More success with South Island fishing!!

Before heading back up North, we just couldn't resist doing a few more touristy things...so we decided to do the worlds first ever Bungy Jump, a Sky Dive, white water rafting and the shotover JetBoat! The Bungy Jump was definitely the scariest out of all the activities! Absolutely amazing though...along with the Sky Diving! that was quite scary but myself and Alex both agree we loved every second of it!! The white water rafting I would recommend to anybody...amazing experience and would love to do it again...and the same with the shotover JetBoat! Travelling 80 kilometres an hour to a wall and then turning at the last second sure does get that heart pumping! was a good wake-up call for sure!!

After finishing the activities our first stop was Diamond Lake and the weather conditions were just perfect!! There was no wind and it was nice and sunny...warm with insects hatching off! Plenty of damsels, dragon flies, blow flies, bumble bees and cicada! spotting the fish was so much easier than on a windy day and we were able to catch a fish each was really good fun!! Catching fish on an Orange Stimulator and Green Stimulator, missing a fish on a Black Humpy.

Heading away from Diamond Lake we headed towards the Ahuriri where we did some free camping for a couple of days! thankfully the weather was good to us and again the fish were feeding! Heading from Omarama we saw a bridge that crossed over the Ahuriri and decided to stop and have a little look, seeing about 5 fish off the bridge almost instantly, thats when we decided to stop and stay for a couple of nights! In the morning we headed out to try and catch a couple...which turned out to be about 20 between us with Alex catching a lovely 4lb Brown Trout which took a size 10 black tungsten pheasant tail! Again seeing more fish than we caught, but the sport was great! Lovely river and amazing settings too!

After having the success we did on Ahuriri we decided to head off further North and travelled to Twizel. After stopping off for a quick pie and finding out some more local information we decided to head to the Tekapo canal and have a go around one of the Salmon Farms...only to see if we could catch the biggest fish of the trip so far! I set up with a floating line with two large lures on, whilst Alex set up with an intermediate with two large lures on also. Within minutes Alex had takes and after losing a fish he was more than determined to catch one! I lost one along the way as well! After around 30 minutes Alex managed to land his first one of many! Sharing just the one rod we had tremendour success! After seeing nobody else catching a fish we thought we did well to get a couple each! But the biggest was still to come! Hooking into a fish close by and not seeing it for about 2 minutes, I knew it was a big fish! finally dragging it up to the surfice we could see it was a pretty big fish...the only thing we had to do was land it!! 5 minutes later it was in the net! We estimate it was a rainbow around 11-12lbs!! not the nicest fish of the trip but the biggest by about 4lbs!

Travelling further up North we headed to the Rangitata, just past Geraldine on the Cantebury Plains. After opening numerous gates, hitting rocks the size of boulders, scratching the car a little, driving a little more and avoiding the cattle we finally made it to the riverside! The sun was shining and the weather didn't seem to be too bad! Then we stepped out of the car and realised the wind was about as powerful as when we jumped out of the Sky Diving plane!! It was blowing at about 80-100 ks/h...but wanting to fish the river so badly we just carried on without a care in the world! The river just looked fantastic...when we put the pictures up you'll understand why we fished it! Alex tried his best to cast into the wind but everytime it just ended up at his feet! So I decided to go with a couple of streamers! Only just managing to get a cast across the river we both struggled away for the first hour! Alex decided he had had enough, so sat down on the edge of the river with his line being dragged under in all directions! Just before he shouted over to me that he had one on, I missed one about 3lbs!! Absolutely gutted...but at the same time was so happy Alex had caught one! Carrying on through the day we had success on huge size 6 stoneflies! Great success again on another South Island River!

The plan is now to keep heading North as we leave the South Island in a week and two days! Hoping to fish the Waimakariri, the Arnold river and the Broken river on the way back up North and then we will hopefully work for about 4 days around Nelson and earn some money! We will add pictures as soon as we can!! Ciao for now guys!!