Twizel Canal Fishing 2022 - Winter Salmon Fishing at its best! PLUS Lures & Tips 

Cheers man, good luck with the fishing!!

Thankyou very much! Really appreciate it, one of my fav locations!! 🙌🙏

Thankyou bro, cheers 🤙

They were phenomenal eating bro!! The flatties were living like kings haha, much appreciated brother!!

Cheers mate!!

Thankyou brother, much appreciated🙌!!

Cheers mate, much appreciated!!

Cheers bro Thankyou, ahh I see hopefully you get some time off soon, fingers crossed we’ll see you out there! Good luck!!

Thankyou, was an epic trip!

Thankyou so much, really appreciate that!! Change of light would definitely be the best time just as the sun comes up or just as it sets. It can get slow during the day but they will still eat if it’s convenient for them, so mix it up, use the current to your advantage and with some luck your reel will scream off. Change of lights the best time, but just getting your line in the water increases your chances more than those who only wait for the light to change. If your heading there, good luck!! 🤙

Cheers man 🤙

Thankyou brother🙌🤙

Cheers bro, always love getting to the canals, such an epic fishery!!

@@FFA-Official. yeah mate same thing

@@FFA-Official. hey mate do ya do fly fishing? If so have any recommendations for flies to tie

I do a bit bro, it depends where your fishing and what time of year, if you head to the canals try some egg patterns, soft eggs with a vail do very well egg rolling for the big trout!

@@FFA-Official. yeah smart T the moment I'm tieing nymphs and tied some drys but yeah

That’s gutting!! I’ve done the same thing, fell off my seat then the wind blew the car door closed. Unlucky, you might be able to get a replacement part that will be cheaper than a new rod!

Thankyou, sounds like a wise move, before the sun came up all the rod eyes would freeze over with every retrieve!

Your bang on with the rules there mate, however I didn’t fish after landing my 2. This was shot over a few days but there were never 2 in the bin with a wet lure 🤙

Yeah mate your spot on, realised that one just a little too late 😂

Yeah messed that up, someone caught that earlier in the comments, again apologies!!

Sure you will smash it in June, Winter canal trips are epic. Just watch the roads ❄️

Hey guys, just the cages directly up from the Tekapo Bowl. The fish are everywhere so move around to find where they’re holding on the day. Hope that helps, cheers guys!

Yeah, it’s an Okuma - Nanomatrix 2-5kg rod and I was running 6lb braid to 6lb deception leader. I’ve had luck with up to 12lb leader, but you seem to get more hits with the lighter stuff, especially when the suns out and it’s not murky. Good luck!!

@@FFA-Official. Thanks we are heading to the Twizel canals this winter so this helped out a lot. :)

Exciting!! Hit the change of light, good luck!!

@@FFA-Official. thanks I caught my first sea run salmon yesterday it was a 10 pounder so I'm pretty stocked about that.

Wicked! Great to hear, keep it up!!

I know man, those ‘freshwater’ nets aren’t designed for these canal fish haha

Yes spot on, always wet hands and invest in some gloves that are safe for freshwater fish!

Thankyou brother! They are chinook/king salmon. They are manmade canals made for hydroelectricity but have some of the biggest trout in the world, they barely have to move and the ecosystem is so rich they just sit there eating. There’s also salmon farms in the canals and sometimes they escape and escapees can breed. There’s 4 seasons down there but winter really goes off, before the sun comes up in winter I’ve fished in -5 degrees and in summer it can hit 30 (Celsius, I’ll let you do the conversion haha). It’s a beautiful spot clean water clean air, snowy mountains and great fishing! I’d love to get to the states at some point but I’m in the same boat, it’s an epic spot though and might be worth a trip in the future! Thanks for the comment bro!

those chinooks are small but the rainbows they catch in there are massive