Fished an easier going river today to give the Cambells legs a break from heavy wading and unfortunately Denease had to take son Ben to the Doctor for a persistant stomach complaint the poor lad had been suffering with for a few days so it was left to John and Lindsay to do the fishing by themselves.

Lindsay started at 6am by herself determined to catch some of the fish plagueing the pool in front of the house at Spot X and got bust off on spinning gear – the same thing had evidently happened several times the previous evening as well!

In the first pool Lindsay got bust off quickly by a good one and then landing a smaller one under a pound.

John followed in the next pool landing a nice 3 pounder and then losing a 2 pounder, and Lindsay followed with a 4 pounder – a terrific fish for this river where they normally average around 2 and a half pounds.

Later on Lindsay managed another of around a pound and a half on nymph which also tried to take the dry.

A hard surface feeding rainbow twice took a 16 parachute adams but even after a good delay the second time managed to avoid being pricked and continued feeding but a bit more carefully.

John ended hooking but losing a nice brown over 3 pounds in pocket water dry fly nymphing.