Pop & Scoop

After almost a week of rough fishing on my part, I finally broke through yesterday. I made the perfect cast and the result was a beauty 9lb brown in my hands…not a sea runner, but a beautiful small stream resident fish with golden colors and massive fins. The best part was that Dave came through as my total hero in the moment. I like to give full credit where credit is due in life and he deserves it. Immediately after I hooked up the fish ran into a nasty bankside log jam in deep water and fast current and after digging around the log jam getting himself soaking wet he pulled it out and netted it for me. The kicker was that just as I was pulling the fishes head up to the surface  so he could net it,  the fly popped out of the fishes mouth. The fish seemed to be stunned for a half a second and in that time frame Davie managed to get under it and scoop net it for me. It was one of those, “I can’t believe that just happened” moments. I was beyond happy. My skills as a fisher had shone in that moment…great cast, perfect hook set and my best foot forward in trying to fight it and then to top it all off, we had a together moment in bringing it to the net. 

I love you babe.

Oh and as an aside…there was no fff that came out of my mouth this time....(an inside joke for my kiwi friends!)