Thank you, that's a great thing to hear. Really, no matter how we fish or if we fish at all, being immersed into these stream environments is just amazing 😊
An Amazing video. These small tight little streams are a thing of beauty. They hold a special place in my heart and have done throughout my childhood days. The anticipation of what may or not be around the corner of this and that beautiful trough, that undercut bank, over hanging branch alongside the willows, etc. You just know sooner or later that there's going to be a nice fish somewhere along there feeding, and then it's game on! Meanwhile, the birdsong and the fan tails, gosh, I love the fan tails, particularly when walking to them streams and have them so often follow you along the way. That wind early on in the day was relentless. That's so often the norm over in my neck of the woods in the South Island of New Zealand, especially around October through to December before settling down a bit throughout January and February. Awesome trout landed in such stunning sections of water ....
Everything you said! ❤️ it's funny... so many times we're asked 'where?'' And our reply is always, just have a go and walk a stream that you cross. So many people arrive here and say that they want to fish this or that river or to catch a big fish so they go where the big fish rivers are and find pressured and unenjoyable fish. Meanwhile so many km of small streams and so many km of fantails and wonderful stream life are missed in that obsession. Yet, still, we manage to find a few nice fish in not targeting them 😊🥰
@jensenflyfishing I'm hearing you. I couldn't agree more. The name of this and that river is irrelevant. I get that myself, just a few individuals every now and then asking of the location. Some people are just about chasing big fish. I mean, don't get me wrong, I feel greatly satisfied when coming across a big bruiser, especially when you perhaps weren't expecting to within the current choice of stream. I don't generally look for a place that has specifically big fish. I'm more about exploring really cool pieces of water that not every Tom, Dick and Harry have been to on a regular basis. The journey these places take you. The small streams, the surroundings, the discovery of what you find an, I'm not just talking about the fish. To me, catching the fish is just the side show as there's so much to these awesome little streams. As you mentioned, the wildlife, birds, the pure sound of nature.. Keep up the great work 👍🏻
@@HighcountryFlylife the biggest gift we can give ourselves as fly fishers is to be lost in the sense of place, immersed in these environments. We're there for the fish but the fish become only a small part of the whole so quickly. :)
Great vid guy's it's been a long time coming but well worth the wait. Clare and myself have had a couple of session's this current season, one on. opening week up from the station. Which was a mid week trip some beautiful fish caught including much to our surprise and delight a 5 pound rainbow. The station owner told us a couple of year's ago that a few hundred small bow's had been released but he assumed they had been eaten by brown's or shag's. Obviously they got out to sea and are now returning, as we ran into a lad on a Wednesday a couple of weeks later who was spinning the reaches from the lower bridge to the mouth\lagoon. He told us. he had caught a few fish since the opening including two bow's, had we not experienced what happened opening week we may not have believed him.50 yrs of fishing this truly unique river off and on and it still serve's up some surprises. If you are back here for the current season you will have seen the willow removal, back in the early 70s the riverbed had some small clumps of willows dotted here and there with the river running open in most places. It's amazing the growth over the years, how the river will cope is hard to tell as back in the day there was a lot more water and no irrigation or very little on going development.
:) Good to see you here again! That rainbow must have been a great surprise - we actually wish there were a few more of them kicking about various waters along the east side. The trout are so often packed full and heavy and there is nothing like a hot, fat trout in these streams :) Those are neat surprises - unlike the other surprise waiting for our arrival in the absolute galling and shocking willow nuking. Absolute shocker and I guess the next thing will be perpetual digger works to control flooding and braiding now that there are no trees nor roots to control water flow direction. Unreal. Time will tell but now that there is so much extraction to irrigation and vineyard use it'll be an interesting near-term future. We didn't fish it low this year at all, and given the 4x4 and motor bike issues as that feature article in StuffNews, it really put us off anything but higher. We had a few great days poking about this year tho. Funny thing is that we still have several videos from last season to come - we've been holding back the best of those videos as we finally mature a little on this channel and start to share our best work/fishing/filming. Great stuff ahead :)
So glad you enjoyed this one. We're kicking into more of these style videos here on so hopefully they connect with you as well - thank you and happy new year! 😊❤️🍻
Love your ability to coax these fish out of the tightest spots. And congratulations on the stunning Piwakawaka footage, our special little native bird. Looking forward to more of your top notch video in 2024. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you both.
:) Fantails will always stop our fishing. The world's most friendly fishing companion right there :) Thank you for stopping in and all the best this holiday season :)
i wish i had a trout river even remotely close to where i live :/ there are some nice rivers where you can do fly fishing for chubs (nice sized too), i'm seriously considering travelling to the UK (2,5hr flight haha) for a fishing trip just to catch my 1st ever trout.
They have been that in a wild battle between the se and the nw with the cold se air winning many thus far. The waves of warmth are starting the win now tho, thankfully! 😊
You literally produce some of the best content on the Internet, but it is not translating into subscribership. A niche, I recognize yes. But, so is power washing someone's driveway. Millions of views why? The UA-cam algorithm is broken. I guess you need to be more woke? Perhaps more mindless disconnection from something beautiful and useful? Love you both. Please do not give up. Commenting here and liking to help the algorithm. Thumbs up.
Thank you for the kind words and spirit. It's a funny thing and we love what we do and share but as you've observed several times the past couple of years we just don't get the traction. Not sure how much more woke we can go - maybe just observe fish and do voice-overs of why we shouldn't catch them? ;) We do linger longer than pop-culture wants, we share the other stuff and not the hype and those kinds of things just don't connect with the high % of UA-cam. But, thanks to the folks that support our Patreon / Digital Membership, we're able to continue this channel. It's a bit of a funny world but again, loving what we do, it's just now finally maturing into the channel we hoped it would :)
im not into fly fishing but the videos that you make i absolutely love them great job
Thank you, that's a great thing to hear. Really, no matter how we fish or if we fish at all, being immersed into these stream environments is just amazing 😊
Just wanted to say thank you for all the amazing educational info. You guys are truly amazing. Much love!
Matt
Glad you enjoy them and thanks for the ++ comment 😊🍻
Appreciate you both. Fantastic content
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 😊🍻
An Amazing video. These small tight little streams are a thing of beauty. They hold a special place in my heart and have done throughout my childhood days. The anticipation of what may or not be around the corner of this and that beautiful trough, that undercut bank, over hanging branch alongside the willows, etc. You just know sooner or later that there's going to be a nice fish somewhere along there feeding, and then it's game on! Meanwhile, the birdsong and the fan tails, gosh, I love the fan tails, particularly when walking to them streams and have them so often follow you along the way. That wind early on in the day was relentless. That's so often the norm over in my neck of the woods in the South Island of New Zealand, especially around October through to December before settling down a bit throughout January and February. Awesome trout landed in such stunning sections of water ....
Everything you said! ❤️ it's funny... so many times we're asked 'where?'' And our reply is always, just have a go and walk a stream that you cross. So many people arrive here and say that they want to fish this or that river or to catch a big fish so they go where the big fish rivers are and find pressured and unenjoyable fish. Meanwhile so many km of small streams and so many km of fantails and wonderful stream life are missed in that obsession. Yet, still, we manage to find a few nice fish in not targeting them 😊🥰
@jensenflyfishing I'm hearing you. I couldn't agree more. The name of this and that river is irrelevant. I get that myself, just a few individuals every now and then asking of the location. Some people are just about chasing big fish. I mean, don't get me wrong, I feel greatly satisfied when coming across a big bruiser, especially when you perhaps weren't expecting to within the current choice of stream. I don't generally look for a place that has specifically big fish. I'm more about exploring really cool pieces of water that not every Tom, Dick and Harry have been to on a regular basis. The journey these places take you. The small streams, the surroundings, the discovery of what you find an, I'm not just talking about the fish. To me, catching the fish is just the side show as there's so much to these awesome little streams. As you mentioned, the wildlife, birds, the pure sound of nature.. Keep up the great work 👍🏻
@@HighcountryFlylife the biggest gift we can give ourselves as fly fishers is to be lost in the sense of place, immersed in these environments. We're there for the fish but the fish become only a small part of the whole so quickly. :)
Great vid guy's it's been a long time coming but well worth the wait. Clare and myself have had a couple of session's this current season, one on. opening week up from the station. Which was a mid week trip some beautiful fish caught including much to our surprise and delight a 5 pound rainbow. The station owner told us a couple of year's ago that a few hundred small bow's had been released but he assumed they had been eaten by brown's or shag's. Obviously they got out to sea and are now returning, as we ran into a lad on a Wednesday a couple of weeks later who was spinning the reaches from the lower bridge to the mouth\lagoon. He told us. he had caught a few fish since the opening including two bow's, had we not experienced what happened opening week we may not have believed him.50 yrs of fishing this truly unique river off and on and it still serve's up some surprises. If you are back here for the current season you will have seen the willow removal, back in the early 70s the riverbed had some small clumps of willows dotted here and there with the river running open in most places. It's amazing the growth over the years, how the river will cope is hard to tell as back in the day there was a lot more water and no irrigation or very little on going development.
:) Good to see you here again! That rainbow must have been a great surprise - we actually wish there were a few more of them kicking about various waters along the east side. The trout are so often packed full and heavy and there is nothing like a hot, fat trout in these streams :) Those are neat surprises - unlike the other surprise waiting for our arrival in the absolute galling and shocking willow nuking. Absolute shocker and I guess the next thing will be perpetual digger works to control flooding and braiding now that there are no trees nor roots to control water flow direction. Unreal. Time will tell but now that there is so much extraction to irrigation and vineyard use it'll be an interesting near-term future. We didn't fish it low this year at all, and given the 4x4 and motor bike issues as that feature article in StuffNews, it really put us off anything but higher. We had a few great days poking about this year tho. Funny thing is that we still have several videos from last season to come - we've been holding back the best of those videos as we finally mature a little on this channel and start to share our best work/fishing/filming. Great stuff ahead :)
Dear Amelia & Dave, I wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. Thank you for all the amazing video's and see you next year!
Thank you and to you as well! 😊🥰❤️🍻
Fantastic video and great photography of the fantail rituals
So glad you enjoyed this one. We're kicking into more of these style videos here on so hopefully they connect with you as well - thank you and happy new year! 😊❤️🍻
Leave me speachless ❤ so nice to see how you fish these brownies and your reading of the water. Greetings from belgium!
Thank you and glad to hear you enjoy our shares 😊🍻
Love your ability to coax these fish out of the tightest spots. And congratulations on the stunning Piwakawaka footage, our special little native bird. Looking forward to more of your top notch video in 2024. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you both.
:) Fantails will always stop our fishing. The world's most friendly fishing companion right there :) Thank you for stopping in and all the best this holiday season :)
Brilliant, so informative and enjoyable to watch.
Thank you - glad you enjoyed this one :)
First we had Donald Duck, then Daffy Duck and now Jesus Duck.. Nice vid team, much appreciated.
😁 gotta be something! Glad you enjoyed it
Wind like that you would think you guys were in Wellington lol. Great video and great fishing.
That'll be next year's trip! 🤣
@@jensenflyfishing haha good stuff. Some great fishing around here if you do. The capital has some suprises.
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i wish i had a trout river even remotely close to where i live :/ there are some nice rivers where you can do fly fishing for chubs (nice sized too), i'm seriously considering travelling to the UK (2,5hr flight haha) for a fishing trip just to catch my 1st ever trout.
They are fun if you get the chance. The neat thing is their behaviour but really, if you can set up on any fish and it be a challenge, it's fun 😊
Great vid!👍
Thank you 😊
great action guys in difficult conditions we are currently in an el nino weather pattern so the norwesters are a weekly occurrence
They have been that in a wild battle between the se and the nw with the cold se air winning many thus far. The waves of warmth are starting the win now tho, thankfully! 😊
Awesome Video!! What size tippet are you guys using for your dry dropper?
thank you - 4x on that one :)
Fantastic stuff!! With the fish regularly headed for cover, what lbs Tippet are you using?
Hiya. 😊 we tend to use 3 and 4x and a mid flex rod to dampen the fight under 😊
Thank you!!!!@@jensenflyfishing
absolutely beautiful, you are living my dream :_)
Thank you. Dreams take a heap of time, effort and work! 😊🍻
Fantails was my favourite part...one landed on my rod one day
Truthfully always our favorite part of any day. The world stops when they're about in hopes of a rod visit or just to enjoy their presence ❤️
You literally produce some of the best content on the Internet, but it is not translating into subscribership. A niche, I recognize yes. But, so is power washing someone's driveway. Millions of views why? The UA-cam algorithm is broken. I guess you need to be more woke? Perhaps more mindless disconnection from something beautiful and useful? Love you both. Please do not give up. Commenting here and liking to help the algorithm. Thumbs up.
Thank you for the kind words and spirit. It's a funny thing and we love what we do and share but as you've observed several times the past couple of years we just don't get the traction. Not sure how much more woke we can go - maybe just observe fish and do voice-overs of why we shouldn't catch them? ;) We do linger longer than pop-culture wants, we share the other stuff and not the hype and those kinds of things just don't connect with the high % of UA-cam. But, thanks to the folks that support our Patreon / Digital Membership, we're able to continue this channel. It's a bit of a funny world but again, loving what we do, it's just now finally maturing into the channel we hoped it would :)
Awesome content 👌
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Brilliant as always!
Thank you 😊🍻