Searun Trout Fishing

Searun trout fishing is an exciting way to fish, searuns are big and powerful trout, and make excellent eating. They are plentiful and searuns fight hard in the swift river mouth currents.

The Raikia River is a great place close to Christchurch to try for a searun trout, with numerous fish moving between the lagoon area and the sea. These searuns feed on whitebait and silveries as well as smolt from salmon, and put on condition very fast in the snow fed water as the winter melt moves into the river upstream.

Searun trout can be tempted with a large varity of methods. Spinning is always productive, try a small silver rapala fished across and down, or else stripping a silver streamer with a large 9 weight flyrod or a lure rod and weight, is prime searun method. 

Searun fishing starts in mid august onwards, and runs till november. While its possible to get searuns right through the salmon season, they are more prolific during these spring months. 

Catching a searun is awesome fun, and with the chance of a 12lb searun brown trout a very reality, who can resist.

Landbased Trout searun trout fishing spot