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AN AQUATIC ADVENTURE The art of fly fishing Words by Steve Dickinson - Images by Lynne Dickinson My earliest memories are fishing with my dad on English rivers, catching coarse fish like roach, rudd and perch. We then moved to New Zealand, and I soon discovered the joy of sea fishing and I still love it today. But twenty years ago we bought a property on the banks of the Tongariro river, and I was introduced to trout fishing. Trout fishing is not like any other fishing, the results are often small and modest by comparison to other fishing. Yet there is so much to learn and understand and it is more like hunting than fishing, it’s more of an adventure. New Zealand both North and South Islands are intertwined with a plethora of available trout streams, rivers, dams and lakes. There are numerous websites and books that outline where the most accessible are and how to access them. There is nothing more exciting than driving up to a river access not really knowing what to expect. Some rivers are right there, others you have to tramp sometimes for days to get to. (It is important if you are crossing private land to ask permission). Recently a mate and I smashed through bracken and up a small goat track for what seemed hours following the hardly used trail not really sure if we were going in the right direction. Then as we crossed a low ridge line, we looked down on a crystal-clear river on a large bend no deeper than a foot. And we could see the silhouettes of the trout from where we looked down. We approached the river ‘stealthy’; these big boys don’t get to hear a lot of footfalls. On the sandy bank for as far as you could see in both directions you could not see a footprint, not a sign of mankind. As per our custom we sat, we watched, and we whispered rather than just jumping straight in. Just using our go to flash back peasant tail, and keeping a low profile while casting, first cast big rainbow, second cast big rainbow, third cast big brown. Catching the fish is the bonus and it does not always work out so well, but when it does come together there is nothing like it. I am no tramper, I find it boring, but if you add trout fishing to that I’ll happily spend all day walking the banks of a river casting a fly, hunting the fish for kilometres. It is so much less about gathering food (but trout do taste good if cooked correctly) but it is more about the experience, more often than not I find myself sitting on the bank just looking at what an amazing place we live in, and it is right on our front door. ADVENTUREMAGAZINE.CO.NZ//59
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