I went over the Coast with a mate in early October to fish the mouth of the Hokitika River, and only caught 1 kg in a week. By all accounts the East Coast fished better that the West this season, with some great runs in the The Waimak.
You can, but there is often better scooping opportunities down at the mouth were the set netters can't go. That being said, there can be places upstream where it is only possible to fish with a scoop net. There were few places on the Grey River (Greymouth) on the rocks that use to be (and probably still are) hotly contested for scoopers due to the way the whitebait runs up the river and comes in close to those rocks...
@@fiordlander Hi there. Thanks for the reply. I had a terrible season on the Aorere. I have always wanted to have a fish in Westland, so next season, God willing, I will head down there. Probably like you do for a week or so. Keep up the videos. They are great
Absolutely. We never stopped going out over the last year - I just took a break from editing the videos that we shot, so none got put up on RU-vid. There is a backlog of videos to do - we have trout fishing footage from Lake Te Anau (different trips to North Fiord and the head of the lake), Lake Gunn, Lake Ada (Milford Track), North Mavora and Lake Paringa coming soonish.
