Now a week since we left the UK for New Zealand and with it came our first outing on a New Zealand river, the Waihou River just south of the town of Tirau. As seems to be the case with this trip we once again suffered errors but today it was only the fact that between the 3 of us none of us managed to take a camera!!!
We were taken to the river by Neil, he is an international representative of the New Zealand fly fishing team and is in this years commonwealth team. The river, which was decieving in both depth and flow was just full of small wild rainbow trout around half a pound, all 3 of us had at least 50fish each, Lewis landing the biggest of around 1.5lb. No monsters on our first outing but a good start!
Another great thing that happened today was that we got a car for $1100, $900 under our limit which is great!! (pics will be up tommorrow).
that is all for now!!
Alex Jardine
Alex Jardine
- Alex
- United Kingdom
- is 19 and has represented the England Youth Flyfishing team in both home internationals and youth world internationals winning several medals, and has fished different countries including the USA, the Czech Republic, and New Zealand. He intends to become a guide, and has fishing orientated background having been a fishery manager, fishing guide and aiding the contributions to angling publications.
Lewis Hendrie
Lisa Isles
1 comment:
Hi Alex,
Sitting here in a rain-soaked Aberfeldy, Mark B just back from Cuba and all set for a meeting with your dad.
All the best to you in NZ.
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