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8lb Brown Trout, from a small fish fishery. Took 5 years of exploring the particular river to find a specimen of this size and quality.
I was fishing my local river in the north island over lockdown, I said to my self I'm going to catch a fish this cast and boom slayed this brown that cast on a veltic
3rd salmon for the season and probably my best all round condition and size fish......stoked as, caught at rakaia river mouth approx 7:45pm 10th Jan 
Photo cred Andrew Ablett (dad)
4.5 lb caught in rain on Motueka River. Mayflies hatching even in cold and wet.
I don’t go fishing much so to catch this beauty was a treat.
Blind strike in a deep pool. Caught on a wiggly worm fly in  North Canterbury.
Beautiful old Jack, two Jacks are better than one.
This bow gave me an absolute run for my money, I just had to hold on until it let me land it
Sons first trout on his first day fishing.        3 1/2lb
Neeve is 12 years old and has been fly fishing for a couple of years now.

This was a pretty nice brownie around 7lb she caught and released in the Te Urewera's in January this year
Me (pictured) and my Dad went fishing at Lake Mclaren but we never expected to land this beauty, a 1.7 Kg Rainbow.
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