3 Days Camping Fishing Alone in New Zealand .

Well g'day guys, so I'm out here in the beautiful New Zealand wilderness. I've just travelled by boat deep up into fjordland and I've just been dropped off on this remote beach where I'm going to spend the next three days exploring this beautiful place. I've got my park raft with me as well as my fishing gear so we'll be paddling around the end of this fjord exploring the lake as well as rivers in search for some monster trout. I think it's going to be an incredible trip like just have a look at this place it is absolutely insane so I think you guys are going to love this one. Oh man I'm so excited for this trip although I'm getting eaten alive by sandflies already I literally just got here and they're absolutely swarming me they're even like going through my hair it's gonna be a pretty brutal couple of days but it's a price you gotta pay to spend some time in a place like this so I'll cop it. Have we got these sandflies they are horrendous there's thousands of them oh I just look at my hand that is insane and they're all biting oh man these things are nasty this is the worst I've ever seen them. Now in terms of the weather for this trip we are meant to get some rain coming this afternoon and it's meant to be potentially pretty heavy tonight tomorrow's meant to be pretty clear and then the day after we're also meant to get some rain so what I might do first might get camp set up so that way if it does rain unless I've got someone to shelter obviously this beach is going to make a perfect campsite there's a nice flat section just there so I'll grab the tent we'll get that set up. The sandflies oh this is gnarly it's gonna be a tough three days that's for sure well one thing that I cannot get over is just how beautiful the New Zealand bush is it's just so lush it's so green and vibrant and it's just like plants growing on top of plants growing on top of plants all these trees are just covered in moss with a little little sort of plants growing out of the moss it's just absolutely beautiful it's a very special forest I've really come to love New Zealand over the last couple of years like if you're a nature lover like myself especially if you love plants this place is like heaven it's just all the ferns it's absolutely beautiful all right while the conditions are still nice how about we get the raft pumped up and go for a bit of a paddle and a fish well hopefully the sandflies don't follow me out here well the wind started to pick up now as well and of course it's starting to get a little bit of rain but what we'll do is we'll just sort of like go for a bit of a paddle around the end of this fjord here and do a bit of fishing we might even head up the river there as well and see if the fishing's any good up there it's just nice to be back down the water it's a very beautiful place to go for a paddle so just chucked one of these Tassie Devil lures on so we'll just draw this did he get off oh no had a big strike damn it we lost him well at least that's promising man that is one hell of a backdrop honestly it feels like the land before time imagine like dinosaurs around these lands looking up that valley is so beautiful man what a hell of a place we losing oh no not again oh it's had the biggest strike i swear he was on he was on this happened last time i was in NZ and i was using this Tassie lure you tend to get big strikes but they never hook up so frustrating oh it's just started to rain so i might start paddling back and we'll do a bit more fishing around camp and out the front of that uh the river it's so peaceful out here makes me not want to go back to camp because i know as soon as i step on that sand i'm gonna get actually swarmed by sand flies well that rain has uh definitely set in i've just come around to the other side of the bay i just paddled past the entrance to the river and i had the Tassie Devil sort of trawling behind me but i didn't get any bites so i've just changed up to one of these little pilers and i'll have a bit of flick around here and hopefully can grab something if not they might um you go back to camp and sort of wait this rain out for the moment it's actually quite nice um being on the water in the rain like the sand flies aren't bothering me so i'm happy about that and let's just see if we can uh find a fish well it's getting pretty heavy and i haven't had a bite for a while and i'm starting to get pretty cold so i think i might head on back to camp and um yeah try and get dry and warm if the rain clears up a little bit later we can always go for a fish then well the rain is definitely set in for good though it's uh yeah pretty nice right now there's like no wind it's beautiful and calm out on the water but i'm getting pretty cold so i think i'm gonna hunker down in my tent for a bit try and get nice and warm and dry well that was a punish trying to get in like a wet tent with wet gear is hard enough for the best of days let alone when you've got a million sand flies inside the tent with you trying to like jump inside the bug net without letting all the sand flies in and also just trying to keep your bedding nice and dry and getting your wet gear off it's just chaos i've literally just spent like the last half an hour trying to kill all the sand flies that have gotten inside the bug net but we've got some dry clothes on now i think i've got most of the sand flies so yeah there's not much to do now apart from i'm here just lay down wait for the rain to stop i'll have some um yeah lunch but yeah i'm not gonna be doing a whole lot this afternoon until this um the rain bug is off so i'll speak to you guys in a bit well just woke up from my nap it's about um eight o'clock so i've been asleep for about four hours but yeah honestly like pretty much hasn't stopped raining the entire time and i think i haven't even seen the worst of it yet i did screenshot the radar yesterday or the forecast yesterday as you can see we've got some pretty heavy rain moving in at 10 o'clock tonight so not much happening tonight unfortunately um i'll probably just cook up some dinner and try and go back to bed uh the weather tomorrow is meant to be pretty nice i believe i hope you're able to get um yeah a fair bit of fishing done should be a good day tomorrow that beautiful beautiful sun far out that was a wet night that probably didn't stop raining for like gosh like 12 or 14 hours or something like i got in that tent at 3 30 yesterday had a four hour sleep woke up for three hours fell back asleep about 11 o'clock and then you just got the tent just then about eight o'clock yeah i was in the tent for a long time but uh it sure is nice sort of waking up to get some sun i just need to try and drive my tent is absolutely soaked to the bone it's always a lot of my gear but i dare say i'm not going to see that sun for quite a while until it comes over that mountain oh man so stoked it's a beautiful day today can't wait to get back out in the water and i'm here to explore the next little cove well i've broken out the big guns finally had to put the bug net on because there are just so many sandflies i don't know if you guys can see this but there are like hundreds of sandflies flying around my face they are absolutely gnarly out here but for brekky just got some granola and uh yeah some milo i'll tell you what i'm so thankful that we don't have to deal with sandflies in australia or like at least not to this level i camp all over the place and i pretty much never have issues with bugs every now and then there might be a night where i get some mosquitoes if i'm camping closer to the coast but they're nothing like this hey it actually makes like campfire fight pretty tricky like i said last night when it was pouring rain all i wanted to do is like jump under the tent get changed it was so hard to do with like just dealing with the sandflies as well it's a real challenge out here you guys can see that but that looks pretty yummy that's tasty anyway i'll finish off my brekky and we'll get camp back down and we'll jump back over water and we're off well it is a beautiful day to be out in the water today i'm so glad that sun has come out i'm a little bit late getting on the water i think it's probably getting close to 11 o'clock i just wanted to try and dry out all my gear on the beach in the sun before i hit the water so that way when i get to camp it's not very everything's not um yeah absolutely soaking wet the good thing about new zealand this time of year the sun sets around about 10 o'clock so i've still got plenty of daylight so i've just put the tazzy devil back on but i have put a single hook rather than the treble hook so hopefully have um yeah better hook up right with this all the waterfalls are definitely pumping today there's a really nice waterfall up ahead probably a little bit of a paddle but it'd be nice if we could make it over there and um yeah check it out looks pretty cool oh hook up am i on? i think we might be on oh no you're kidding again well i don't know what is happening at least i got a strike my sandflies so just paddling through the mouth of the river the water's pretty dirty and there's a lot of as well i think after all the rain last night a fair bit of stuff has uh you washed down into the lake which i'm hoping that means the fish might be a bit active and there's definitely a lot of chop about today making for a bit of a rough paddle and that's unreal it's one of the things i love about new zealand is this waterfall is absolutely everywhere i can't even see the there's literally just like a sheer cliff just going straight into the water it looks so deep let's see something a little bit like a little bit sketchy well not sketchy but a little bit uneasy about paddling over water where like you just know that it's bloody deep i think the deepest part is like about 450 meters so at times like now that you just want to hope the packraft doesn't get a puncture because if it did it would be a very very sketchy swim back and that point there the wind has picked right up there's a lot of chop but tell you what that scenery is beautiful absolutely epic what a world we live in let's go check out the view around the corner unbelievable would have to be out there one of the most beautiful places i've seen that is stunning well i think i've used pretty much every adjective imaginable to describe this place but man it's unbelievable honestly speechless there's some places like in the world you just go to and they just take your breath away and this is definitely one of them nature honestly never ceases to amazing all right let's try and brave this wind and um yeah make it over to the beach it's pretty damn windy well it's definitely giving the arms a good workout weather for a wild place this is living oh man i feel so alive right now i can't wipe this cheeky smile off my face oh man the endorphins are running have a look at that you little ripper all right we've made it to the beach we're gonna self-camp but rather than uh yeah some camp now i might just go for a bit of a paddle around the um the end of this cove here maybe up the river as well and just do a bit of fishing because uh yeah we haven't had a hold of luck the trees lining the the benches here are beautiful it looks so ancient man what a cracker of a day it is stunning it's nice and protecting this corner as well yeah a beautiful day to be out on the water well this is the part of the video where i should be catching lots of fish but it ain't happening all right we're on about bloody time what's that that's beauty hey that's a bloody keeper that's great thank you so much buddy well i am so stoked to yeah finally get one on the tally board and that is going to be a tasty dinner we're on again oh oh you're kidding bloody lost him i'm just going to paddle up the river a little bit and just uh yeah check out what's up there man what a spot around every corner this place just keeps blowing me away it is beautiful yep we're on oh it's making a big splash oh you're kidding spat the lure oh that was a good size one as well spewing well as much as it'd be nice to explore more of this river then we're going to head back and we'll get camp set up all right i've just pulled the raft up i think i've uh splattered a pretty good campsite yeah this looks nice got a good flat sort of grassy spot just up there oh looks like people have camped here before a bit of a firing and more space to yeah sell the tent this would be a nice spot so i'm just wandering around just having a look at the bush and plus looking for some um dry firewood and tinder i've just come back i'm just behind the beach here and have a go at it it's like i've just turned up the saturation volume everything is just so green it's insane like all the moss on the ground is just like overtaking everything all the fallen logs are just covered in moss you got all this um i don't know what you call this kind of like old man's beard it's just hanging from all the branches it's just it is alive this forest eh you can't even see a patch of dirt everything is just covered in it's pretty incredible like have a go at the ground it's just completely covered in this in this moss and it feels so nice to touch so spongy you would not want to get lost in here this environment feels like so alien to me like coming from australia this place like couldn't be any different and like the fact that like new zealand and australia are literally right next to each other so close yet the bush here is a world away from australian bush it's completely different like i've just been walking around trying to get some dry firewood and some tinder i can't even find any tinder like at home there would be like all these like matt rushes and bracken ferns and stuff like that that you can get nice dry tinder whereas here everything is just so green and lush there's just like no dry material to actually get the fire started all right so we're gonna get the fire started unfortunately i forgot to buy a lighter when i arrived in new zealand luckily i do have some matches i do have my ferro rod but i'm struggling to find a dry sort of tinder material so i can't really use my ferro rod so luckily i've got the matches to hopefully be able to get these dry leaves started i've had these matches sitting in my um my kit for years so i'm glad that actually i finally come in use oh man i don't even know if you guys can tell but i am covered in sand flies right now absolutely covered oh this is horrendous oh can't work in these conditions i don't know why i don't know if this is going to work a little striking sort of plate it's not doing anything it's just uh look got this little striking plate here and it's just let's just turn the matches to mush oh man honestly can you guys see how many sand flies are on me it is insane it's actually insane all right oh man oh i'm dying here i'm absolutely dying i've got one of these um storm proof matches let's see if this works this striking plates got no friction to it when i strike it against here it's just nothing's happening all right i've got one last idea which will definitely work yeah i know this is going to be cheating but i've got my um soto windmaster and it's got a little ignition just there magic well i know that's cheating but we've got to work with what we have definitely not very bushcraft of me and you might be wondering why i just don't use the the soto stove to cook up my trout and i easily could but i really want to cook it over a fire so that's what we're going to do well hopefully this smoke keeps some of the sand flies away i'm gonna douse myself in smoke smoke shower come get me guys come and get me no actually don't don't come and get me already i can notice the difference of the sand flies man have a look at that fish that's such a rich sort of pinky orange looks so good cheers guys has such a nice smoky flavor to it yum oh man i'm getting mauled alive i just can't get over how many sand flies are on me i know i keep talking about it but they are just all over me ah the price you pay to be out here eh well this is living being eaten alive by sand flies while enjoying a beautiful trout in one hell of a place it's a big eel gone after all the fish scraps that was cool i chucked the fish head just out there so he's obviously having a so i think it's about 7 30 now some might um you pop the camera away but you can't uh you're hungry away and get away from these sand flies and yeah listen to some music or a podcast so i'll see you guys in the morning well good morning as you can hear the rain's back pretty much hasn't stopped raining all night it's pretty heavy this morning as well we're getting uh picked up about 12 o'clock today i think it's about um a quarter to nine at the moment there are about a million sandflies in here with me i think every sand fly in new zealand has uh found its way inside my tent to get out of the rain so it's going to be a bit of a challenge trying to pack up camp but that's new zealand for you well i couldn't really stand to be in that tent for much longer so i was on the rain gear i've come out to brave the rain which is definitely pretty wet it's gonna be sad to leave this place it's not gonna be sad to leave the sandflies i'm happy about that but uh it is a pretty magical place here very very special all right guys more packed up camp and that boat should be here any minute now to pick me up so yeah it's been a hell of a trip hey i feel like new zealand has thrown absolutely everything at me the last couple of days like from heavy rain to horrendous sandflies but then to have like yesterday where it's just beautiful sunny weather looking into that yeah lovely trout which are cooked up for dinner and then yeah just exploring this incredible landscape it's been a yeah one hell of a trip so i really hope you guys enjoyed this video if you guys did make sure you check out my other new zealand video which i'll leave a link up here and if you guys are new to the channel i would absolutely love you guys would consider subscribing but yeah anyway until next time guys