Just finished two great days guiding with Paul Semour and Mark Hayes who work for the Attorney Generals Office for the Australian government. Paul had had a day or so’s fly fishing previously and it was Marks first time with fly rod in hand. After flying into Auckland airport at 6:30 saturday morning they arrived at Spot X (on my lodges pages) at around 10am and we started fishing at around noon on river 4 beat 4. Mark started by loosing two rainbows and then followed up by landing a couple of nice ones of around 2 and 3 pounds. Paul then followed with a lost rainbow of unknown size and then missed 3 browns on dry fly that sucked down the 16pa and 14kq – after a good delay they still failed to hook. 1 of the browns even sucked down the fly twice in one drift. Am guessing slight drag and bad luck caused the failied hookups. Shortly after, Paul lost another good brown on nymph – all the browns were in the 3 to 5 pound range, Paul finally lost another rainbow to end the day on an unlucky blank.

The following day was overcast and a little drizzly and we fished beat 5 of the same river. This time Paul got on the board early with a nice 4 and a half pound brown. During the course of the day the guys had a ball hooking around 20 trout mainly rainbows of which half were reasonable sized fish around 2 to 3 and a half pounds mainly and a few smaller ones as well. By the end, both Paul and Mark were casting well and I think they would have loved to have had more time over here fishing. I look forward to their return.