Thread: Catch Any Trout Today?

Bit of Central NI fun on a back country river, great trip away with an old hunting mate exploring a new river to me.

Stayed in some old shearers quarters on a farm a few kms from the river and had a chat with a few of the locals who live in a great part of the country. Got shown around the 4000 acre farm that was an great few hours with the farmer manager showing us his farm thats now gone back to bees. Big steep country thats best mustered with horse and dogs, the extent of the marginal back country and and the amount of work required was pretty amazing, a lot of blood sweat and tears have been lost in that country for sure.

Few trout caught over the 4 days, not as many as we would have liked but still enough to keep it interesting, all caught on double nymph rig with the unweighted doing the most damage, H&C's and stonefly imitations working for me.

Boulder strewn river made wading hard work, deep pools and new runs around every corner keep us pushing up river, the heads of the pools fished better



feisty rainbows made for some great scraps





That indicator dipping to get the mind racing, whats on the end of the line. jumping fish playing dirty makes for some fun times, I lost a few fish each day.