The flies on the LHS I bought at a sports shop in Puerto Varas, which is a picturesque town on the shore of Lago Llanquihue in the Chilean Lake District. Land-locked salmon and rainbow trout are caught in the lake by trolling spoons or streamer flies from small boats, motorized or rowing. Some of the streamers used this way are long and have tandem hooks, an extra one being in the tail. These are no good for casting as they tend to tangle up on the leader. The yellow rabbit fur lure is similar to the New Zealand rabbit lures but a bit longer.
A favourite fly for Taupo used to be the Red Setter lure which in its small size is simply an orange body plus brown backward slanting hackle and with a hair or fur tail. Easy to tie. The standard size 4 hook ones as depicted at top of foto 3 (well chomped by trout) work well in large rivers and small streams. Using them I have caught brownies ranging from 1 to 8 lbs in small streams in the District Fisheries. The Taupo rainbows go berserk over the Red Setter.
The DIY ones soon became more fancier with larger and long shank hooks with double hackles and trailing orange or red wool, being twice the size of the original Red Setter, but they are still deadly on the Tongariro. I suspect this means that rainbow trout, being very territorial, will snap at any fly imaginable that intrudes into their resting place when on the spawning run.
These long shank homemade lures can be tied without a vice. The rougher they are the more the trout go for them. Also for lake fishing the big lures can be cast with a spinning rod and lead ball weight. I can recommend the Red Setter and all its larger variants. Tight lines. Allano
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