Love it, you can see traffic going by and your the only one on the river. Those are some beautiful fish too!!! 

Wicked love it

Nice one mate, thats a lot of fish for the Hutt... Where you blind fishing on the whole or seeing the little slimebags through the nasty glare thats around at the mo?

20plus fish between 2 is as good as it gets.. Mainly nymph?

One you left behind from lunch time today :-)

It's got that feeling in the air alright, nice fish Tim, some lovely marked and coloured fish in the mix at present. Is that a wee wet in his gob?

Not really, good all through it's length, as usual, the higher up you go, the less fish density, but the size increases, right up into the headwaters above the weir where the fish are self-sustaining, old and large.

The lower to mid reaches hold large amounts of fish, latest figures fluctuate between 100 - 300 (large/medium) fish per km of river depending on sections.

Look for riffly heads with willow lined bank on one side and fish shallow, literally 1-3m out from the edge of the river using a small dry with a short dropper, they're quick-spitters, so be ready to rip into 'em.

Best we get out there one day John and slay some, make a change from Tarakihi!  Have heard some comments surrounding good numbers of sea runners smashing Whitebait in the lower reaches this past few weeks....

Might have a look this weekend if the rain doesn't colour the river up. They we're hooking them down below the Ava Rail bridge.

Sorry I missed your reply Andrew. This is a spider.