After having a tough fishing on my home river on Friday, it was kind of hard to choose which river I should go fishing on Sunday. There were a couple of options came through in my mind. And also, because of the Easter holiday week, the river water flow web site was not kept updating as usual. It was unable to check the river flows.
But eventually, I decided to go back to my home river hoping the river water turning back to clear after nearly 40 hours since I left the river on Friday.
As I arrived, the river water was getting lower even though it was still a bit higher, and the colour was getting better. Generally looked more fishable than Friday.
And then, next day, on Easter Monday, I went back to the river again to fish different part of the middle reach half a day.
そして翌日、イースターマンデイ、中流域の別の場所を半日やりに川にまた戻った。
I have been here only once before.
ここには以前、一度だけ来たことがある。
The first fish was a good strong one.
1本目は強くていいヤツでした。
Good-looking run.
いい流れだ。
The river was kind of quiet till warm northerly came down. But once it started to blow around 4pm, I got lots of bites.
暖かい北風が吹き始めるまで川は静かだったけど、午後４時くらいに吹き始めてからはバイトが頻発。
Unfortunately, I dropped a couple of good ones...
残念ながら、いいヤツを２つ落としてしまった...
"Bugger!!!"
クソーー！！！
But I could land this beauty after that.
でもその後このきれいなやつを捕れた。
Really nice autumn colour fish.
めっちくちゃキレイな秋色の魚。
Can't stop taking photos.
写真を撮る手が止まらない。
Just keep getting bites!
バイトが続く！
Got a good bag, 8 fish in 5 hours fishing.
５時間で８匹のいい釣果。
I think that Easter is one of the best time of the year for fishing in NZ as long as the weather is good and it was the same in the North Island as well. I fished well on both rivers and lakes in Rotorua in the North two years ago. The problem is a lot of people out there because it's a long weekend and you may get annoying traffic jam. But less people here, in Otago means less annoying which is good!
