New Zealand: A Trip Remembered

[OnTheFly]

My family and I arrived home Saturday 1/7/12 from our visit to NZ. If you ever get to go there I guarantee you'll love it. Spending Christmas in the summer bends the senses a little. One day we went on a twilight fishing charter out on the Waitemata Harbor out of Auckland. The primary catch was snapper. The limit is 12 fish and no licence is needed for salt water fishing. Here are a few pictures for starters.

Portland is called the City of Roses and Auckland is called the City of Sails. I wonder why?



Carrie with a fish on.






My brother-in-law with a decent size snapper.



Auckland skyline on the trip back.


Digest that awhile...more to come.......

 

[eggs]

Hell yea man! Looks like fun... i can't wait for the stories!

 

[halibuthitman]

looks like a lot of strip clubs in that last photo!!!

 

[Raincatcher]

So cool! Don't leave anything out...we want details. And porn.

 

[bigsteel]

very nice jim,looks like an awesome time across the seas

 

[OnTheFly]

looks like a lot of strip clubs in that last photo!!!

Yeah and that sky tower rotates and there's a big brass pole in the middle.:shock:

 

[GDBrown]

Glad you had a good time there with your family. We all look forward to the stories that will be told around the next campfire!
Now lets get back to finding some fish here in Oregon.....

GD

 

[OnTheFly]

Glad you had a good time there with your family. We all look forward to the stories that will be told around the next campfire!
Now lets get back to finding some fish here in Oregon.....

GD

Gene I'm trying not to exploit the forum by over posting my trip here but I will continue as long as members are interested. I've go one more river to show if you'd like to see it.

 

[GDBrown]

Exploit Please!

I want to see all the photos you've got! I wish we had some way of having a campfire this week so we could all have a chance to talk with you about the trip!

 

[bigsteel]

Jim,you better some some more pics and share your trip

 

[billfisher]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing and keep the pictures coming!

 

[eggs]

Jim, I am going to kill an olive crystal flash wooly bugger everyday until you post pics! starting right now.. those pics were from yesterday!

1 down!

 

[halibuthitman]

Yeah and that sky tower rotates and there's a big brass pole in the middle.:shock:

and then halibuthitmans head explodes!!!:shock:

 

[brandon4455]

and then halibuthitmans head explodes!!!:shock:

:lol: nice pics jim! looks like an awesome trip

 

[OnTheFly]

The Ohinemuri

The Ohinemuri

For a Christmas gift, my sister set up a fishing guide to show us around the Ohinemuri (O-Hee-neh-muir-ee) River in the Karangahake (Ka-rang-ah-hack-eh) Gorge. I know...a real mouthful isn't it. The river is easily accessed from the hwy and runs through a steep gorge filled with dense native bush and Punga tree ferns. The Ohinemuri is only an hour and a half away from Auckland and would be a good 1 day fishing destination. Most fish range between 16 to 20 inches but larger fish can be caught. My son took most of the pictures and he has yet been able to extract all of them from his iphone. Mine came from a poor ISO setting on my camera so not the best quality.






Our guide Ian Gibbs is a fly fishing champion and this is why he can get away with wearing pants like those on the river. I don't think it's a normal Kiwi fishing style of river gear.lol


A fish broke off my tippet and Cody managed to land two. These are of one of those fish.

 

[OnTheFly]

Jim, I am going to kill an olive crystal flash wooly bugger everyday until you post pics! starting right now.. those pics were from yesterday!

1 down!

Holding Olive Crystal Buggers for ransome!? How low can you get!

 

[lilsalmon]

very nice pics....looks like an awesome trip.

 

[JeannaJigs]

I will give you a dollar to wear that dudes outfit on the deschutes.

 

[bigsteel]

looks like a beautiful river,i can only imagine the trout that river holds what was the go to fly?

 

[GDBrown]

Great looking water! Are there many fisherman on the river? It looks like you guys are all alone out there. Hurry post some more before another bugger gets killed!