How about sharing the Olinda caddis pattern? Sounds like your day, and the pattern, were a winner. Joyce
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Conrad Black <[email protected]>wrote: > G'Day, > > James and I headed out to a little river near the epicenter of > that earthquake just past. The fish would have been seriously > shaken. The banks were cracked and caved as was the road > that we walked back along. > > Beautiful, beautiful day. Perfect in all aspects for fly fishing. > > Just a hint of colour in the water from the earthquake slips > eroding away, and fish suddenly back on the feed after the > river being muddy for a week. > > I struck first, and I'll tell you up front, with a C&K. Go metric, > a 52 cm fat and feisty jack brown trout. Put the Lewis stiff load > rod for CB to the test. 1.7 kgs. People ? When you have to > put back the 55 cm and up fish, a fat 52 is a smoker. > > He took a prince nymph, a size 14 beadhead which was my weight > to get down the tail fly, a size 16 Olinda caddis. Gutted him > and he was full of Olinda sp. James switched to an 18 PT on the > tail and had at the next fish that we saw. > > Caught her and C&R'd her, she was well over 55 cm. But she took > the big Hare & Copper weight, not the little PT. > > Did I say beautiful and perfect day ? Well not quite. New Zealand > is a land of few but big fish, and after a right royal shaking and > being off the feed for a week, the big fish were back on station in > the prime lays, and the little fish under 55 cm. were hard to come by. > > Man could go hungry ;^) > > I let James at it to get a feed as I had one in the bag, and he struggled. > 5 fish on the bank, 4 C&R's and a last, that was, kind of small ? ;^) > > I went 3 for 3 with 2 C&R's due to over size. Really worried about the > rod at times and the fish pushed me on a perfect day. > > James gutted her and again, she was full of Olinda caddis. All 8 fish ? > All took the bigger nymph rather than the smaller match the hatch. > It was a good mornings fish, we each had one, so retreated to Chez James. > > We discussed it over a beer. That it is presentation, not pattern that > matters. Obviously. But I can't stop wondering about what the quake > was like for the fish. We saw the damage to the banks. > > Great day yesterday, bummer of a pack my bags day today. > Catch you later. > > Cheers ... CB > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
