As people in Dunedin told me that the last summer was awful, I was not expecting such a dry weather for this summer, but actually, it has been so nice and beautiful though...
Fishing has been not easy at rivers because of the hot and dry weather resulting low river water flow, however nymphing methods are still working well, especially European style nymphing is.
If I don't see any rising fish today, it is going to be another summer nymphing day for sure.
Due to low river water, productive pieces of the river are limited at the moment. These seem to be pools with a ripple flowing into, where the water holds enough oxygen in and fish comfortably stay and feed. So, once you could find one of those good pieces, you could possibly catch multi-number of fish at the same spot.
Czech nymphing worked well from the beginning, and my fishing went exacly what I was thinking.
I caught four jacks in weight range of 2-3lb, five hens of 1-2lb ones and two little ones that I could not tell whether jacks or hens, eleven fish all together.
At this pool, I encounterd a school of 20-30 browns, and took two out of the school.
The schooling fish were not that easy because they were quickly moving aroud, unlikely to stop often like a solo cruising fish that moves slowly searching for foods.
The best fish of the day, a nice jack.
Such a nice fish, awesome colour.
I was very happy able to land this perfect beauty!
Another beautiful day but it was quite tough to fish in the afternoon because of the heat.
The last two fish of the day were on dropper nymphs down the dry fly.
I had a big fun catching many fish, even though I could not get a big one again as well as no dry fly action.
