We've been trying to get on an unnamed spring creek for a while. Every time we're in the valley, we stop in at the land owner's house and give a knock. So far, in 3 attempts, nobody's been around. Interestingly, each time we stop in, we run into someone else and we give them a chat. Everyone is so friendly. On each visit, in chatting with people and finding out something about them and their lives, they give us a good tip to do with spring creek fishing. The milk collecting truck driver put us on to a tiny spring creek where AJ & I landed some nice browns and rainbows, a mail man put us on to a beautiful spring creek in a side valley. The valley is full of springs and some real hidden gems. Yesterday we were again told by a visiting farm hand about where to fish, pointing out exactly where to fish another spring creek. We did exactly as told and - what do you know? - he was bang on right about the property and the creek.
The thing about this country is that the people enjoy their way of life and are prideful in their ways, their land, and what they have. It may not be as we do things in Canada, but once you poke around you begin to understand why things are different, that we can't judge based on our society. Their pride isn't prideful either, it's pride in "this is the way it is", which is different than home in a few ways. Things are just different. In turn, we've come to hear the subtleties in conversations with people and pick up on what's being said. We've managed to make a few friends and have open invitations to come back to fish pretty much every piece of property we've stopped in to ask permission. It's a nice thing.
We had a great day again yesterday, fishing a spring creek we'd not known about previously. Hats off to Andy for tracking down Wes, to make sure we could fish there. :)
Above - Dave ties into a good fish that we sighted cruising the weeds, picking off nymphs.
Below - A nice brown to hand.
Above - AJ crossing the creek. Look out for the eels...
Below - A 7 pound brown doing laps of the pool. The video with AJ is amazing.
Above - AJ with another nice brown.
Below - Dave working in tight to the willows to pick off the fish in a cramped pocket.
Above - Dave after hooking in to the fish in the pocket, no chance of landing that one.
Below - A beautiful pool with a ponga fern.
Above - Dave looking for browns.
Below - A stunning run tucked below a big ponga.
Below - AJ sighting a cycling brown in heavier cover.
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