight lines.
Amazing video mate. What river is this? Im keen to get out to some lovely spots for camping and trout fishing.
Glad you enjoyed. It's a great spot but I don't share location details online unfortunately. A bit of research should get you a bunch of good backcountry spots. Looking and the DOC website with maps of their tracks and armed with some river names you will soon find some great spots.
looks cool
Thanks
Amazing videos....are there any small fish in NZ? Haha, I'm from the east coast in America.
Haha yeah we do have some small ones but places like this we target the big ones by sight fishing so that eliminates the small ones even more. We are very lucky with the average size of the trout we have
Good!!
Thanks you 🎣
Absolut amazing Video. Unfortunately we dont have so beautiful Streams in Switzerland. How do you fix your GoPro Camera at the Hoody? And sorry about my english
Thanks you, glad you enjoyed it. I use a Snapmount or Ulanzi magnetic mount. Very useful. Tight lines
The creator of the squirmy loves it. 👍
That's awesome to hear Dave, love the squirmy! Always a few in my box. What's the best colour? I tend to use mostly red and purple here mostly. I also have an interesting way of tying it, there is an old video of how I do it on my channel. I'll see if I can find the video. Keen to hear what you think.
Here it is been very effective for me so far: czcams.com/video/5Fon-zXLumM/video.html
@Crazy About Fly Fishing the blood and fire red, and the pink are my best colours.
great video
Thanks Ken, much appreciated. Great to hear you enjoyed it.
nice video mate. Its a good spot in there, you see many other anglers ?
Thanks mate, yeah it's a great spot but it does get busy as it's a relatively easy 3.5 to 4.5hr walk. I've only been in twice and been lucky not to have any othet anglers but the hut gets busy. On the way out a guide stopped to chat to us asking how the fishing was because he was going to fly clients in there. Lots of choppers all day so could easily get jumped by a guide with clients or have a group fly in. It's a risk on public land. Not a lot of water for more than one group of anglers. If you get lucky like we did you get the water to yourself. Weekdays are certainly a safer bet not over a weekend like we did.
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Beautiful spot. I love the bird song - great audio. What weight tippet were you guys using?
It's an awesome place, indeed. I was using 3ft of 4x and a 12ft 3x tapered leader. Not sure abour Pawel but probably similar
@@CrazyAboutFlyFishing thanks! And thanks again for the amazing video 👍🏼
@NZ Adventurer glad you enjoy it. Some bonefish stuff coming in a while. Might get out for a quick trout trip at some point too.
Great video!
What dries were you using? Cicadas or something smaller?
Also…I won’t use names but have you been to the “next” hut that’s about another 3.5hr hike after this one? I’m thinking of heading there late Jan but I’m worried about too little time to do both areas.
Thanks!
Thanks, glad you liked it. I haven't been to the next hut so I'm not sure if it is worth it. We used parachute adams pretty much exclusively in late January. There weren't many cicadas around and we found the fish spooked on the bigger flies landing. I think it is just a combination of low water and pressure. It's a popular area. Enjoy. It's a stunning spot.
You two are so lucky!!!!! Both great anglers. What time of year and river? Would love to come down
Thank you very much, we are indeed. This was late summer in the North Island of New Zealand. I don't name the specific rivers on social media though, sorry.
Hey Buddy, nice Video! Can you make a video about your clothes (pants, shoes, etc.) and your equipment (jetboil, camera, etc.)? Or does it already exist? Tight lines!
Hey mate, thanks for the idea. I haven't made that yet but I am planning to make some more videos like that in the next few months so keep an eye out. In the mean time I have a big trip coming up in April for bonefish and hopefully one or two more trout trips before then. After that I plan to do a bunch of breakdowns of gear and how to plan trips like these etc. Let me know if there is anything else you would like me to include.
I'm glad that you've already thought of such a kind of video :) I would like to be able to look into your backpack what you have with you on the water, which camera you use, which wadingsocks you use which pants you have that dry quickly, things that make fishing on the water easier and more comfortable like thermopants for wetwading:)
Epic filming guys, love that river but it tought us a lesson last time I fished it early spring, does it fish well oct/Nov?? Cheers mate 👍
Thanks very much. I've only fished it twice and both times it was in February. Our first trip was much tougher. I'm told early season is better but I imagine you risk running into other anglers a lot more. Not a lot of water for two or more lots of anglers to share.
Yer that's the risk aye, go later with less pressure but spooky fish or earlier, we're weighing up the odds for next season. What tippet were you using? Cheers!
@Dani Foote 4x added to a 12-foot 3x tapered leader. Total about 15 to 17 ft.
what wading pants / boots?
I'm using some old Columbia quickdry pants and Simms Flyweight Access boots. Not sure what Pawel was using. He mentioned his pants but I honestly can't remember. His boots were probably his old Traper ones.
Any idea why the upload is pixilating every 10-20 seconds or so? Anyone else experiencing this? Would like to eliminate that. Is it the upload itself or a YT issue or a broad band issue??
Would be broad band issue. Sounds like a poor connection. You could try forcing a higher resolution in settings under the little cog icon