Just finished 3 days guiding with Eric Seppi from New York. Great 3 days, apart from the fishing we shared a similar sence of humour, music, and ideas so had a great time on the river – well I did anyway. Stayed out at “Spot X” from my New Zealand Fishing Lodges page and had a ball watching the brown trout rise in the evenings after fishing not too far away for the day.

Day 1 resulted in around 20 hookups with a couple of others missed on dry fly in river 1. The trout were a good mix of rainbows and browns with a couple of smaller ones around a pound and a half ranging up to 6 and a half pounds. The biggest one noticebly bigger than the weighed 6 and half pounder slammed a cicada and tore around the pool for 5 minutes nearly coming to the net before freeing itself. The average size was around 3 pounds.

Day 2 saw us in my super scenic gin clear spot chasing bigger ones. No real big ones were landed but only 4 from 8 were landed, the biggest for the day landed was a jack just under 6 pounds and in perfect condition. Would suspect that at least one of the escapes would be bigger as the fish in here same to have a medium size of around 7 pounds normally.

Day 3 saw us on a river 4 a much smaller river with very easing wading and easy fishing as the river runs mainly through farmland. Had some great sight fishing both dry fly and nymph as well as a little blind fishing and had around 20 takes and hookups allthough the landing ration was somewhat less. Mostly browns but with a few nice rainbows. Most of the fish were in the 1.5 to 3 pound range but we missed the first three that were 4 pounds plus. Although the fish in this river are generally a little smaller there are still quite a few good ones, and it is a fantastically peaceful place to fish and provides good opportunities for sight fishing at this time of the year. The river does have a little colour but is pretty shallow so sight fishing is pretty good at this time of the year.