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I remember catching a 9lb fish in the river just upstream from the mouth fishing with the old man. I would have been 10 or 11. Quite a good hole with 4 or 5 others fishing there. Buggers just laughed...

Yes, I remember well those days down the Rakaia mouth. 25 - 35 pound fish were the norm. Shoulder to shoulder with surprisingly few tangles, and Kahawai were a bloody nuisance