Float Fishing is Riveting

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I caught this 14lb Jack brown trout at 10.30pm on May 2,1998 at the mouth of the Hinemaiaia River as it flows into Lake Taupo. The fly was a size 10 Booby fly with black head, lumo body and a big tuft of black marabou for the tail. Fished on a rocket sink shooting head with an 18 inch, 8lb leader.

There is a wide spread myth that brown trout do not take lumo flies. This is a myth. All the large browns I have caught in lakes, at least twenty fish over 8lb, have been caught on lumo flies.

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