After a
relaxing night without meat poisoning we got up to fish the Mataura – on a
Sunday! Before that Tobias had its first close encounter with a close to adult
lamb. He enjoyed it and was excited.
Arriving on
the access the picture was unbelievable: NO other car, no other fisherman. So
we could work our way upstream, less fish than the last time but still some that
went for the fly. Adams, standard nymph etc. I spooked unfortunately a couple
of actively feeding fish. So did Ines with a pot of three fish. No score for
her so no pictures ; ).
I was lucky to manage an unbelievable unlikely cast to place the fly in a window the
size of a plate between trunks, the fly was literally screwed in that place and
the fish took it.
A nice family fishing day!
Dinner:
same procedure as last day. Most likely a different bottle of red.
The other
day I went to fish a little downstream and drove there by the car – I drove
exactly to the next access point just 1,5km down the road. Not a wise decision,
as it turned out I would have to walk that way anyway to fetch the car after
fishing upstream. So letting the car sleep would habve been more logic. I
caught a couple around 3-4,5lbs. Of note was one real decent fish of close to 6lbs
that took my fly from an awkward casting position. Just short before the cast I
discovered a very deep hole exactly left to me covered with grass. The fish
took, I tried to take care of the line warped around my arm and avoided successfully not to fall in the
hole, slowly sliding down the high bank to the water, fish still on – shoot –
no he was gone. These kinds of fish are the ones that gona stick much longer to
your memory than the other ones caught without any obstacles ore curios casts.
On the way
back from the exit above Naylor House I walked down past the house, where I
could see Ines and Tobias on the terrace in the sun. They enjoyed the morning
at the house.
We packed our belongings and set course towards a stream in
central Otago. The stream mentioned earlier, that back then was fished by Bruce
with his client by chopper as the landowner seems to be reluctant to allow
access to guided parties. 3F as a bonus - we got access from the landowner I
called beforehand. With high anticipation we hit the road!
