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Fishing ReportsBest Western Braeside Rotorua Fishing ReportMike Cotter Dec 6th 2007
Over the weekend the upper reaches of the local streams opened with nothing short of perfect conditions, the sky was blue and the were streams clear. There were very good reports from anglers fishing all the newly opened areas with some anglers experiencing the best opening day in recent times. There were plenty of rainbows landed along with the odd exceptional brown over the ten pound mark. Although the streams were at times quite crowded, generally anglers took the time to be courteous and respect the rights of other anglers.
The stream mouths at Hamurana and Awahou are seeing a bit more action for both anchored fly fishermen and for those fishing from the shore. Smelt patterns are the predominate fly type being used but it is worth trying a large Royal Wolf with a Scruffy or unweighted Hare and Copper nymph suspended below. Anglers have also been having some success drifting a Brown beetle down the current line at these stream mouths during the day.
Lake Rerewhakaiitu has been quite productive for shoreline fly fishing anglers with small smelt patterns, Woolly Buggers and Kilwell No. 1 flies attracting the attention of cruising trout. There has been some good action for those harling on this lake but it appears that you need to be out early to get these good results. The lures that are consistently producing fish at the moment are the Traffic Light, Rastafarian and the Green and Gold tassies. Rabbit patterns are a favourite fly for many anglers that harl this lake over the summer months and this can be fished successfully round the shoreline in most areas of the lake.
LakeRotoiti has impressed a number of anglers over the weekend that trolled in the Gisborne Point and Emery’s Reef area and landed several fish over the three kilo mark. It seems at present that pink is the number one colour on Rotoiti with most of these fish being taken on the Eliminator and Sparkle Pink lures.
The jigging here has been spasmodic but this also came alive over the weekend and hopefully this action will continue. These fish are being enticed by a wide variety of flies from Woolly Buggers, Rabbits through to small smelt patterns. Presenting a selection of flies to these trout will increase your chance of success.
If you are thinking of fishing the areas that require a forestry permit such as the upper Rangitaiki it would pay to ring Independent Security Consultants to make sure these areas are open as the fire risk is very high at present. From
 Braeside ResortReport type: Freshwater
Report date: 09 December 07
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