Rotorua Anglers Association

The first session is planned for Monday 31/1 (yes Anniversary day) from 7pm at the clubrooms. 

Shaun is going to demo a couple of damsel patterns ahead of the February club trip to the big “O” 

As most of you will know the damsel hatches on the big “O” can be prolific and the trout love nothing better than dining out on these little beasties. The trout can really “key” into damsels and these feeding fish can be tempting by casting and slowly retrieving a well placed nymph or suspending a nymph under a small indicator and drifting the fly around the weed beds. 

As you’ll see from the pics of the fly it’s really important to have some olive thread, as this forms the body of the fly. Please make sure you have some for the 31^st. Shaun recommends the Uni 8/0 thread in olive. 

See you there.

Shauns Damsel

Somebody will demo a  “yet to be named fly”. This “yet to be named fly” is very effective  within the Rotorua fishery.  Somebody will demo this fly and everybody will know somebody but  nobody will know that somebody until the demo night.

Be there or be fishless

At the clubrooms 7.00 pm

John McCarron will demo a wee midge emerger pattern.

Midge emerger patterns imitate the transitional stage between the midge pupa and adult midge.

 Midge emergers are a relatively new category of fishing flies.  Midges at certain times of the year are so abundant that they become an important  trout food and as a result these very effective flies have been developed.

These flies can be used on both rivers and lakes, and also tailwaters where midges can be  abundant.

John has had a lot of fun fooling fish on Aniwhenua with these little imatations!

At the clubrooms 7.00 pm.

Smelt are an important part of the trouts diet within the Rotorua lakes. They form dense shoals in our local lakes and also as they enter shallow water to spawn. The trout take advantage of these shoals to gorge themselves and in doing so make themselves available to anglers. Eddie Bowman will demonstrate a little successful smelt fly that imitates  the immature smelt that are abundant in our lakes in summer and early autumn. 

smelt

At the clubrooms 7.00 pm.

Trichoptera or Caddisflies are a diverse group with hundreds of different species. These consist of  large predatory species, a variety of cased species  to smaller cased algae feeders. Most species have a life cycle of approximately one year and are therefore relatively abundant year round depending on local conditions prevailing at the time. The trout will therefore take avantage of this abundance and for most of the year caddis will appear in the diet. It makes sense to have a few caddis imatations in the fly box.

 Shaun Wyatt will demo one of these imatations.

This fly is successful in local streams like the Nogongotaha, Waititi and also local stream mouths in the summer time.

At the clubrooms 7 pm.