100 pounds of large brown trout in New Zealand

by Tony Bishop on August 21, 2012

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Miles Rushmore with an outstanding 12 pound Brownie

More than twenty brown trout, ranging in size between 10 and 20 pounds, in a one kilometre long stretch of roadside ditch, closely flanked by six metre high blackberry and swamped by large willows…. Hardly flyrod country – but when it’s the only legal method on this water there had to be a few funny moments. After all, it was practically a joke  attaching yourself to these brutes on the fly – even with fifteen pound tippets and size eight nymphs (just so the steel would hold).
Like when Shauns #12 hook straightened in less than one second flat leaving him lost for words (a rare occurrence). (Full Story)

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