Tue 20 Feb 2007
I very nice day out with great weather on river 4 yesterday. It was Bruce & Lindsay’s first day ever fly fly fishing and they did well. After a frustrating start for Bruce with his first one busting him off and a nervous early strike on a dry - got a bit of a fright when a browny turned and materalized and tried to take the dry. The day got better when after loosing another nice 3 and half pound rainbow on the dry Bruce at last managed to land his first ever trout on fly which was about a 3 - 3 and a half pound brown on the nymph below the dry. As the sun got higher the wind unfortunately came up making it pretty tough for a fulla to cast out dry’s on his first day fishing but Bruce still managed to have the elite pleasure of flipping a dry to a nice brown we had been casting to for a few minutes and as his guide was just saying that the cast wasn’t long enough the hungry fella turned to the left made a bee line for the little adams, inhaled it and turned - Bruce waited for a couple of seconds perfectly timing his strike and the fight was on ending in the net across the other side of the river and downstream a bit. In the end 6 were hooked and played of which 3 broke the fly off and 3 were landed. There were also two other missed takes on dry and 2 brief hook and wriggles on nymph making around 10 touches for the day. I look forward to hopefully seeing Bruce and Lindsay in the future.