Fly Fishing on the Coast

Today was a looooong day. We wanted to set up on the west coast for our final 10 days. We decided to explore a river on the West Coast called the Moeraki River. Karen and I hiked down a dried up creek that had some bush bashing near our river. Once we set up our rods, we spied a nice 4 pound brown busily feeding. I cast my fly over the brown and he quickly hit my dry fly. One cast, one nice trout. That was a nice way to forget the 350 km drive. The very next pool had just about the same story. Karen then was working her way up a braid in today's river and caught a long brown trout that needed to gain some weight. We saw few fish today but the water was a beautiful emerald green and the weather was picture perfect. We did get reaquainted with those pesky sand flies. They are nasty creatures.

After fishing we high tailed it back to Hokitika. We phoned ahead to secure our spot at a Holiday Park we have used before. The manager left a note on our cabin about the crazy Canadian fly fishers. We were tired as we ate our supper at 11 p.m.

Tomorrow, we sleep in. There is nasty weather on the way. Darn!