Rotorua Anglers Association

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.

The third kids fishout for 2010 was held today and once again it was a wet and miserable day (See first image of Rotorua). Despite the rain 164 keen young anglers caught a trout from the fish and game pond. This fishout was shared with displays by EBOP, DOC and Rotorua District Council as part of Conservation week.

Reminder:

The last and final kids fishout for 2010 is on the 14 th November.

Below are some of the  images captured on this wet day.

Kids fishout September 2010

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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.