When summer time comes and salmon are starting to run, many people who like fishing visit Auckland. Tourists tend to know when the salmon run starts.  This may not be on purpose but they do know the best place to catch salmon is in fishing Auckland.  Auckland’s waters make their tourists even lawyers get the Auckland fishing guide and provide the tourists the best spots in Auckland for fishing. First, you have to know what kind of fish you want to catch. You can choose from different varieties of fishes like silver salmon, arctic char, steelhead, Auckland king salmon, rainbow trout, or any other fish.

The Arctic, Southwest, South central, Southeast and the interior design are the five known geographical places in Auckland. These are the sites where you can maximize your fishing expedition. You have to hire a fishing guide since you do not know the area. They may give the best spots for you and accompany you to your fishing.

Here Are Some Things You May Want To Ask From Your Guide at:
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1. You have to know how long they have been doing their work in Auckland. It is good if they have been staying there for a long time already. The reason is that they have much knowledge about the different yearly cycles of Auckland.
2. Be aware of the time you will spend during the trip. Also, make note of the time that you will need during the actual fishing. The amount that you will pay your guide might only be consumed on the time of the boat ride rather than the fishing itself.
3. Ask how much a particular guide would cost, because they have different rates depending on their skills, experiences and length of stay in their job. A guide that would cost cheaper than the average rate of the other guides might not have enough experience and skills.
4. It is recommended that you have your references. This will help you narrow down your choices in selecting a fishing guide. Most people who have been there are willing to share about how satisfied they were during the fishing vacation. They can also give you some advice on what you need to do during the adventure.
5. Remember, this is a chance for you to ask about particular issues that concern you. Do not hesitate to gather information from your guide. By this time, you should be able to have your final choice for your Auckland fishing guide that will be perfect for your plans and make the most out of your trip in Auckland.

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Pickerel fishing in New Bruswick is great fun and most of the time I use my spinning rod and plastic baits while fishing deep in the weeds. It’s just so cool to watch their wakes coming from all directions.

Every once in a while when the conditions are just right I like to get out my fly rod and try a few flies on these toothy chain pickerel. It’s a whole new feeling for fishing pickerel.

I usually tie on a pretty heavy section of mono instead of trying to use a steel leader. I lose some flies but I find it’s so much easier for to cast without the steel leader and personally I feel I get caught up in the weeds far less as well.

I have never been choosey as to which fly to use. I find the pickerel will go after just about anything but I do have more action if I use flies with a bit of bright blood red in it.

I also have, well had, a couple of brown frogs and mice that float really well and make it tough for the pickerel to ignore as they are dragged or popped across the top of the weeds, especially lily pads. Works just like it does for smallmouth bass.

I don’t think I have ever used a sinking fly on pickerel, the top water action is just too enticing for me and I am a very visual guy who loves the top water action.

Traditionally, fly fishing has been used to catch salmon and trout, but today fly fishing can catch a variety of other fish species from smallmouth and largemouth bass, to your larger saltwater fish species, such as marlin and tarpon. Unlike bait fishing where live bait is used to catch fish, artificial fly fishing flies are used to catch fish when fly fishing. The equipment used for fly fishing also differs from fishing equipment used for bait fishing. For fly fishing it is important to select the correct fly line, fly rod and flt reel before you start fishing. It is also extremely important to use the correct fly fishing flies to match the species of fish you want to catch.

An Introduction to Fly Fishing Flies

Artificial fly fishing flies are commonly used in fly fishing. Today there are many companies that produce fly fishing flies, and artificial fly fishing flies can be bought all over the world. Today, fly fishing flies are available in many different varieties, and differ in shape, color and size. Artificial flies can be made from many different materials including hairs, feathers and fur. These materials can either be natural or synthetic. Many fly fishing flies available today imitate the food that a particular fish may eat. You also get fly fishing flies that don’t imitate anything in nature.

Fly fishing flies are made with the aquatic appearance of local fish and insects in mind. The artificial fly fishing flies that you use must normally match the food that the fish species eat for the specific location that you are fishing in. Fly fishing flies can also be customized with regard to color and patterns to create flies that are suitable to your location. Many fly fishermen make their own fly fishing flies for fishing or as a hobby. To meet the different specifications of fly fishing flies required all over the world, gifted experts are employed all over the world to create artificial fly fishing flies. As a hobby, hand-crafting artificial fly fishing flies is an exciting and pleasurable pastime. Synthetic materials are more popular when it comes to creating flies.

If you are looking to purchase a quality fly fishing rod, check out the guide to Sage fly rod models.

Categories of Fly Fishing Flies

There is an incredible variety of fly fishing flies that are available. Fly fishing flies can be broken down into the following categories:

• Dry Flies – Designed to float on the water surface and imitate the adult stage of aquatic insects, or land-based insects that have fallen into the water (such as ants or beetles).
• Wet Flies – Designed to float just below the surface of the water and imitate immature aquatic insects, or drowned insects.
• Nymphs – A type of wet fly that imitates the larval form of aquatic insects.
• Streamers – A type of wet fly that imitates minnows or small fish which are the prey of larger fish.
• Surface Lures – Are used to imitate mice or frogs. Surface lures are fished in a manner to create a disturbance on the water’s surface to attract predatory fish, and are also normally very colorful.

If you are looking to purchase a fly fishing float tube, check out the guide to buying an Outcast float tube.

For more information about saltwater fly fishing gear, take a look at the news feed for Fly Fishing Elite (Feedest.com).

The Chain Pickerel is very addictive to fish and everyone I have ever introduced to chain pickerel fishing have become almost fanatical about it, even to the point where most other fishing gets put to the side for a year or two. I did it myself and still find the draw of the pickerel hard to resist long enough to fish for anything else.

If you want to make your pickerel fishing even more exciting, try using your fly rod from a float tube. So cool, so very cool.

What you don’t know what a chain pickerel is? Sorry about that, let me tell you what I know about them. It won’t take but a minute.

Who is the Chain Pickerel?

The chain pickerel is a fresh water fish related to the pike and distinguishable because of their chain like colouring where the pike is more dotted.

I am not completely sure of all the places in the world the pickerel lives but from my experience and from reading other people’s blogs I know that they live along our North American coast.

I fish them here in New Brunswick but when I lived in Ontario they called walleye by the name pickerel. Which really confused me when I moved down here.

I was just reading something the other on a forum where I guy was saying he fishing chain pickerel North Carolina. I also read on Wikipedia that they range all the way down into Florida. I always thought they only lived in northern climates, guess I learned something new.

The image above is a close up shot on the side of a chain pickerel. Forgive the quality, err lack of quality. I get a bit shakey when I am excited and believe me I get excited pickerel fishing.

The chain pickerel has a distinctive dark chain-like pattern on its greenish sides. It tends to be very dark along the top side and fades down the side to a white belly.

When I first caught a pickerel it’s head and body shape really reminded me of the pike I used to catch in Ontario.

The largest I have landed is 24″ but my buddy in the other end of my boat landed a 26″ one. Well he brought it to the boat, but made me land it. It was his first every pickerel and he wasn’t about to go near that mouth.

I have heard from others that I fish with that they can exceed 40″. Wouldn’t mind hooking into that ole girl.

What Do They Eat? Or maybe what won’t they eat?

Pickerel like to ambush smaller fish. That is what they are waiting for when I cast to them. They will also clean out of the water for a flying insect and will eat leeches, frogs and I wouldn’t want to be a small bird hitting the water to close to a pickerel.

Anything that gets in that toothy grin isn’t likely to get out. I don’t even like to clean my hands after just releasing one. I like my fingers just the way they are, all of them.

I have watched them turn and grab a bait hanging over the water immediately after releasing them. They are as fast as lightning. Scary stuff, exciting stuff.

What I Use To Get Their Attention

After fishing pickerel for more than a decade or two I have a few confidence baits but I do try all kinds of things. I usually start out with a confidence bait and when I see there is action I try the new things.

When I am in open water, or very sparse weeds I like Rapala baits.

I do use my spinning rod most of the time, again sticking to the weeds.

When using my spinning gear I still stick to the weeds most of time. I cast to bother the weeds and the open water but stay close to the edges.

As for the baits well everyone has their favorite confidence baits that seem to work most of the time year after year. I can’t give out the name of that particular bait but I can tell you it’s soft plastic.

Jamie, keep tight lipped on this one, okay?

I like using frogs but have only caught a few. I asked about this on a forum and they were saying that I hadn’t purchased the right kind of frog.

I know they like frogs and have had hundreds of hits and explosions, just only ever hooked a very few of them. I still had a blast throwing it out there and watching the action. It never gets old.

Jamie had the right frogs this year but I didn’t have the right hook length for that one. I will have some of them thar frogs and appropriate hooks for next season.

As for other lures, well if you have bass lures, then you have what it takes to catch pickerel, just be aware that pickerel have teeth that will slice and dice baits. Think about pinching down the barbs as pickerel can get the lures pretty far back into their throats. Barbless hooks are easy to remove.

It’s wise to use steel leaders as their teeth are like razor blades.

Tip I Learned From Kerry Jones: If you use the head cement used for tying flies you can make the steel lead ends smoother so they pull through the weeds better.

I have watched pickerel come clear right out of the water and smash down on baits just like a big ole bass does. Those are the times I wish I had a head cam. And is your buddy ever looking when that happens. Nope, he’s busy starring at his own line.

I like to use my fly rod and I like getting into the weeds. For that I have to use big hairy bass bugs and frogs. It’s heart stopping.

When the weeds are sparse or it’s early spring I will use a Mickey Finn or any bright coloured streamer. I like running it just an inch or two below the surface so I can still see the fly. I really love to see the strike.

I tend to get worn out much quicker using my fly rod, so I always bring my spinning gear with me so I can continue even when I am beat.

Chain Pickerel Scientific Detail on Wikipedia

Jamie and I managed to get out for one more day on the water before fishing season ended for 2009. Well ended in the areas we fish. Thanks for the great fun this Jamie, let’s do it again some time.

The spots we fishing in at Chipman have some the best scenery and has to be one of our favorite places to fish pickerel. It’s fun to get there right at the end of the season as some times we get the biggest and badest pickerel of the year at that time.

I got up at about 5am and we planned on leaving about 6 so we would get there before day break. I was hoping to get a few images of mist on the water but all we got was rain on the water.

There was a low pressure system moving through which tends to shut the fishing down and that seemed to be the case for the day.

The temperature was perfect and the rain stopped after an hour or so and the wind stayed away. I started to feel a little better about the fishing as the water was becoming like glass.

It wasn’t until after I got home and saw some of the pictures we took. I am sure my apparel had them in stitches or maybe they were just blinded by it.

When I finally landed a pickerel I am sure I heard it laughing and saying something like ‘Hey, your mamma dresses you funny.‘

Well it could have been Jamie saying that under his breath though.

It took a long while before they started to move, perhaps it had something to do with the water temperature being so low. They probably didn’t want to get out from under their blanket of weeds.

By about 9 am I started to get a little action but they were avoiding Jamie. I had a few turn for the offering but that’s about all.

I had slowed the retreive to almost a crawl hoping they would get some life but nothing was happening. Then I decided to pull the plastic worm at high speed.

It was pretty cool. I saw a huge mouth coming straight at me but it was too far away and the bait was too close to the canoe before he arrived.

Instantly we were pulling the baits through the water much faster and starting to see a bit more movement.

I guess they just had to stop laughing long enough to start chasing our baits.

Any day on the water is better than a day away from the water so I am already looking forward to opening day 2010.

Atlantic Salmon Caught on a Yellow Winged Butterfly

When I walk into a fly fishing shop here in New Brunswick it’s usually all about the Atlantic salmon and the selection just blows me away. I can spend hours just staring at them.

I have a few books on tying artificial flies but the selection is limited and most are trout flies. Not really what I am looking for when Atlantic salmon fishing, although I have caught some nice salmon on tiny trout flies.

Mickey Finn Streamers For Spring Salmon

I like using streamers in the early spring when the black salmon are moving, right up until the fresh run salmon move into the system and then I change flies.

My brother-in-law introduced me to the Mickey Finn streamer and I would have to say the Mickey Finn is the fly I use the most during the spring.

I guess that’s because it’s the one that produces the most salmon for me, otherwise I would have ditched that fly years ago.

Yellow Winged Red Butt Butterflies

Almost any time of year I get out my butterflies, especially those with a red butt, they just seem to work better for me.

Just a few weeks ago I took a friend Atlantic salmon fishing on the Caines and in less than an hour I had a salmon landed and it was on a yellow winged red butt butterfly.

It’s a fly I have great confidence in and the salmon love to slam it with all the power they have.

The two flies I mentioned above have caught a lot of salmon over the years and that’s just two flies. Imagine what you could do with 4 flies?

It might sound a bit scary fly fishing for pickerel and it can be but that’s part of the excitement. Here in New Brunswick we don’t have pickerel that get huge like some of the Northern Pike I have seen but they think they are. Again, that’s part of the excitement of using your fly rod for these crazy fish.

Fly fishing open water isn’t much of a challenge but still more of a challenge that using your bait caster or heavy action spinning gear. The challenge really comes into view when you try fishing deep in the weeds for Chain Pickerel.

It’s a lot tougher keeping your arm from jerking the line when you are in the weeds and can see action coming from all sides. Very exciting.

What Flies To Use For Pickerel

Ha, that was a trick title, as pickerel will go for just about anything. I don’t even like putting my fingers in the water to wash them off after releasing a pickerel because I they may just come back and bite a couple off.

I don’t take small flies. They just get busted up way too fast. I much prefer to take some of the dry flies I use for Atlantic salmon and smallmouth bass.

They don’t last long either but I usually land a few pickerel before they have been torn to little fibers.

In the early season when the weeds are quite breaking the surface I like to use some of the streamers I use for Atlantic salmon in the spring. I retrieve them very fast to keep them near the top of the water.

I have never out stripped a pickerel. No matter how fast I retrieve that fly the pickerel that wants it out runs it quite easily.

When the weeds start breaking the surface I usually put the streamers away and get out the big deer hair bugs I use for bass.

I know a couple of spots that have very small pickerel. The bodies of water they are in are shallow so most places work great with big, or little dry flies and you don’t get anything that will bust up your gear.

These type of pickerel spots are great for testing fly fishing equipment.