Goulburn River Oct 2010

 A beautiful Goulburn River Brown Trout - my first ever!!  I've fished the Goulburn once before and caught nothing.  This weekend away it poured rain and the river was the colour of coffee.  This fish was caught in the last hour of the last day we were away.  The gold bead nymph firmly wedged in the top lip can be seen above.

 Stormy skies of Thorton where we set up camp at the Goulburn Fly Fishing Lodge.

Coffee coloured waters of the Goulburn where the brown trout above was caught.  Notice the stream on the right flowing into the Goulburn has clear water.  The fish was caught sitting on the edge of the clear water running into the Goulburn.

New Zealand Oct/Nov 2010

A wierd timber statue of a kiwi bird that we saw on the way up back country.

A couple of nice Tongariro Rainbow Trout - 1 caught on 'Daves Run' and the other in the second pool above Daves Run.  Top fish is a hen (girl) and the one below is a buck (male).  The filleting knike pictured is exactly 12 inches (30cm) from tip to but.

Col Parkes fishing his way up to Silly Pool on the Tongariro in New Zealand.

A nice 3 pound rainbow trout being landed on 'Daves Run' on the Tongariro.  The water is crystal clear!

This video is taken using a pair of sunglasses with a built in video camera system.  We had fund trying to get the sucker to work.  I don't know if we ever did figure it out properly??  Is the light suppose to be blue or yellow??

Photo above is from a secrete location not far from where Col earned his nickname of Col (Mud skipper) Parkes. Col earned the nick name of Mud Skipper after trying to cross a small river and finding it had a bottom of quick sand (mud) that swallowed him up to his waste.

A stretch of river on the Tongariro named 'Daves Run' due to the continuous and consistant fish we pulled out of this one little stretch. In one session we nailed 4, dropped 8, busted off 2, and released 2 - all 3 pounders plus!

Some cracker fish destined for the smoker back in Melbourne!

Some beautiful rainbow trout caught on the Tongariro in Turangi, New Zealand.

A couple of nice Rainbow trout caught by David Priddy (aka Panda Priddy) in a stectch of the Tongariro called 'Silly Pool'.

Nice rainbow trout caught by Panda Priddy along 'Daves Run' on the Tongariro.

This is a beautiful rainbow trout that Col (mud skipper) pulled out of a pond in the Back Country of New Zealand. This pond was closed off to the main stream and there were 4 or 5 fish 'land locked' in this crystal clear pond. Col tried a number of different fly's before this one rushed a egg pattern fly and was quickly nailed by Col.

Some cracker fish caught by David Priddy along 'Daves Run' on the Tongariro.

Some of the rainbow trout kept were chockas full of roe (see above).  Col tried egg pattern flies a number of times and managed to nail one nice fish on that fly.