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| What a brace of fish! |
We arrived to find the river lower than I've ever seen it. But the quality of the fish and the fishing is as amazing as ever. Very few rivers in the world where having not had rain for this length of time could you get fishing of this quality.
Tactics have been more varied than ever. Villa Maria guides Ale, Jason and Gaston have been ringing the changes. One minute the guys are pulling small sunrays on a floater then next plumbing the depths with Skagits and 550 grain heads with T10/T14 tips.
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| That's what you fly half way around the world for! |
Evening
time is always special when the wild things start to move around the pools.
Fresh fish are continuing to run the system of every size. The strength of even
the smaller 5-6lb class is amazing. The fish in the mid teens are
throwing themselves around the pools. Bright silver and solid muscle.
We have
landed 13 fish over 20 pounds. The biggest a brace of 24 lb to Nick Moody. In
fact, Nick has the most fish so far and a very high average weight including
fish of 20lb, 21lb, 23lb, 24lb and another 24lb. His
fishing partner David Eccleston is also catching well and yesterday landed a
cracking 22lb fish.
Ailsa
and Ian have just come back to the lunch lodge after a great morning session. Hooking
14 and landing seven with constant action. It seems another run is coming
through.
Richard
and Watty are also catching well, although Richard's luck with the 20lbers is still
to change. He hooked a huge fish in Freds yesterday which came off after a hard
scrap.
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| Where else in the world can you do this? |
Really
proud the way the team have adapted to the changing conditions and it seems
that even when a pair has had had a tough session one of the other pairings
will come back with stories of battles with huge fish!
This
is one special place.
