Success

After Christmas I took a journey to Cromwell and on the way back drove a short distance up the Ahuriri.

The day was awesome and river looked fantastic. Due to time constraints I didn't go to far up, only about 5km, and blind-fished downstream in some long, wide, knee-deep, warm riffles. I caught a 0.2kg trout on a Mrs Simpson streamer above a heavily weighted stone fly nymph. An even smaller trout self-released just after I got it out of the water. It took the stone fly.

The first larger fish didn't fight much and I thought I had snagged a rock. It ruined the Mrs Simpson.

I thought the decision to downstream a streamer and a nymph was unusual but it worked! I stripped a lot of line and used the current to take it hither and thither.

Next time I will try further up the river.