New Zealand Sabbatical

After more than a dozen trips to various rivers, I finally caught fish. Don, pictured along the slippery slope of the Rakaia River, is the guide who took me out on his home waters one day before salmon season closed. We began the day spin casting for king salmon and on the first cast I caught a rainbow trout. It was 4 hours later that I caught my second and last fish, another rainbow trout (picture #2) using my preferred method of fly-fishing. Winds then whipped up so we retreated to a large farm pond and saw trout and salmon cruising in gin clear water. We had fish following our lures but not biting which is ok considering I would have released them alive as I did the two I landed.