PT, am one day going to NZ, gathering info till that happy day comes...is the dry fly casting in NZ truly the long distance casting of legend?
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Sometimes. The fish in NZ are extremely spooky. If you can get a drag-free float from a longer distance, you have a better chance of not spooking a fish. I'm a passable caster, but not an expert, and sometimes the needed distance taxes my limits. My moments of greatest glory were on a backcountry NZ river where the fish was about 80-85 feet upstream, and I needed to lead it by several feet. I either caught the same fish (a 9-pound rainbow) three years in a row or caught three different fish of the same size there in successive years.
No, I can't usually make 85- or 90-foot casts. It helped a lot that I was standing on a rock 10 feet above the river.
What's your favorite fishing situation?
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#62Dry flies when trout will rise on small to medium size mountain streams and lakes.
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#65Large fish rising along the bank on an outside bend during a Blue Winged Olive hatch.
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#66I'll go a little different route. My favorite situation is to be fishing in a river/creek/lake with a high fish density. I figure I can sort out everything else if I am confident there are fish there......
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