When it comes to your weapon of choice, I only have experience in catching tigers by fly fishing, so if you’re a specialist spin fisherman, I don’t have a lot of advice for you – although a lot of the principles I am about to discuss will still be relevant to targeting tigers, whatever your specialist technique.Īfter a lot of trial and error, I’ve found that my six weight Maxcatch Sky Gold rod and Sparta reel, used with an eight weight intermediate sinking line, has been by far my most successful setup. This process repeated until he finally committed to the fourth or fifth cast, and it was all on! My first tiger trout shot out of the reeds to hit my fly and I can remember as clear as day the trout swiping at my fly and missing, and then proceeding to swim directly back into the same reed it came out of. That’s when having a small vessel is great as you can reach all the nooks and crannies that these fish seem to wait in. They lie and wait in oxygen weed, reeds, fallen trees and anything else that gives them a good place to hide. I’ve found that habitat is also critical to tiger trout. A small boat or kayak is very super beneficial to your success-rate when targeting this species. The lake is quite difficult to fish from the edge as there is a lot of either vegetation or steep cliff. Targeting tigers from a boat seems to be generally more effective. I’ve put this down to the limitations that come with being a purely landbased fisherman. I have been targeting tiger trout for two years now and have only landed a handful, with the most successful outings happening recently. Tigers are a sterile breed, so don’t feed up large in March to late May in preparation for spawning like rainbows do. I can only guess that the rainbow trout have moved into recovery mode, which lets the tigers roam free. I’m unsure why tigers seem to be more easily targeted around this time of year. With spring upon us and the itch to feel a tight line for us trout fishos becoming ever so agitating, the time is now to target a tiger! The “open season” has been well and truly closed for some time and winter has been its cold and damp self.
It’s been a long and hard winter but luckily this is one of the better times of the year to catch a tiger. However, there are rumours that tigers live amongst browns and brooks in a stream and couple of lakes in the South Island – but this is something I can’t confirm. Luckily, I live just 20 minutes away from this North Island location. The tiger trout can only be found in one place in NZ. They are golden in colour and also have tiger-like stripes which give off a holographic look. For those that don’t know, the tiger trout (Salmo trutta × Salvelinus fontinalis) is a sterile, hybrid of the brown trout (Salmo trutta) and the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), and in my opinion, is the most elusive trout that can be targeted in the country.
If you’re an avid trout fisher, you would have heard whispers about the “tiger trout”.
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