The perks of high water

As they do everywhere, after a NZ monsoon and heavy, high water, trout move to the edges and tailouts. The good news in NZ is that clear water comes 12 hours after a heavy rain of 100 - 200mm dumped in a day, where back home that kind of rain could wipe a river like the Red Deer for 10 days. The trout above was caught the morning after a rain event, in near gin clear water, holding a foot from the bank. It was sighted and a flip of a 20 foot cast with a small nymph, and the fish took, no question. 15 feet in front of it another trout was caught in the same fashion. The frustrations of losing a day to rain sometimes gives the gift of gaining less wary trout. Such is life on the west coast.